Heaven Aubade Poems

Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A single white rose bloomed near the grave stone,
Swaying in breeze against dark cloud and rain,
In the vast churchyard she stood all alone,
To brighten resting...

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You ...

are the breath of heaven,
          an exhalation of the divine ire ...
   ...

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I'd rather take nice deeds for granted
than not believe in Heaven
And make the others feel their shame
when lost comparing devon

That I am lost for seeing...

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Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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Passionate One
by Michael R. Burch
 
for Beth
 
Love of my life,
light of my morning,
arise brightly dawning,
for you are my sun.
 
Give me of heaven
both manna...

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Love me, love me not. Doves flew; kneeled. 
Breaths of flaunting daisies yield. 
Across the narrow Irish loch, a leaven 
Bed of grassy emerald field;...

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(a hypothetical poem if the wicked were to win)

When the wicked claim their Heaven
they'll yay with exaltation.
As they praise their tasks forgiven
for their right at...

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(for Scarlets of the world)

Scarlet was born in a house of ill repute.
She learnt early how to use lipsticks, and
Dreams never visited her.

Enslaved by carnivorous...

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We've met many years had passed;
Li'l things of me you'd asked.
Our minds might forget;
But our hearts will always remember.
 
In the drastic change of time;
Impedes...

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The daylight's darkness drops again,
The wind looses its controlling brain
And the dust protest in Peaceful anger
Thunder whispers banger
Hopeless than a motioned train
A droplet of a...

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The stoner mind is simple and blind,

the stoner signs are waved jovial and wide,

the stoner wine is drunk slowly with puckered lips-

with savored bliss,

'can I...

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