Heaven Charm Poems

I had leaned on the bar of the balcony, when suddenly
My eyes and my mind have captured, from far away
A silhouette creeping down the steps...

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Her smile strikes my eyes like a gleam of stars under the mystic heaven.

April 15, 2023

Stardust Poetry Contest (2nd place) 
Sponsored By: JCB Brul...

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~ A Tribute to Carolyn Devonshire ~

              I think of life
 ...

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Cute little baby lying in her crib
Like a fresh sacred flower bud straight from Heaven
Just awake from a short nap
Eyes wide open, she began to...

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Pandemic Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

I pray tonight
the starry light
might
surround you.

I pray
by day
that, come what may,
no dark thing confound you.

I pray ere the morrow
an end to...

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Hymn to Aphrodite
by Sappho
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor!
Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress and beguiler!
I implore you, dread mistress, discipline me...

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of terminally opinionated snake charmers
for art's sake of course
well what else could define our course of action
when the end of unknowing
is only a mouse click...

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Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant
to the whims of those about him
endlessly wordlessly wondering
about the many demented subjective qualities
of our ever present mammalian imperative via
a thought balloon...

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Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
sleeping in a box so we don’t rust

saving spirits the angels dream
selling souls the demons scream

the dragon’s tears and...

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Amorous charm of a dream,
which my mind has feigned,
poured to reality in an act supreme,
which the world 'love'has named.

The free flowing cloud in open air,
like...

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