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A Melody
A name I can't describe
Falling from your lips

An Elegy
To maim a broken mind
Falling from my grip

Light meets the darkness
But still it fails to break

Hope...

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Grace colors life in hues of inspiration,
falls soft on the night, with music of acceptance.
It sighs joy through the kindness, peace through the silence,
echoes the...

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I was submerged in 
an ocean 
          of rants,
hiding the sparkles 
of my  
poetic 
...

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These eternal thoughts Got me locked inside this infernal box
 Caught within the devil’s jaws It’s been so long, it seems as though I forgot
...

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I hold tight your hand each day dancing with my eyes closed and believing in our destiny together while i hear your heartbeats in mine,...

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Written: August 14, 2023
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In ancient times, when celestial roam, 
A tale of music, love, and home
There lived a bard of wondrous skill,
Whose melodies could hearts...

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The world has its own wonders,
The stars up there twinkle,
The sun shines bright,
The moon in the night sky glows,
Like the bloom in the flowers in...

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At short siesta time after lunch at noon
I sat alone cozily in my room
Listening classical song from my phone
Its melody dreamily brings me home -
A...

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A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
that's newly sprung in June
and my love is...

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Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain...

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"Chidinma"
Your name is celestial like Manna!
I have not forgotten the way you taste
Nor did the flavour left my savouring mouth.
Honey is sweet,
Sugar is sweet...yet don't...

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Words of tenderness
were passion-filled
across a thousand miles between them
as the heat inflamed their senses.
Almost as a reflex they reached down
to touch themselves and knew
that distance...

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MELODY OF NIGERIANS


In the market, the Government sells verities 
of rumour of future change, we dance well
through the night and when morning comes, we 
saw...

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The melody of harmony
Plays the cooperation of many different parts,
The blend includes conflict,
That moves us towards growth,
The blend includes darkness, the bass that
Holds the depth.

I...

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Africa

Melody...is Africa's signature.
From north, east, west and south,
You hear the trembling sound of big creatures.
Mixed with drum beats from ancient tribes. 
You can feel the...

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