Ocean Assonance Poems

You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing  
   I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer...

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The waves&her

Along the waves she ambles 
Prevailing the ocean elysian 
The longing feel of a hiraeth 
Sensual, her cheeks aflush; An inamorata. 
She gently rubs...

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there’s a place in time, I wander
There’s a space in my mind I wonder
Often do I wonder, how will I git there
This there the feeling...

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Amidst the craggy heights, where granite kisses sky, There dwells a voice, a tempest’s cry, A soul aflame, a melody unbound, Glenn Hughes, the Voice...

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Oh, she's beautiful 
She , the only girl who left me, mesmerized .
I sat and watched as she brushed her long
golden hair. She smiled politely...

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Mirabelle orb ascends,
under clementine and pomegranate skies.

Absent,
in delight of daylight.
Eyes set adrift in dawning daydreams.

Calm heart is an oceanic concerto,
flowing along sapphire tones.
Deep breaths walk...

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Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the...

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Healing fast and getting rust
Quickly living & turning to dust
Nothing compares to you just
believe me your truth is a must


Creeping plants know it's cost
How then...

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from there canopy of cadence love
 hear the pardon of mint perfume
 vessel with a unique place swept
 the innate liver soon to be discovered
...

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O Fingernail Moon
				have you sent us Morning Sun
				to show us building?

				And Morning Sun
				are you sliding 
				down the mountainside
				to hint at pyramids,
				how to build them,
				before you...

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O Fingernail Moon
			pointing down at the ocean
			what goddess clipped you?

			O clipped fingernail
			without your acute reply
			can I scratch mind’s itch?

			Scratch may be:
			the swipe to light the...

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An Odd Bird
  
   The seagull and I were flying over the Andes.
   the mountain was brown, and we saw...

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I cross the rain through the desert storms;
I never cry, I shall not shed a tear;
I swim through ocean waters pour;
I never cry, I shed...

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A lovely night beneath the stars
   with ocean waves glazed by the moon;
nearby, the music of guitars
   strums soft, a melancholy...

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MINUANETTA

Minuanetta I do, with mine eye see
My Savior Christ on the tree
In my view, my vison, my vision
In my thoughts I see Jesus crying
Minuanetta I...

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