Hope Composition Poems

When stars ascend and illuminate moonlight,
he sits in the midst of childhood confusion,
bricks in ruby quartz, shape pearl-face of twilight,
crafting a castle from artistic vision
where...

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Music blends beautiful with grace
Silencing frustrations, erasing
Broken with restoration, mending
Hearts, feelings – blending
Hopes and dreams, imaginations
Promises soft like inspiration,
Laughing at the moon, starlight whispers
Glistening prayers...

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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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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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Time begins with the first hour of YESTERDAY, 
At the starting minute of the things in the past; 
The initial second signals the origin
Of the...

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Moods rising and setting like the sun                  ...

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It’s December. And bold
Blackberry is young. All freeze nothing a poet can do.
What a winter's palette
Spread out of mercy
Ah, holidays! How sharply
Hearts can bite

With color...

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Every morn, I wake to a blank page - 
A canvas, on which I paint
Today

I often revisit past illustrations;
Some statuesque,
and others with rips, tears, and...

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I would like you to relax and maybe you could listen
to my soul trapped in an art, a mozart composition
in a way related in a...

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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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