Tors Poems - Poems about Tors

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 4: BIRTH/EVOLUTION Simultaneous Flight by Michael R. Burch *The number of possible connections [brain] cells can make exceeds the number of particles in the universe. — Ger......Read the rest...

...Oh, give me a home where majestic buffalo roam, Where antelope graze and rushing streams foam! A place where snow-capped mountains reach for the sky, And gentle winds waft through blue spruce with......Read the rest...

...Juvenilia: Early Poems VII These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager. The Leveler by Michael R. Burch The nature of Nature is bitter survival from Winter’s bleak fury till......Read the rest...

...To the legendary teacher I pay tribute For imparting live voices to the mute You paid gratitude To the multitude On the mountain top you stood And all the heads understood You never said ‘Never......Read the rest...

...All across these scattered shining isles, Framed inside a bright clasp of sapphire sea, A softly persuasive wind that so beguiles, Reaching gently out, thusly prevails unto me. And in that wind t......Read the rest...

...I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style, where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile. Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by … comforts of the......Read the rest...

...Methinks all antediluvian Love was Whiter than snows atop higher tors; And with more troth dudes did kiss Purer maidens for pleasanter bliss. I deem Art shortly after Noah’s Ark To have been o......Read the rest...

... HAIKU & TWO SENRYU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ white sky... low the clouds winter... stuck in a drift again spring... where are you... ~~~ the bobbin dipper flies below our secret rivers ......Read the rest...

...TEMPEST Twin limestone tors thrust up through valley floor Like isles or icebergs in a calm flat sea Deep green save where shear rock can hold no spore To spawn in fecund niche a vine or tree ......Read the rest...

...Springing free from glistening Fronds The summers heat leaps for Height; Whilst drifting obscurely far Above A distant lark now hangs in Flight. Floats down his sweet trill, Accompanie......Read the rest...

...Moorland mist rising over gritstone tors Climbers exposed on sheer Edges......Read the rest...

...I know I’ve made a thousand journeys, withstood the tests of time and foe shed the dust and shouldered worries struggled onward against the flow. Unconforming, seldom bending straight the path......Read the rest...

...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall... But stars do not cry. Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing besides a Dragons Hill; It was here that a Roundhea......Read the rest...

...Eternal granite, crystalline scree, agates, boulders, rise to hills, towering tors,* mutinous mountains, endlessly growing rising, lifted, then toppled by the fiery rebirth of draconic lava** L......Read the rest...

...Ah, disperse, dissolve, deploy, aqua vitae, all through the depth of primal forest rise, turn the shades of green toward blue-gray. Soften shades of purple shadows, disguise, and bath the chill ......Read the rest...