Dark Composition Poems

Song Lyrics I

"We Came Together" was written as song lyrics for New Zealand composer David Hamilton.

Song Lyrics: We Came Together
by Michael R. Burch

We came together...

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I never knew I was a love poem 
until he read between my lines 
Intertwined he defined
my meaning by reading
the inner mystery inside
His penmanship casted...

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The Composition of Shadows (II)
by Michael R. Burch
 
We breathe and so we write;
the night
hums softly its accompaniment.
 
Pale phosphors burn;
the page we turn
leads onward,...

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Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!



I choose to...

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Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the...

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Moods rising and setting like the sun                  ...

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Composition 
in a minor key
swirling low 
so sad and free.
dark magenta,heavy laden
clouded skies
above the maiden
standing silent as a stone
in the garden all alone
flowers falling all...

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