Heaven Write Poems

These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...


Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for...

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I write only for you,
Not for the king, so smart,
Not for Paris,
Not for the mirrors of the sky,
I only write for you.

I do not write...

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POEMS ABOUT POETS IX

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch

a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!
@mikerburch



Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael...

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#A Nod To My MOTHER Who LOVED Her BLACKEYE PEAS. "So Do I", If Cooked GOOD..."YES PLEASE!" A GREAT "B" LETTER FOOD...
BROCCOLI 
BOK CHOY 
BERRIES...

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It takes a lot of tricks to write a good poem
It's not easy to understand the theorem
The magic, the divine essence of being a Poet
These...

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Unwritten, the words
Pour from her heart, her soul
In gentle whispers, a touch
Thoughts kissing away all the lost,
The darkness and doubt, bleeding
Hope into the poetry she...

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I feel free like a dove,
so peaceful as can be 
and the sound of silence
is like music to my ears.
As I glaze up to heaven,
all...

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When I stare at the empty page,
And it just stares back at me, unimpressed
By my inspirations, my feelings, my prayers,
All the whimsical imaginings, creative
Thoughts, poems...

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The Angel of Death skims blacker than tar
A skeletal knock overturning a bowl of oats
Smelling of frankincense and ashes
To carry you to a yellow field...

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The smile..

Only that

Twice

An eating place

A goodbye

Smile..

Fading..

Etched......

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The Write

I yawn and stretch. 
I dare to pray... realizing 
it would always be
the best course. 
The smell of coffee 
is pungent on the air....

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The Girls

Perfumed and groomed, 
ribbons in their hair, so fair, 
they are beautiful... 
to me. 

Shorty, she is the clever hound, 
that knows how to...

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Ticks and Chimes

The pictures on the walls, 
and in my books...
are all that I have, 
from yesterday, 
to remember you by, 
and all those that...

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Political Pie

Each day I rise, 
in the free country, America. 
I want to call it the USA... 
"United", but we are not. 
We have not...

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Journey
Did you know that mankind is on a Journey?
When one is born they are on a Journey. They come to the Garden of Life on...

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