Best Separateness Poems

Life's greatest heated human tragedy
the one we are likely taught not to see.
Our wide-ranging worlds are well connected,
as atoms wiggle we're all effected.
Separation is optic...

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Holder of the flame of bliss awareness
Cognised by presence, in tranquil stillness 
Each hue new, although generic code same
God is love; we may give Him...

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JUDGE US NOT

Judge us not for our sin
Look at the people we've been

Don't hold it against us that we were weak
We found a love that...

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Written: November 15, 2023
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Some seek leisure in the pristine wilderness
The solitary...

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Wandering 
Through an art gallery 
I couldn’t help but wonder where 
The ocean of artistic ideas may be found.  Down 
Deep inside our brains...

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We fit now; we complete one another. 
Our lives have melted into one 
and we dissolve into the unity
which consolidates our synthesis. 

We fit now;...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...

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Eastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.

Dark horizons speak of pain,
and...

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This axis mundi,  rotates,    
   within and outside the veils
I remember walking with you  
 and how we...

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Rejection Slips 2

The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
 
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
 
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding...

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The Dream

On it’s  final journey – destination – a coma –
realization, a stagnant pool of reflections,
images on fun house mirrors –
surrealistic paintings
upon the walls...

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The wise ones work strangely
The wise one is the witch
with the power to entice
but enticement has a positive and a negative trait
one lures to love
one...

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I have occupied this temporary shell
we call a "body" for quite some time.
longevity being a relative  concept.
Life has not always been easy,
in fact it...

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The valley holds on, to murder
of moon, behind the trees.
It is dark and clouds are meditating.

You think of a perfect horror
and a poisoned arrow flies...

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Lozenge
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...

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