Unaccountably Poems - Poems about Unaccountably

...These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost... Sinking by Michael R. Burch for Virginia Wool......

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...The idea of a living constitution has the same forensic indeterminacy as a committed dream. I am content to trust this dream to the end to have it fill my cup of hope all day and night. I am c......

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...Juvenilia: Early Poems IX These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college. Shock by Michael R. Burch It was early in the......

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...LOVE POEMS II These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations......

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...Burn, Ovid by Michael R. Burch “Burn Ovid”—Austin Clarke Sunday School, Faith Free Will Baptist, 1973: I sat imagining watery folds of pale silk encircling her waist. Explicit sex was the ......

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...Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood bachelorhoodwinked by Michael R. Burch u are charming & disarming, but mostly ALARMING since my resolve dissolved! * Disconcerted by Michael R. Burc......

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...Where Does the Butterfly Go? by Michael R. Burch for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba Where does the butterfly go when lightning rails, when thunder howls, when hailstones......

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...The Eager Traveler by Ahmad Faraz translation by Michael R. Burch Even in the torture chamber, I was the lucky one; When each lottery was over, unaccountably I had won. And even the mighties......

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...Last Night by Faiz Ahmed Faiz translation by Michael R. Burch Last night, your memory stole into my heart as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens as morning breezes revive dormant d......

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...To presume to write to someone about courage and not complaining, don't importune or make dying people cry. I've always said Leave me alone with autumn. Don't stand around my bed, I won't be in it......

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...My belly of thoughts clings to my backbone Never hungry, always starving of poetry Which can not exactly capture your spotlessness Mama learned me this knowledge of nature: A full stomach of ideas su......

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...If it were all a dream water would flow through from the sea to the earth And where earth meets the waters mighty crest a shore would stand If it were all a dream time would move unaccountably Like ......

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...You know she missed her period and she missed graduation, And she missed those wedding bells. And her daddy’s shot-gun missed the boy next door— Where he’s gone nobody can tell. It’s a simple ope......

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...did you know in the fog, the secrets coil in each reaching tendril floating in the ephemeral pause, caressing me knowledge enveloped within peaceful contemplation quiet word-games of hidden w......

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