Art Immortality Poems

I cannot subject your immortality to my art
For something deathless cannot by death survive,
Nor can I anchor your beauty upon the sun
Which although shines bright,...

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Life Fled As I Sought Yet Another Day,
( verses born from the illusion of immortality, 1977) 
Part One

As I went beyond that black veil,
Having trod...

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Unscaved with Time
Never divine
Souls come and linger
In this theatrical pantomime

Temple of the slaves, rise from their Graves
Misfits and jesters alike, juggle souls with rotten spikes
Temple...

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What Works
by Michael R. Burch

for David Gosselin

What works—
hewn stone;
the blush the iris shows the sun;
the lilac’s pale-remembered bloom.

The frenzied fly: mad-lively, gay,
as seconds tick his...

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We need to "Love" what we have "Got to be",so that we can have "Immorality"! There is a "Fire inside of you and me"!!! The...

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No matter how far we travel into the universe
No matter how many worlds we conquer
Or marvelous civilizations we encounter
No matter how many creatures we dissect...

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Creativity emerges with two wings,
One aids her flying.
The other like a sting,
That aids her on intuity piercing.
But she looses her wings,
Left with one but nothing.

Music...

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Dreaming of Her Passionate Beloved
In his hand holds the Flower of Immortality
The Art of Beauty that will not fade
His Loving Essence that Travels through the...

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It comes down not to what I seek
but what the rocks and flame
and embers of a still pervasive spirit
make of silence that forgets itself.

It is...

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We offen do ponder the birds that will fly, the ground at our feet, the sun in the sky.
 Lies like rocks, we cast in...

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A very disconnecting creek where bodies
were found, presents a pictorial death in night,
which must be challenged, I say. Then  I think without
thoughts; summer was...

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A very disconnecting creek where bodies
were found, presents a pictorial death in night,
which must be challenged, I say. Then  I think without
thoughts; summer was...

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May you close your eyes in advance 
Before Lucifer captures your soul 
In our saviors final dance 
Alexander the Great 
Commander of the darkest fate
Sheathe...

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