In a Romania of shadows, where the dream crumbled
...In a Romania of shadows, where the dream crumbled under the weight of history,
Under the leaden sky, our hopes broke and departed in silence,
A nation mourns its soul with tears hidden deep within ...
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Categories:
unappeased, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Children's Poem VIII
...Children's Poems VII
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sailing to My Grandfather, for Georg...
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Categories:
unappeased, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Within Wind and Water
...Written: August 26, 2023
Personification Of The Elements Sponsored by: Miranda Hawley
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I hear the echoes of ...
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Categories:
unappeased, adventure, analogy, water, wind,
Form: Personification
Wave and Shore
...I am a wave.
From far I come to you
Swimming with desire.
In wild curls I come,
Riding with music,
Travelling on sunbeams.
Within my hidden folds,
I carry the thoughts of love,
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Categories:
unappeased, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Quench
..."I quest for a return to the unappeased joys of my sweet past"- By Poet
Quench my thirst to get back to my past
When tame pigeons of joy nested on my eaves
And I could hear their crooni...
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Categories:
unappeased, adventure, childhood, joy,
Form: Free verse
Hell
...Unsatisfied sighs
Puff the heart of avarice
-It’s illusive mist
Restlessness pursues
The golden deer- happiness,
But greed is mirage
The unappeased minds
Hug the wicked schemes always
-Bl...
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Categories:
unappeased, fire, howl,
Form: Haiku
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Ii
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
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Categories:
unappeased, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children
...Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes....
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Categories:
unappeased, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Family Poems
...Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "mu...
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Categories:
unappeased, child, childhood, family, father,
Form: Rhyme
Perhaps I Lacked Gold and Diamond
...Perhaps apples were fewer in the bowl
Perhaps you needed still further tints
Whatever I emptied my whole almirah
Nothing was left in the blood and flesh
It was a dream we started from
Doesn't ...
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Categories:
unappeased, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Worms In the Fruit of God
...Are we, yea, the worms in the fruit that twas God's,
We that hollow out hills mining rock, stone and clods,
We that heap up the fill into mountainous wastes
Until nothing is left
Until nothing is...
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Categories:
unappeased, allusion, analogy, confusion, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Plant Unmasked
...As wings of butterflies dance upon a vision
So curious about this pretty deadly bunch
Flowers of aesthetically blending colors
Sweet misted scent of a deep rainbow shrouded in
Rows and columns...
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Categories:
unappeased, color, faith, flower, light,
Form: Free verse
The Vamp Who Chickened Out
...Soft fingered winds caressed my neck
Kissed my breast supine
Brushed the tip of my nose
Rolled my hair like twine.
Tickled up and down my thigh
Lightly touched my feet
As I lay on my neighbo...
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Categories:
unappeased, allusion, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Invitation To the Grave
...Father, grandfather, great-grandfather
I’ve heard your cry
Far from the dungeon
Inviting me to the tearless
Where my plights would be addressed
But you know father,
I can’t come n...
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Categories:
unappeased, imagination
Form: Imagism
A Penalty For August
...While the ancients sleep drunken dreams
in an August haze of torpor,
reheated by a relentless sun,
when the grills and water torches light up
the night with feasts of raucous laughter,
the seale...
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Categories:
unappeased, nature
Form: Free verse
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