Cochlea Poems - Poems about Cochlea

...A lazy-daisy dewdrop spell, Reflective in a blade - Grass-green and sunny eyes do dwell. Beyond the dawn, a quick farewell. The subtleness - not much to wade. Sun burns and splash, does ......

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...These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ... The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand by Michael R. Burch “Dust to dust ...” I stumbled, aghast, into a valley of dust and bone w......

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...i hear you daybreak do you flutter to each home ~ cochlea visits 1/22/2021......

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...Poems about Things that Break I These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi......

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...Poems about Children V Pan by Michael R. Burch Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves Once there were paths that led to coracles that clung to ......

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...Regret by Michael R. Burch Regret, a bitter ache to bear . . . once starlight languished in your hair . . . a shining there as brief as rare. Regret . . . a pain I chose to bear ......

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...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......

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...Sonnet: Second Sight (II) by Michael R. Burch (Newborns see best at a distance of 8 to 14 inches.) Wiser than we know, the newborn screams, red-faced from breath, and wonders what life means ......

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...Sonnets XVII-XXIV Discrimination by Michael R. Burch The meter I had sought to find, perplexed, was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose. I found it in sheet music, in long rows......

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...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'......

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...I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room. The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces. This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator. But I’ve g......

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...Uther’s Last Battle by Michael R. Burch When Uther, the High King, unable to walk, borne upon a litter went to fight Colgrim, the Saxon King, his legs were weak, and his visage bitter. “Where......

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...911 Carousel by Michael R. Burch “And what rough beast ... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”—W. B. Yeats They laugh and do not comprehend, nor ask which way the wind is blowing, no, nor......

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...Bubble by Michael R. Burch Love— fragile, elusive— ­ if held too closely cannot withstand the inter ruption of......

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...The Strange Truces of King Arthur by Michael R. Burch Artur took Cabal, his hound, and Carwennan, his knife, and his sword forged by Wayland and Merlyn, his falcon, and, saying goodbye to his......

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