Funeral Moon Poems

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.



I’m...

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A meeting of two moms can be a wonderful thing a meeting of two minds is a beautiful thing…

Shortly after we moved into our new...

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She was found face down beside her bed
dead long before they kicked in the door
of the deteriorating house that reeked
of cat piss that had soaked...

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Moon
rises
early to 
watch the Sun die

Dropped into the sea!

Mocking gold light
comes to life
in the
waves...

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cold stars shown down
deep into the outer voids 
night skies
drifting dreams
keep shifting across 
desolate planes 
distant dark rains 
gather the insane 
drifting down 
light flickers...

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Starlight and Moonlight II

These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …




Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch 

for...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Swoon Song
by Michael R. Burch

In this ordinary swoon
as I pass from life to death,
I feel no heat from the cold, pale moon;
I feel no sympathy...

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Levity and gravity

The weight of gravity and lightness of levity complement nicely
Like a seesaw or ying and yang they are balanced precisely
Levity may add the...

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The pain comes once again
The ground shines through the rain
Winter is ending, spring is near
The sky is sad because he knows that I will leave...

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The three enigmas of Turandot

The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary, 
a ballad...

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Two crows spoke indigo black
One to the other at the graveside bleak
Sharing the begotten woe as they did clack
Perched over the fading epitaph did speak
In...

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crescent moon on tombstone, ivory dreams rest in eternal darkness.






Dated 27th December, 2018
Submitted to the Last Line Poetry Contest
Sponsor ' Silent One'
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Aloft, the gem was mounted in black velvet skies
A refulgent pearl, surrounded by glistening stars
Cradled in the arms of midnight, it hung as a prize,
as...

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Black moon... It is my heart...

Shards of night pierce my tearing eyes...

Her scent still looms like tiny flowers drifting in the summer wind...

Chopin plays softly...

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