Wife Teenage Poems

I'm okay, 
you're okay is a mask in the land of pretend.
Children say what they feel,
their honestly can bubble over.
Little ones have not learned words...

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Many years ago,
girls wore girdles.
The tight uncomfortable things,
they held one in tight.
One summer's night,
I snuck my girlfriend out.
We were off on a double date,
a night...

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When Dena and her girlfriend sneaked out of their houses at night, they both
would go and meet boys that they met during the daytime and...

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"Tangled Web of Love: A Broken Trust Unveiled"

In the realm of shattered hearts and broken trust,
A tale unfolds, emotions 
turned to dust.
A man named ...

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This worm is proud to be green,                  ...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems XII

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed...

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I’ve got a thirteen year old
His name is Jack
Never does what he’s told
He always answers back
He won’t go to school
He always tells lies
He thinks he’s...

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My memories provide a time machine -
I shut my eyes, through time I quickly fly.
I'm taken back to when I was thirteen
to navigate the maze...

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Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving...

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Layered Cake pt 2

Further afield I met a gangster in Liverpool who was alrite
He liked a right tear up and had a job to appear...

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Layered Cake pt 1
I’ve known many unsavory characters from my home city of Manchester 
There’s the ex-demolition guy who took a great dislike to me
Did...

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"HETTIE'S CONVOLUTED CONTENT"


the main character was in 
a relationship with a woman in 
the movie we were watching.
the girlfriend of that same 
man went out...

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I lived in the early-mid 70s so very different
being a lonely soul not socially active
lived  in the countryside with not a friend
didn't really mind...

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OH NO! I’m late for school
I’m in trouble now.
I’ve broken the rules.
I sit in my class try to stay awake.
Eyes are heavy, I begin to...

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7/10/2018
I used to think a mother was just somebody who made babies
I used to think if I made one, my child would save me.

They'd tell...

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