Sonnet Visionary Poems

Sensation of Light (Linking Pin Sonnet)

Like a Venus flytrap, you swayed in the night
Night raising the mind's trace of soft flowing light
Light of fragrance as...

Read More

The Life Of A Valiant Knight In King Arthur's Court

There within the postern side of a hairy night
Fumbled the great hero with his sharpened sword...

Read More

Love is a gift that comes from God above
Wings of a cherubim or a cupid's arrows
Love is so majestic and beautiful like a dove
Or better...

Read More

Five hundred twenty million light-years far
from Earth a meld of galaxies has spread
its multi-arms wide open ‘midst the star
Orion cluster in its wedded thread.
With limbs...

Read More

Leading The Way With Your Blessed Amazing Grace!
Inspiring blessed God: "Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
Inter-connectedness of the most gracious Triune Creator of...

Read More

The Whirlpool Galaxy of grand-design,
a stately spiral with companion small,
once held to be in gravity’s confine
of greater galaxy’s imposing sprawl,
is shown in sharpest image ever...

Read More

No success is won 
without a good attitude demonstrate.
when constant doubts come 
Negative actions demonstrate 

Courage arrives if the waves are high
From the crown that...

Read More

World is dead tonight -
A single burn flame alive-
Just till the sunshine, 
no more hope- Our Sun ain't bright -  
keep alive-Keep alive!

Nostalgia from...

Read More

Where, O' Where Baby Did You Hide That Key


Where, O' where baby did you hide that key
THAT UNLOCKS THIS RUSTY CHAIN HOLDING ON ME
Is behind...

Read More

In this Ordinary Swoon
by Michael R. Burch

In this ordinary swoon
as I pass from life to death,
I feel no heat from the cold, pale moon;
I feel...

Read More

Music drifts down into the dim allies 
A rhythm tune coming from every home.
Filled with the laughter of broken voices.
Like waves rollicking with the sound.
...

Read More

MICHELANGELO TRANSLATIONS

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He and his fellow Florentine, Leonardo da Vinci, were rivals...

Read More

Do not fear the war now.
Nor the battles we have won.
What matters most, we don't know? 
The things that are yet to come.

Gloom may drag...

Read More

O'Bright Star, Thy Bright Gleamings True Hearts See

O'Bright star! will thy gleam this sad heart sate
    with splendor of glow, quench our...

Read More

Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

Read More