Winter Usa Poems

days dry as can be
rain are you hiding from me
clouds I need to see...

Read More

These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

Read More

This winter ....
 
Is more white like the top of the highest mountain
Is more colder and harsh than ever
The blizzards are cruel and ruthless
The roads...

Read More

Europe won't survive a cold winter
  Israel's and Saudi's ties to us grow thinner
Latin America now under communism's spell
  Iran, India, Turkey among...

Read More

The United States of America needs secure southern boundaries but obviously not according to the current Biden/Harris administration. The Democrats seem to be oblivious to...

Read More

Wintery mix
Asthma inducing air
Windchill is fourteen below

Ice under snow
Cars doing donuts
Skidding across freeways

Seeing your breath
Wheezing kicks in
Cheeks pink and frozen

Middle of the USA
Iowa Kansas Nebraska
Frozen...

Read More

Haiku of this storm

(2/10/21, for Jim)

 February ice fear
forecasts no motion —
a tear starts its fall


pup’s eyes plead
with her legs splayed — 
deck wood freezes...

Read More

Bunyan and blue Babe
water crossing through water
pine scent combs Paul’s beard
U.S. curling capital
stalks of sunflowers
fanboy sun towards heaven
logger’s cold sets in
hard Winter in the North...

Read More

Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
 
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we...

Read More

Various Heresies 3

Breakings
by Michael R. Burch

I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a...

Read More

First they came for the Muslims

after Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came...

Read More

In June of seventeen seventy-eight
General Clinton led British troops north,
forced to abandon Philadelphia,
he now marched leisurely for New York.

He knew American troops shadowed him,
and he...

Read More

Yes, I love beer
And beer loves me,
We’re as thick as thieves
As honey is to bees.

I can’t help but wonder
What life would be
Without this golden amber,
Not...

Read More

A culture steeped in retribution
becomes blind to freedom's contributions
accessed best through healing restorations,
trust,
virtual stuff
for democracies most resilient.

A society resisting love's innovative brilliance
comic and jazzy improvising...

Read More

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west...

Read More