Palely Poems - Poems about Palely

...Birthday Poem to Myself by Michael R. Burch LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence, Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous, but come! Come live among us; come dwell again, happy child among men— m......Read the rest...

... "I have built my foundation with life's bricks; I exist. I am me. And that has been enough. " Quote by_ Constance My character traits defin......Read the rest...

... "I have built my foundation with life's bricks; I exist. I am me. And that has been enough. " Quote by_ Constance My character traits define ......Read the rest...

...FREE VERSE VI Reason Without Rhyme by Michael R. Burch I used to be averse to free verse, but now I admit YOUR rhyming is WORSE! But alas, in the end, it’s all the same: all verse is u......Read the rest...

...A dying face in static pose appears like palely marbled stone. In bed its normal, I suppose, that snowy flesh has milky bone The falling flakes that feel for air or wander lost in foreign la......Read the rest...

...THIS WORLD OF DEW This world? Moonlit dew flicked from a crane's bill. —Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Seventy-one? How long can a dewdrop last? ......Read the rest...

...As long its walk, moist o'erhangs This way, that, joint-wended; As long, you, chill-wetted through Have, of it, re-stated: "I doubt this late winter day Of dullness, redeemably In a brightnes......Read the rest...

...LOVE POEMS I by Michael R. Burch These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, a first date and dating, a first crush, a first girlfri......Read the rest...

...Day, and Night by Michael R. Burch The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters; her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms. And we who rise each day to grind a living, dream each scented nig......Read the rest...

...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX Day, and Night by Michael R. Burch The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters; her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms. And we who rise each day to grind a living, ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Winter by Michael R. Burch The rose of love's bright promise lies torn by her own thorn; her scent was sweet but at her feet the pallid aphids mourn. The lilac of devotion has felt the wi......Read the rest...

...Advice to Young Poets by Nicanor Parra Sandoval loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Youngsters, write however you will in your preferred style. Too much blood flowed under th......Read the rest...

...The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo by Michael R. Burch For all that I remembered, I forgot her name, her face, the reason that we loved... and yet I hold her close within my thought......Read the rest...

...The Seashore Gathering by Rabindranath Tagore loose translation by Michael R. Burch On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge. The infinite sky is motionless, the restless w......Read the rest...