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Thrummed Poems - Poems about Thrummed

Premium Member a quiet carol
... ghosts … of Christmases past wander through this disconsolate house weary but hearty hearts that once thrummed, eager and one their echoes … soft-whispering me of what’s imperfectly precio......

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Categories: thrummed, analogy, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surf Usurped
... Hitchhiking by blurred station generic Gypsy Flora slips anonymous, gravel Grinds her heart of garbage, barbaric Buried skeleton stirred, further travel Ticket to Keep It Secret Scarred i......

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Categories: thrummed, allusion, deep, environment, farewell,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member but a shell
... ghosts … peek every corner these walls were the vessel of a family - the body of a progenic spirit that inhabited these bones of wood and plaster and glass … and hope for nearly four tens o......

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Categories: thrummed, analogy, home, house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member precious little shadows
... I never knew you ... yet you were mine - mine as completely as any other that ever drew breath or dreamed a dream on this unforgiving orb … "The Choice" ... THAT choice, was never ou......

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Categories: thrummed, analogy, child, children, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Open Shut Case
...I was an experienced interior designer, whose specialty was outer doors, Ever opening to amber sunshine, as petals open, when vivid beams pour. Functionality and beauty were very vital, s......

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Categories: thrummed, fantasy, flower, imagery, lost,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Be Mine
...I sit by the window motionless Looking at the sky getting darker Inside me a sea swells, tides of memories Beat my heart, the only keepsake I have. Like a thick shelled oyster, tightly sp......

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Categories: thrummed, angst, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At the Other Side of Light
...Out on the the highway I was, in those apricot days of August. I was returning from a vacation, and the birdsong was raucous. My car had made the long journey, without any issues at all, Like su......

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Categories: thrummed, color, dark, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Poems About Icarus
...Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite... What do you know of the world’s despair, gli......

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Categories: thrummed, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easyspeak
...so ... demanding she told me to stop to stop 'thinking like a poet' ... but what the hell did that mean?!? she added unto, thusly - 'stop creating Tolkein worlds' (verbatim) that hit home ... ......

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Categories: thrummed, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I) Flight by Michael R. Burch It is the nature of loveliness to vanish as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness seek transcendence... ......

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Categories: thrummed, angel, animal, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
...Poems about Butterflies and Bees Flight by Michael R. Burch It is the nature of loveliness to vanish as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness seek transcendence... Album b......

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Categories: thrummed, animal, butterfly, flying, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-Lx
...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......

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Categories: thrummed, dream, flower, hair, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Seldom Did They Burn
...On frozen lands Did our home lie Its chimney full of smoke And heat inside Kept us alive While our father spoke Come here children Gather around And hear what I must say It’s cold outside ......

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Categories: thrummed, child, courage, death, family,
Form: I do not know?
Flight 93
...Flight 93 by Michael R. Burch I held the switch in trembling fingers, asked why existence felt so small, so purposeless, like a minnow wriggling feebly in my grasp ... vibrations of huge eng......

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Categories: thrummed, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me
...Would you still love me ... perchance I was half a man? My carnal, physical core torn from me like ragged raiment, Off to war in courage and heroic sacrifice ... Returned by God......

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Categories: thrummed, analogy, love, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse

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