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Best Cædmon Poems

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Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Pier

I remember watching 
the ocean roll on the shore,
wave after wave, 
crashing down on the solid sand
and I idly staring back
wondering if the...

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Categories: cædmon, sociallight, history, light,
Form: Prose Poetry



Caedmon's Hymn
Caedmon's Hymn
by Michael R. Burch

At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,

while the...

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Categories: cædmon, angel, christian, god, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Various Heresies 5
Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples,...

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Categories: cædmon, creation, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Verse
Caedmon's Face
Caedmon’s Face
by Michael R. Burch

At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,

while the...

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Categories: cædmon, angel, christian, england, old,
Form: Verse
Poems About Poets Iv
Poems about Poets IV



The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for June Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on life,
who did not flinch from Death,...

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Categories: cædmon, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



At Caedmon's Grave
At Cædmon’s Grave
At Caedmon's Grave
by Michael R. Burch

“Cædmon’s Hymn,” composed at the Monastery of Whitby (a North Yorkshire fishing village), is one of the oldest...

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Categories: cædmon, angel, bible, christian, england,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things