Best Discloses Poems

Crows gather around the mysterious, abandoned castle, 
Its bastions and towers drowning within a mournful silence. 
Ghostly shadows loom within the dungeons and the murder...

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Soul passion is not a simple task. 
This is grasped as a soulful bask,
To reserve one's sound mind and soul,
To your loved ones, but not...

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"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 1)



Liberation
of a sort
head out the car window
hair blowin’ in the breeze
I can hear the Crickets...

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To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh,...

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Darling Afghan grandmother, your weary hands narrates a somber tale
Your bowed head discloses your day by day yearning ail
You have masked your happiness deep under...

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Renee Vivien Translations


Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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Sweet sounds of every day enriching the life

Empty dark lucky enough into your lights

Life looks in the mirror at its crimson strife

Feeling within how the...

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A pant-less lady
liked to go places
she was rather bawdy
and liked to loosen her laces

she was spied by a grandee
he pulled up his braces
then gave her...

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violent power seduces within
moments equipping assurance,
swirling senses of embrace, 
separating 
             circumstances
confusing the...

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Morningstar shining.
Venus discloses brilliance.
Sunrise appearance....

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Love is simple,love is plain.
Will love ever come again?
Life is joy and life is woe.
Through its pains all humans go.
Love enlightens and discloses
Thoughts as sweet...

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Poems about Poems (II)

Kin
by Michael R. Burch

for Richard Moore

1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any...

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Fallen needles soften passage into the forest.
Precise footsteps beckon her to him,

Like a portrait of symmetry in motion.
A kaleidoscope discloses awe-inspiring beauty,
As sunlight freckles tease...

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Conscience And Surviving
       (*Shadow/Blitz poetry should be read rapidly)

     Clear the air
   ...

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