Long Rewrote Poems

These 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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The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...

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In It,  I Saw Prometheus Chained And Bound


I was reading Salinger's, "Catcher In The Rye" 
A follow up from Leo Tolsty's,  "War and Peace"
I heard a voice say, "seek wisdom before you die"
Remember...

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I used to be ashamed to say that I
once wrote for a rather large company,
the kind the likes to print up greeting cards,
and for some reason, make Christmas movies.

Now this caused much consternation in me,
I...

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It is written that you left everything
That you emptied yourself of all
I find in this so dangerous a meaning
But it explains the significance of the fall
It explains the value of my worth
Something I tremble to...

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Rewrote our History books for the world to see
A worthier Icon there could never be,
Born and died over the span short of a century,
Baba Madiba became South Africa’s first Black 
President in April 1994, finally,...

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Master piece

A masterpiece 
A work of Art 
Created from our fathers heart 
Unique and wonderfully made 
He mastered and completed 
Yet some defeated 
They left you out 
Mastering a piece 
Don't come easy 
It comes...

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Ten Years (rewrote it for better meaning)

(Love you, mom)
February 21, 2007
The day that i last saw your face
The same face that went through war
To keep the family together
Through the hardships of life;
The day that i...

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Exchanged smiles and smirks
Yeah always between you and I
With the constant tugs and jerks 
Our emotions, they now run high

It's like that when ever one lurks
A constant murmur and a loud syh
When the supernovas and...

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He's so phoney in poems, moaning only,
same tone, same story,
a war he can't endure anymore that beats him sore and sorry,
exploring his core for strength absent before in writes of sheer folly.

Wanting to write powerfully...

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That moment
That perfect moment
Where time became eternal
I saw
I opened my blinded eyes and saw
The expanse of your soul

To reword
To match time stricken words to an eternal glimpse
Absurd

So, I write
I write without reason
Flowing with the ink...

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When going out it frightens me,                             ...

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A Moment of your Time

I was just going through my head notes and re-wrotes....
and came up with a finished writing that will become a re-write piece to say the least....I begged and pleaded with this...

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I show no mercy, I won't beg for none either
Smile for the world, but the pain runs deeper
I'll fight till I win or until I become weaker
I show no mercy, I won't beg for none...

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You know there was once this girl called heather
Someone that I met back in nineteen ninety three
The only thing I wished is that we'd got it together
I would always be thinking about us two her...

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You touched my heart today...
I know it was hard to find
This tiny heart of mine
It was buried way down deep
Ordered not to make a peep
But your words just reached inside
And cuddled this heart of mine
They...

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"Growth"
You've grown, In more than just age 
You've grown enternally
Finish with this phase 
The laughs and smiles
Once were not there
Spirit once felt weak
Voice felt like you couldnt speak
Then you took one look
Opened the page, rewrote...

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He cried and cried when he had found the Three Penny Opera
was performed to insult his grandfather. "they smiled and treated me kind, all the time insulting me. His grandfather too was insulted as the...

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I thought
I believed
I was beyond the reach of light
Trapped there within your darkness
You eclipsed my wonder
My innocence
My hope

You wrapped me fully
Confiscating my will
Smothered my unrealized self
Draped me in your need
Subjugated me to your narrative

Then in...

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You ripped me 
One word at a time
Shredded my smile
Pulled at my sensitivity
I was never strong enough 
To pull back my paper heart

You took the pieces of me
Arranged them in your perfect order
I prayed for...

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I rewrote this song.
This song is called  lone survivor. It was originally written in 2012.

All my life I've been awake, all I see is a world of hate. My broken dreams are in the...

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The Battle, The Victory, The Light

I remember you, great destroyer of heart
emerging from darkness to hatefully start
Battles taken to wing and skyward bound
pain, death and sorrow so, so easily found!

No praise ever adorns your so...

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When going out it frightens me 
I can feel the tension, as it builds                     ...

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My heart is a pair of tangled headphones
The music still plays but the melody is twisted
All I do is try to unravel the notes
And understand the lyrics 
But I can’t because someone has tangled my...

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Mother I salute you
 Thank you for giving life to me
 Threw your eyes God saw me
 God chose you and I am honoured to call you my mom
 Yes you are Gone but not...

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