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Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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more than life itself, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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more than life itself, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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more than life itself, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret of Death and Life There is a "Secret To Life,and "There is a secret to "The Death of those who will not realize that they are"already dead in the "Spirit"of "The Lord God Almighty! There is a secret...
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Categories:
more than life itself, 12th grade, 1st grade, 8th grade, allah,
Form:
Bio
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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more than life itself, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"
Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...
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Categories:
more than life itself, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form:
Blank verse
The Maid of OrleansReflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that...
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more than life itself, christian, conflict, courage, england, history,
Form:
Couplet
Michelangelo: Modern English TranslationsMICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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more than life itself, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
more than life itself, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Faces of Man
"The Faces of Man"
The faces of Man
transformative
held in the hand
of Mephistopheles
blood sells white and red
pontificating with two fingers
consuming greed for
want of everything
they meld into the
curves of their crooked bends
he’s come to...
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Categories:
more than life itself, dark, humanity, psychological,
Form:
Epic
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:
more than life itself, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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more than life itself, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
The Druid 3Now that Crimson Fire was gone
Fire Eagle needed to gain experience.
For over ten years he travelled the lands
helping people, learning from many other druids.
One day he knew he would be called up on to
take the...
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Categories:
more than life itself, bereavement, death, funeral, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
She Hasn'T Killed Me YetShe Hasn't Killed me yet
58.
...
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Categories:
more than life itself, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - XxiUnquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI
The pupil, the bitch and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; today softwares...
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more than life itself, children, humor, parents, student, teacher,
Form:
Epigram
Thanks For Your TimeTHANKS FOR YOUR TIME: To everything there is a
season, a time for every purpose under heaven; -
Ecclesiastes 3:1
A young man learns what’s most important in life
from the guy next door. It had been some time...
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Categories:
more than life itself, analogy, bible, blessing, books,
Form:
Prose
ExistenceAll that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
raindrops in waters...
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Categories:
more than life itself, bible, earth, god, life, nature, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Quatrain
Vapor Barrier MasticOxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only...
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Categories:
more than life itself, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character, deep, fear, humanity,
Form:
Didactic
The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"
Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips
on lines of sticky Asphalt
The father writes his play
The mother seen as absent
becomes deus ex machina
she will be the only one
to...
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Categories:
more than life itself, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Letter To a Soldier - a TrilogyLETTER TO A SOLDIER
A Trilogy
I. SONGS OF LOVE
Love walked with me
In the crisp fall air
In a shower of gold and red.
Love showed me the print
Of a doe’s foot
And where she made her bed.
Love sat...
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Categories:
more than life itself, absence, america, death, emotions, hero, longing, war,
Form:
Ballad
Glimmerings of TruthThey say making a friend is quite easy,
It’s “not being eaten” that’s hard,
And a cloud’s life is known to be breezy,
A dog’s mean (that’s tied in a yard)....
That a lifetime can pass in an...
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Categories:
more than life itself, life, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is UnfairLIFE IS UNFAIR
Teach the children of tomorrow
For tomorrow holds more pains,
Lie within the oasis of hatred for love is far.
The lilies of power can witness the aroma
Of flavoured words in my dying mouth,
Defend the...
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Categories:
more than life itself, africa, age, art,
Form:
Ballad
Blood and StainsThere is a sadness in her smile,
a sorrow that conceals itself within
the curl of the corner of her lips.
It's like watching someone discover
the
small good in a series of bad
memories.
There, she sits,...
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Categories:
more than life itself, psychological
Form:
Prose
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed ManyMighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
(A Native American Food Source)
Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,
Nature
sprinkles its bounty
majestic Oaks rain
fruited missiles to ground:
thy treasure feeds life itself
creatures...
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Categories:
more than life itself, creation, history, humanity, native american, nature, tree,
Form:
Verse
To My Oldest Daughter On Her BirthdayTo My Dearest Daughter, Sommer ...
When I was growing up love seemed a very elusive and capricious thing, and I spent more time just trying to understand it than I did actually looking for it,...
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Categories:
more than life itself, child, father daughter, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue