Song Power Poems

I've toiled in shadows, my hands calloused and worn,
Laboring silently, my spirit tattered and torn.
For the promise of pennies, I've bent my back low,
While the...

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For some this is funny,
for others it is dead serious.
This may not be earth shattering to you,
but for many it is.
Why have most bathrooms taken...

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S/he is troubled
about how to dance more green
in this overwhelming Anthropocene

And has grown to love 
an outside starlit image
of Universal Red SageGod 
resiliently dancing under...

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When you hit bliss, what does your mind revert to? 
A song, the lyrics may I be so bold in asking why? 
Do the words...

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'You are right' I wrote
Meaningless and ignored
Just about a NY Times game
But what about 'Hi, I'm home'?
I miss pleasantries out all the time
It could be...

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In sun-scorched dunes, beside a weathered sentinel, 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound,...

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We may need a rest left here
right now
said the Muse
to his Warrior
and her Sage.

In compliant spirit,
Sage feels a rest not
not significant
in music's octaved stories
of wealthy
deep...

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Truth and pen 
Words and definitions
Phrases with messages
Sentences and feelings
Reality pouring through the pen 
Feeling falling from the mind 
The pen taking down 
each proves...

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by Max Burchett

Hard to know
What is real now.
Who to believe,
Who will deceive.

This is truth
As I know it,
Yet I never say, my truth,
Since surely truth is...

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When dancing Earth's tribal rhythms
natural seasons
light and heavy step
steeped nurturing intent
anxiously dark
anticipating bright
natural exotic music
dancing muse content

While singing deep spiritual
reasons
for light and night,
glad and sad...

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Do you ever replay regrets,
Breathing in that cracked breath, 
Inhaling the last of your little secrets,
Never to suppose, this is not in fact, death.

Even outside,...

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Do it for love 
Poetry is my life 
It heals the unseen wounds
Takes away my depression
Gives me my value in expression
Makes my day beautiful
I love...

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I dance and sing my power song
The children laugh, to me they throng
Meeting one who was labelled a thug,
I do not see it as he...

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She spoke to me saying I would be lost without you.
 She said my love is true and undying only for you.
In past times of...

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Tempt me to sing
My soulful siren song
Oh then tell me, tell me
I never do anything wrong
Ensconced in your arms
So safe and strong...

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