Anonymous Words Poems

Widsith was a traveling minstrel who "sang for his supper" but may have been prone to exaggeration...

Widsith, the Far-Traveler, Part I of III
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon...

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From Genes to Brains to Books
Lap in words from these Brooks

Pan ideas heavy to swirl analysis
There, assimilate your anonymous

Fill your Mind to cast first Editions
Emulate...

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The Plump needs Enduring Exercise 
To Excess Weight shed and check size, 
I tell you: need to questions ask
For a just confronted task;
Navigator’s Compass arrange
For...

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Surprisingly wrapped
The Gift
Bows of elegancy
Ribbons overflowing
Beautiful, amazed
In a daze
The gift.


Diamonds, Pearls
All types of gifts
Secretly anonymous
The lid is lifted.


Priceless
She speaks
Oh my, the gift.


Later noted
As the days...

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Zealousness prevails to amass knowledge
lifequest nsync toward expansive lexicon
extant since yours truly kneehigh toddler
inquisitive mind fired passion to steep me
within inexhaustible voluminous treasure
trove housing increasing...

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Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems

The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990...

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The mind is an amazing  thing
it's a storehouse of much data
but you can control what gets in there
if it's empty you couldn't have a...

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Poems about Poems (I)



What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both...

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Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged...

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I've woven fantasies in poetic verse
with the fragile threads of hope and feeling.
And I explore laughter, tears, and remorse
with words of wisdom, prayer, and healing.

Hyperbole...

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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...

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1/21/19
"OAT"
I was wrong to quit
It's been too long I admit
Was gone a bit
On a trip
Putting down lagers quick
Now I'm back with a stronger grip
Deep down...

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Zealousness prevails to amass knowledge
lifequest nsync toward expansive lexicon
extant since yours truly kneehigh toddler
inquisitive mind fired passion to steep me
within inexhaustible voluminous treasure
trove housing increasing...

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"50 Words for Poe: Immaculate"




Love Immaculate
Souls now in sync
Souls merge in time
Powerful Immaculate

Hunger comes fast
Hunger for Love Immaculate
Hunger for Pure
The Power to Be

The Power to...

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"50 Words for Poe: Rouge"



Rouge, sweet stains
the bleeding mouth of the brain
Green poison from 
the tongue of envy a postal note from Hell

Rouge makes a...

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