Eagled Poems - Poems about Eagled

...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION Singularity by Michael R. Burch Are scientists confounded like the ostrich? Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!* This universe, so magical, ......Read the rest...

...The sun's flames lick my back and burn the outer crust; warm my hidden bones. I see the orange glow behind closed eyes, as the rays fall across my face and dance up and down my body. I want t......Read the rest...

...Le gommier de la Municipalite - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Municipal Gum Tree by T Wignesan [Automatic re-translation into English edited for effect...] Le gommier qui se trouve sur......Read the rest...

...These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations … Will There Be Starlight by Michael R. Burch Will there be starlight to......Read the rest...

...her mind drifted over the alluvial landscape covered a few sink holes and seeped quick sand from a life built on dense sediment and erosion she had never asked for much but now she was fir......Read the rest...

...Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite... What do you know of the world’s despair, gli......Read the rest...

...the bridge he needed to cross was overgrown with tangled thicket’s brush ragwort and giant hogweed littered the pernicious path to his own progress of perspectives and the slow death from stag......Read the rest...

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I) Flight by Michael R. Burch It is the nature of loveliness to vanish as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness seek transcendence... ......Read the rest...

...Maurice the frog was q###r; of this he had no doubt and all the lady frogs just made him yawn. He sat all day on his lily pad, flicking his tongue at passing flies, with never a thought of ever want......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems V Distances by Michael R. Burch There is a small cleanness about her, as though she has always just been washed, and there is a dull obedience to convention in her accommo......Read the rest...

...Sonnets XC-XCVII Artificial Smile by Michael R. Burch I’m waiting for my artificial teeth to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub between cle......Read the rest...

...Rejection Slips With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here ar......Read the rest...

...Southern Icarus by Michael R. Burch Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace you climb, skittish kite ... What do you know of the world’s despair, gli......Read the rest...

...Nashville and Andromeda by Michael R. Burch I have come to sit and think in the darkness once again. It is three a.m.; outside, the world sleeps . . . How nakedly now and unadorned the surro......Read the rest...

...Limericks III - Grab Bag Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars: Of Tetley’s and V-2's (or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits") by Michael R. Burch The......Read the rest...