Life 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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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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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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Goddess
by Michael R. Burch

“What will you conceive in me?”—
I asked her. But she
only smiled.

“Naked, I bore your child
when the wolf wind howled,
when the cold moon...

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The Composition of Shadows
by Michael R. Burch

“I made it out of a mouthful of air.”—W. B. Yeats

We breathe and so we write; the night
hums softly...

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B-rilliant
I-dea
E-mploys
N-ame's
L-iterary
A-im
I-n
N-oble
A-crostic's
R-ighteous
D-ivine

M-use
A-s
C-omposition
A-bout
L-ife
I-s
N-icely
O-perated

Topic: Birthday of Bienlainard C. Macalino (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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Perhaps it was the most unappreciative gift:
a pen and a composition book wrapped in red paper
imprinted with Santa image riding his sleight...
I expected toys I...

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Between two cotyledons— plant grows with a bud! 
With two lines— couplets come into flower with an idea.
Sometimes, two lines may be more powerful than...

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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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