Lyric Human Poems

Internally unconventional, externally conform,
In the game of life, it's the norm.
Always watch yourself, like you're on a stage,
Avoid regrets, don't let your actions rage.

Bullies on...

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SAMADHI

I am the Void
                   and THE ALL
I...

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The undying Artificer with His holy hand
Formed a lump of clay into living figurine,
Human Being, by name of its mortal brand.
It fell into this earth...

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Living One’s Life
 
With living one’s life—
so begins now all the temptations and
all the true mortal strife.

Knowing that what may come and what
each of us...

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TREAT ME LIKE A HUMAN
Flowers can be pink
Flowers can be white
Light or heavy that does not change their hearts
They result in fruits which may have...

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Dawn
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth, Laura, and all good mothers

Bring your peculiar strength
to the strange nightmarish fray:
wrap up your cherished ones
in the golden light of...

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The Oracle spoke in tongues
Of crisscrossed words reversed in a pattern
Percolated in the minds to be given to lungs
Then tossed to the winds like a...

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Hey Dude,
You’re A Human Lightening Rod 
By: Tom Wright
2005

You’ve Studs in your eyebrows, a spike in your hair
Your tongue is pierced causing me to stare.
You...

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Loud insistent dragons are pounding at my brick walls.
Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. Bam. No walls now. 
These giant creatures have escaped, uninhibited, free.
In a happy,...

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Independent laws, moral tune
Reserve applause, infernal loom
Creator clause, fatal monsoon

Turn tables above, summer bloom
Floweth love, beguiling June
Flying dove, impeccable croon

Abundant crime, seasonal doom
Existential times, big...

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I must confess
I am no less
I am just human

not above any other
we are all equal brother
I am just human

excuse my mistakes
I am just figuring out...

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I am you,
You are me,
Human...

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What if my ears were deaf to music 
And I was born without fingers,
Would it make me any less human?

What if I eat of the...

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Oh, I have become
Satisfyingly numb 
Conceal the way you feel tonight
Oh, I have succumb
To a saturated crumb
Deal with the pain I feel damn right

I...have...become...undone,
A neglected,...

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How human we are

When chill wind blows,
and tempest storms are done,
You will find me waiting,
when the evening comes.

No matter the tears, that we both have...

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