Heaven Grave Poems

These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for...

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Don't come, do not come
Do not come to my funeral
Do not come to my burial
Stay home in a quiet room
To read my God-given poems
Be inspired...

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Roses are red violets are blue...who would have thought i was into you. You are into me and I you On the deep in yet...

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Going between realms 
My heart on a shelf
Surrounded by stones 
Never alone 

Going between realms 
arguing with myself
turning heaven into hell

Going between realms 
Recreating what...

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This Biblical commentator and Ambassador for Christ is quite serious whenever
I stated:  "Just because you are born again, doesn't give you the license to...

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Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Erasing all the soul’s vivacity –
Erasing...

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Dusky, azure sky looks down
The ochre earth awaits you
Near and dear have a deep frown
On the deathbed, you know too

Time is coming pay no heed
To...

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Through the chaotic screams, echoing fear,
Trembling tears erasing the memories,
Moments, softly shadowed by soundless yearnings …
Soon, we shall be leaving this world, this life,
Leaving for...

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Sometimes I’ve wondered – and, yes
I’ve pondered,
Wondering about my Grandpa’s lessons…
He was sometimes so kind, others – so wise,
Yet, whenever I think back, my memory...

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Lotus lips of lilac shade
planting pink fragrant kisses on my face
Kisses from auntie Jasmine in action today
Her love lives beyond the grave

Kisses from Jasmine in...

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A grave wherein my body lie,
Pounds of flesh overwhelmed with flies.

In buzzes they siren their movement hence,
Though I lay still in cadaverous silence.

Flesh dehydrates, cast...

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Riding out among the tall grass and sage
I came on a pile of old cowboy's bones
No grave was dug and there was no marker
to say...

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In Memoriam Quietly Always Close

Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
     Over the granite crosses and statues...

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As buried seeds that germinate 
We one day from the graves will rise
All life this fear devoured our hearts 
All life we paid this scenery's...

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