Childhood Waltz Poems

EARLY POEMS XXI - JUVENILIA

Dance With Me
by Michael R. Burch

(circa age 18)

Dance with me
to the fiddles’ plaintive harmonies.
Enchantingly,
each highstrung string,
each yearning key,
each a thread within...

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She wore thick leggings
our childhood polio albatross
mass Sabin vaccine sauce
body snatcher ritual
fixed beautiful legs.

(In early elementary school she wore braces most of the way through...

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My heart remembers
Collecting fireflies in jars
With cousins I loved
We shared these twinkling sparks, lights
Of vibrant, dancing spirits




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A
prayer
I
say for
you today.
I pray
for
your health
peacefulness
angels to watch
over you.
My love
I
give you.
May God be
with you
each
waking
day.


Date Written: 6/13/2021

1 Place

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Ballroom dances delight in rain,
While humdrum glances from windowpane.
Years passed, two scores plus some,
Destroy not, my childhood fun.
Amusement possesses nary a care.
Paltry peasants can don...

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A Christmas Waltz Wave

     A
Candy
  Cain,
    
    along
with Apples
and sweet
sweet    ...

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When my daughter was a little girl we used to play a game
It really had no structure and it never had a name
But every time...

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The cowboy took her in his arms
and waltzed her round the floor.
He told her how much he loved her
how he couldn't love her more.

From the...

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