Write Mountains Poems

Moments we live for,
moments that write our history to look back.
Pictures that come back to our mind.
Seconds captured by our brain in a blink of...

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Mountains, so stoic
Standing so tall and so grand,
Etched upon the world's memory
As the sole witnesses to the beautiful ballet
Danced by Time

Mountains, so bold
Yet bidding me...

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You’ll never be an Olympic champion, Cecile,
After your accident on the ice,
Just walk, only,
There are so many beautiful things to do,
While walking, only, doubly,
Walking makes...

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All night, all night came  shimmering light 

And lit all winding unseen ways
In clusters came there from the skies
The angels , elves and beauteous...

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Undulating hills and mountains
As far as meets the eye,
Towering pines that seem to kiss 
The clouds in the azure sky.
Birds sing their madrigals,
While a brook...

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In the year 1995
They strengthen up their frame 
It must be sturdy it must strong
To play her deadly game

In the year of 96
Their last year...

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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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I send you these calm, baby blue skies in these words I write
The clouds light up near the horizon, approaching this coming night
It’s peaceful here...

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It is the constant present
That we come to resent
The way time gains whats sent,

Sending the traveler backwards
Not into the mountains but towards
Valley's slung low as...

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Everyone's seen the morning sun
the light slants and the blood-splattered sky
the full moon's sliced off to night's dark face
on to the TV screen, Facebook or...

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O sacred Muse, how you inspire me so
     to write lines of a greater madness,
to sing of ethereal heights they never...

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Alone, I camp below Cathedral Peak – 

God, I know you’re not whom we say you are
and you should have a good case for slander...

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Let the moment live for longer in our mind, 
do not let it go
Keep on sitting close to me
Look at the stars
The Ci-jin island is...

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My Kid Sister

I have one, 
or at least sort of. 
I have one, 
that I was never around…
growing up. 
Divided families do that, 
they get...

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Observance
by Michael R. Burch

Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

By dying leaves and...

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