Best Tourmaline Poems

Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth...

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Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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We grasp shadows flow over magenta light
      in the crystal trails of tourmaline
      yes, both...

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KISSING THE MOON

Twilight displays striations of multicolored      light.
The shrewd sun and morose moon, begin to     ...

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Our voyage begins holding each other 
slowly captivating space filled magic begins 
warmly with glory be sings under spells

Grace is blessed always 
with deep warm...

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Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind...

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SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber...

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"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards...

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i often wondered why did October
in all of her beauty
become national breast cancer month

the trees bear resemblance to the sun
the yellow, orange, scarlet folds
softly spiraling...

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Him possible trance transcending
Watering our possible moving
Her possible walk longing
Wavering our dove, steps crawling
Dust mixt feeling,
For the orphan sick

Core mystery mere tormenting
Polishing our poetry, tourmaline
Close...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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The path led to rose bushes cul de sac.
Early in the morning, we sat down to rest.
Dewdrops are still shining on the track.
At our feet,...

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Sonnets XLII-LI

Distances
by Michael R. Burch

Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.

Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken...

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"Ghosts and Gods"



We see them
when we want to,
in our minds 
and hearts
they are always 
mysterious
watching over us

the other world -
above
they -
see everything
in our dreams
below

we ...

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Shades of Awakening

Cool of the moon dampened the heat of the sun.
Corals of sleep invigorate the restful one. 

Falling awake on this crystal clear morn,
Into...

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