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Premium Member Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.

This separation had been scheduled to...

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Categories: let there be light, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse



CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY
{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021, as a contribution to his memorial service. Cecyl was given...

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Categories: let there be light, africa, allegory, character, death of a friend,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Adverse World Unfinished Will Finish
You stole away my lonely melody, Lord,
And made it harmony according to Your accord
I’d like to thank You with all of my heart as I make sound
My mind is trying to look forward to a...

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Categories: let there be light, angst, emotions, encouraging, moving on, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends of galaxies

May it become the ‘Swan Song Poem’ of all...

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Categories: let there be light, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member What Did God Do On the Seventh Day
WHAT DID GOD DO ON THE SEVENTH DAY

As I begin and end my day, I SAY
As I dwell amidst myself, darkness abounds yet within my light 	
And the earth was without form, and void;
And darkness...

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Categories: let there be light, allegory, analogy, appreciation, celebration, creation, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes" 

that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man 
pass him by -

he has angel eyes

that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light 
the entire transparent 
padded room parade

dance cards lit 
he’s biding...

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Categories: let there be light, art, muse, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Light of the World
There is an author, a creator, a maker of the LIGHT                        ...

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Categories: let there be light, god, jesus, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Spirit to Flesh


Peaceful existence as a Being of light;
Not of flesh, not of clay, nor soil, yet made.
Created with the Breath of Life. 
     Spoken into miraculous awareness from the lips of The...

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Categories: let there be light, angel, bible, creation, death, evil, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
The Little You Can Know
Without form and void, 
The world gave a lunatic gaze. 
Lack of luminous light love bought,
Darkness did give her a chase. 
Open to no one was her, 
Water beneath and air above. 
Open to someone...

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Categories: let there be light, evil, god, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Book - the Quatern Style
~The   Book  ~
(Quatern)


 It tells the beginning of man
 How He created all from start
 He made the moon, stars, day and night
 It tells of God's great love for man

 It...

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Categories: let there be light, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Allegorical Echoers
(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots)

We may not be deemed apostolic recorders
But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are
The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of
Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times
we spend here on this...

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Categories: let there be light, allegory, analogy, black african american, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Heart Knows What The Mind Doesn't-extended version
Abandoning the expected, you’ll find clarity in chaos,
       allowing our minds lens to transform, tune in, brighten
Believing in you is being just you, the simplicity of you,
  ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: let there be light, spiritual,
Form: ABC
A Brighter Outlook By Stepping Out Part Two
Brighter days and encouragement succeeded from when I had stepped out from the gloom.
I found beyond the door there was greater light to visualize nature and beauty than what I could have imagined. 
The swan...

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Categories: let there be light, encouraging, nature, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once darkness covered
Genesis 1:1-3 KJVAAE
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of...

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Categories: let there be light, faith, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That 'I Am' - Revisited
All That ‘I AM’ - Revisited

Let all that ‘I AM,’ yes, my pulp, seed, and cover,
from dreams long misplaced to the fears, I’m resisting
(though friends think them offal). My eye’s tears from mote
(that makes sparks...

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Categories: let there be light, art, bible, faith, love, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
the GAUD poems
Poems from "the GAUD poems" and "the ur poems"...


& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch


reverse the Curse
with LIGHT VERSE!
recant the cant
with an illuminating chant,
etc.
—michael r. burch

Can...

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Categories: let there be light, bible, christian, extended metaphor, god, light, nature,
Form: Free verse
THE ur POEMS
THE ur POEMS


& GAUD said, “Let there be LIGHT VERSE
to illuminate the ‘nature’ of my Curse!”
—michael r. burch


grave request
by michael r. burch

come to ur doom
in Tombstone;

the stars stark and chill
over Boot Hill

care nothing for ur...

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Categories: let there be light, angel, atheist, christian, humanity, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Grave Request
grave request
from "the ur poems"
by Michael R. Burch

come to ur doom
in Tombstone;

the stars stark and chill
over Boot Hill

care nothing for ur desire;

still,

imagine they wish u no ill,
that u burn with the same antique fire;

for there’s...

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Categories: let there be light, death, destiny, extended metaphor, funeral, god, grave,
Form: Free verse
Ukrainian Poetry Translations 2 by Michael R Burch
Love in Kyiv
by Natalka Bilotserkivets
translation by Michael R. Burch

Love is more terrible in Kyiv
than spectacular Venetian passions,
than butterflies morphing into bright tapers–
winged caterpillars bursting aflame!

Here spring has lit the chestnuts, like candles,
and we have cheap...

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Categories: let there be light, funeral, love, sad, sorrow, spring, war, words,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 4: Birth and Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 4: BIRTH/EVOLUTION

Simultaneous Flight
by Michael R. Burch

*The number of possible connections [brain] cells can make exceeds the number of particles in the universe. — Gerald Edelman, 1972 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and...

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Categories: let there be light, bird, flying, light, science, song, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Awakening, From Darkness Into the Light
An Awakening, From Darkness Into The Light

As I walked the flame danced in my mouth
I wearied yet the earnest spirit flew.
I a poor lad born and raised in the South,
Had nurtured the anger until immense...

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Categories: let there be light, emotions, faith, forgiveness, god, journey, light, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jesus Christ Is the Light of My Salvation Collections
OH! Jesus Christ is the light of my salvation!
His banner over me is His love for me!
OH! Jesus Christ is the light of my salvation!
His banner over me is His love for me! 
OH! Jesus...

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Categories: let there be light, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Lyric
Premium Member We Are His Chosen Ones Collections
OH! We are His chosen ones.  We are His very special children of His gospel light!
And let His gospel light! Shine! Shine! Shine! All around His world! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

OH! We will spread the good...

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Categories: let there be light, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Lyric
Poems about Science 6: Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION

Singularity
by Michael R. Burch

Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, they say,
proves there’s no God. But let’s look anyway ...

He said, *Let...

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Categories: let there be light, earth, life, light, universe,
Form: Rhyme
The Light of Life
He gave me unconditional, abundant grace
He gave me unbelievable faith during life’s regretless race
The light of life is what I truly try to embrace
In this darkened world of loveless lust, this world of disgrace

Agape Love...

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Categories: let there be light, courage, deep, emotions, encouraging, endurance, happiness, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things