Snow Teenage Poems

Some seasons are amazing
Some seasons always stink
Some seasons are mostly known for a drink
Fall is just boring
Mainly from that school
There’s no swimming at the swimming...

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footnotes

im tryina finish another 20 page chapbook

this is the first part of 2 of what i got so far because its too long for 1

then...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII

These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student. 

Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch

Starlit...

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These are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade. 

as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch

yesterday i dreamed...

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Loose Magic

Pee-a-boo, I see you...
Got your nose, 
and not your toes. 
Skipping rocks, 
and bubbles in the park. 

Eye contact from across the room, 
notes...

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Spaghetti

The meat, 
the cheese,
the sauce.

The smiles,
the laughs,
the wine.

The music, 
the song, 
the moment... 

The vow of forever!

Then...

You and I, 
and the garlic bread!



A. Foster, Ann...

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The Cat

It is late, 
nearly half-past nine. 
You are asleep beside me.
The clock on the wall is too loud. 
I need to buy another. 
This...

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Questions

What defines... success?
Is it how many people you know. 
Is it where you have been, 
or where you will go? 

Is it who you talk...

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U

It is cool here. 
Is it hot there?
You have not written. 
I have not received...
a letter.

Do you think of me?
I remember you. 
I can not...

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She stood on the jetty
Salt water in her eye,
The past said ‘hello’
The future; ‘goodbye’.

Hundreds and thousands,
The colour of snow,
Seeds of bad bullying,
No time could un-sow.

Teased...

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My boyfriend has informed me 
That I don’t know what irony is
Because I make bad jokes
That don’t make sense to anybody but me.
Sometimes, not even...

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Arrived is now Spring,
The scents of flowers 
scattered in the fields 
Awaken feelings of sleeping children.

Here, the breeze that goes 
Between flowering almonds.

There, weeping of...

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Hair Everywhere

Hair Everywhere

Every part of my body looks rather shoddy because it’s covered with hair
   There isn’t a place, even my face, that...

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at once i thought 
i loved another
but then you bought
my heart to smother. 
and now i know
i've fallen hard
just like the snow
in my front yard....

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Out to the bleacher
We were drawn
By sun burning down,
Melting stubborn
White snow mounds,
While the girls
Still with wintry-pale legs
Trotted the bases
Or lowered to grateful grass
In the broad...

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