Long Sardonyx Poems

DESCRIBE HEAVEN FOR THE BEAUTY

For the beauty of heaven Golden gates, made of gold;
Environment perfect temperature not hot nor cold;
Holy dwelling of the Most High Lord ;
For the beauty of heaven;
Can't even begin to comprehend...

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These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II

The Locker
by Michael R. Burch

All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden...

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Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, courageous of heart, father of warlike Victory, able ally of Themis and Divine Law, dauntless defender...

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The New Jerusalem chapter 21:9-22

One of the seven angels who had one of the seven bowels full of the
seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the
bride, the wife of...

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DESCRIBE HEAVEN


Holy dwelling of the Lord Most High, God;
Angels and Saints, Jesus dwells there;
No one will ever fail or fall again only Lucifer fall;
Many mansions city of the living God where;
 Heavenly Jerusalem will be...

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“10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11It shone with the glory of God,...

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I found it endearing, the crazy look to her virile flare!
Like she was an Angel sent from above.
With 
Love's Tigered Eyed stare-
that appeared as a releasing of Doves, 
through a ring of fire.
It appears it...

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EARLY POEMS XX

Cameo
by Michael R. Burch

Breathe upon me the breath of life;
gaze upon me with sardonyx eyes.
Here, where times flies
in the absence of light,
all ecstasies are intimations of night.

Hold me tonight in the spell I...

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My love, the world is ours,
its reflective sapphire oceans,
its turquoise pine tree forests,
its topaz colored days,
its moonstone lit evenings.
My love, I'm certain it's us.

The amethyst citrine painted sunset 
called our names right from its onset.

You are...

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What Will Heaven Be Like  PART III

                          The glory...

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Well you are the Virgin of Chasity
All fired up in a warm shade of Indigo
You are the unification of cosmic
Forces in the shadow of Mercury
An adaptable soul but you never
Compromise your virtues
Born of the earth...

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A dropper of winsome Fall
in my cat-eye irises.
I fall for this payday of
solitude and promise.

God’s mercy and grace
in the Southern places
of my soul, playfully sourced -
Autumn in living color.

I saunter the shadows of treetops,
burns of...

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