Peace 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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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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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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Singapore Summit, as high as the sky, 
though, there hangs the Peace Prize pie,
dangling plumb, dangling awry,
drives the dolt's eyelids to flap, eyeballs to fly;
drags...

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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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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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