Remind Me Lord How Blessed I Am
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Remind me, Lord, how blessed I am!
I have no disease, from which to fear.
Nor, do I live to be a winning poet!
I am just average, and I do know it.
A family outstanding, fills my heart ...
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Categories:
varsity, faith, family, god, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
In the Playground of Imagination
...As a kid, I had a brilliant plan—
Become a dentist! Be The Man!
White coat, big bucks, drills that whir...
Then I saw my cousin’s clinic—Brrr!
The smell alone could curl your soul,
I n...
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Categories:
varsity, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
A Holiday Tribute to My Grandson
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My Grandson's Toys;Christmas Memories
Dear Edward:
You grew from Little League to be Varsity
star!
Sadly, we rarely see much of one another
anymore.
So Grandma, finds happ...
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Categories:
varsity, christmas, grandmother, grandson, high
Form: Free verse
Destination MLB Birthday Wishes Grandson
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A tall baseball player with a bat, he knocks it clear
out of the park!
Whilst other boys sit so comfortably at their home,
he is a Varsity player, under bright lights, in the dark!
So ...
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Categories:
varsity, baseball, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Verve
...Oh, the 1990's,
songs by Seattle grunge,
and boy band's romanticism.
Daughter was a cheerleader beauty,
blonde effervescence.
Petite strength,
with her smile of enthusiasm,
tossed up in adoles...
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Categories:
varsity, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Her Teenage Dream and Hope
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Spring made this teen, just drool, drool.
Dreaming of the Varsity hero, like a silly fool.
To die, in his ripped, tanned, strong arms.
To be his love, she sighed, a blessed ch...
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Categories:
varsity, boy, crush, cute, dream,
Form: Monorhyme
Map Battle part 1
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In this world, where chaos reigns supreme,
I am the voice of the people, the one who leads the dream.
My heart beats with a passion that cannot be tamed,
I am the fire that ignites t...
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Categories:
varsity, art,
Form: Rhyme
Little Man Grown
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Little Man Grown
8/18/2023
Thirteen years ago, he picked up a ba...
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Categories:
varsity, baseball, boy, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Baseball, Bible and a Boy
...~~ A Grandmother’s Memoirs~~
God, did indeed, more than bless me with jeweled, precious memories.
And a family living so near. That’s no small thing, these days, when you only see family, onc...
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Categories:
varsity, baseball, granddaughter, grandson, love,
Form: Free verse
To Thank You Lord
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For a perfect week, and hoping all poets, shared the same.
It was fun winning honorable mention in
the Musk poetry game.
The day before, was a POTD, and though a novice,
Team Poetry ...
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Categories:
varsity, god, night, poets, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Derivatives With Limits
...Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fal...
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Categories:
varsity, cancer, funny, god, hero,
Form: Free verse
It's Not Byron's Fault, Anyway
...Byron didn't wait for me.
Across the hall Becky tried not to look.
Chalk was everywhere.
Knuckles was already suspended.
Trailing the varsity jackets I
Oscillated between chic and irreverent.
S...
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Categories:
varsity, school,
Form: Acrostic
My Greatest Performance
...This tale of my greatest performance
many may think insufficient and small.
I learned a lesson: Don't give in to chance;
if you want something, give it your all!
This tale occurred way back in ...
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Categories:
varsity, 7th grade, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Lunatic Inside Me Iz a Hen Pecking Noose Hens I
...The majority of mine lxiii years
expended delving deep into imagination,
yours truly escaped, loosed, thwarted...
reality courtesy bookland
roaming cerebral cortex terra firmae
did not amp pu...
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Categories:
varsity, animal, bird, crush, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
...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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Categories:
varsity, boy, child, childhood, high
Form: Rhyme
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