Moon Composition Poems

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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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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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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