Spiritual Mountains Poems

The sunlight streams through the windowpane
Casting a rainbow around my newborn
In her bassinet as she sleeps. 
Brightening my world with flickering magic.
Her silky blonde curls...

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("Beam Me Up" - photo by CJ Earle, 2015)

Mountain Death Song

beam me up
I've been waiting for a miracle
beam me up 
I've been waiting just for...

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One
Bread 
Was scattered 
Deep in the hilltops 
And came in your hands as one soul 
So the church is gathered from each corner of the...

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Eternity ensues to mount	
from fertile vale above the mist.
Traverse the river past the turn.

Calm at the perpetual fount
and steady forth into the fist
of heady sun-struck...

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God's instructions are simple enough
asking that we would just obey
knowing the Lord has our best at heart
trust His words all of the way

God says go...

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~ A Poem on the Parsha* ~

            
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Charaxio 
                      sky-scraping, dizzying...

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On mountains sublime
Fairies are freed from their toil
Through the sun smiling...

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Chinese Translations III

Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the...

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You have to see it to believe it, I told everyone that day.
I had seen the all-seeing eye of the damn from far away.
She was...

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Trumpets blaring, lightning flashing
Mt. Sinai smoking, thunder crashing

   Moses may have reached the highest of heights
   Yet it looks like God...

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gazing at waves on a serene seashore…
                  ...

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On site of this forgotten Babylon
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in this annihilated place
What strange creature’s kin
to inhuman race
Dwell deep in antediluvian hells 
Uncanny...

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Face of the Flatirons mountain range
Awakens
To the pre-dawn of the Colorado sun
A charcoal sketch
Scribbled to life from a meadow of pale paper

I wade waist-high in...

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Climbing up
The rugged slope
I follow a rope of mountain creek a map has never found

Cold rapid pulse
I hold from its succulent wrist

Cup my thirst
To the...

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