Fleetness Poems - Poems about Fleetness

...'Time's restless surrender is but a charade, tender and giving, but meant to dissuade'...by poet If Time has its way, we must surrender to each moment passing swiftly beyond But my preference i......Read the rest...

...LOVE POEMS II These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations......Read the rest...

...The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth by Michael R. Burch When I was closest to love, it did not seem real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness it might dissolve in my mouth like a lo......Read the rest...

...Where Does the Butterfly Go? by Michael R. Burch for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba Where does the butterfly go when lightning rails, when thunder howls, when hailstones......Read the rest...

...She was kinder than light to an up-reaching flower and sweeter than rain to the bees in their bower where anemones blush at the affections they shower, and love’s shocking power. She shocked......Read the rest...

...Moccasins crunching on crusted snow, wolf-fur hood warming what I breathe, jogging with lance and tomahawk, other friends spread out, left and right. The wapiti run before us, big elk, eight o......Read the rest...

...Famished and flagging footsoldiers; facing fatigue, fitful fever, faeces and foul, foetid fungi. Fostering feelings, frustrated, for this faraway, foreign field. Forays so fraught with fine fa......Read the rest...

...Famished and flagging footsoldiers; formerly fitters and farmers. Facing fatigue, fitful fever, faeces and foul, foetid fungi. Fostering feelings, frustrated, for this faraway, foreign field. ......Read the rest...

...Should a caveman or woman accidentally wander into our time zone, He or she would feel right at home, With their keen ear easily able to interpret our not-so-subtle Grunts, And groans. Their good......Read the rest...

...White Lilacs Memories rise like the scent of lilacs in the air simple yet fragrant filled with now forgotten cares, once so important nothing could contain them as life hurried fo......Read the rest...

...Fire of the Forrest Dragon I foretold the coming storm The signs so plainly warn Like sparks floating amongst a darkening night The earthen moistures and cool air descending My conjecture obs......Read the rest...

...Her opponents on the court Must battle inner quaking In anticipation of the shots That she will soon be making. Watching her attack the ball Is so intimidating, I would hate to be the one Across the......Read the rest...

...Among Solomon’s first love commands in the book of his Song of Songs, He adjures the young maidens by the gazelle, and how charm makes them strong. For the gazelle is a gorgeous creature with beau......Read the rest...

...Dear Lord You have seen fit To bestow on us this year The beauty in the morning sun The fleetness of a deer. The majesty of the rolling plain The ......Read the rest...