Prayer Romanticism Poems

i have moments when the words
are failing me
or they are lost in some dimension
the screen is white
wanting to dance in a black medley
that becomes a...

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In Full Flight Her Soul Departed


To free my heart of all that haunted me
Told I, these my tidings.
... On a summer's dawn,
Fresh from our orisons,...

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"Barefeet"



Let sleeping cats lie
velvet dreams licking
skeleton keys

passed on kisses
passed on fire tongues

sketchy
scratchy

curled around
warm blanketed whispers

laughter tickled
by whiskers

tales twisted
paws softly scratching

skin forgotten, 
dormant 

covered safely
under blanket

out...

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"Silence is a Poem"



Silence is a poem
she is music in me
a constant chattering conversation

she is my daily mantra 
big love residing in my heart 
wrapped...

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An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464

In...

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Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...

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"Composing Opalescent"



Together we arrive 
Composing opalescent 
blue-green green-blue
jaded oceans submerged 
then rising from great waves
thrashing in on our storm 
we are united mast-held and entranced
entwined...

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Lay in me the foundations of your peace
Let me share sabbath, silent as the deep
Oh lift me to taste the fruits I can't reach

Still in...

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https://youtu.be/g327UIHv6k8
You are my answered prayer, My fulfilled wish, My realized dream.
I pray this to God.
To you My husband, amongst all your lovers,
My love impresses you...

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Home is where my husband is.
I have an amazing husband who is a strong man of God. He is very dedicated to me and our...

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Broken and shattered
Important things never mattered
No one else can fix me
Except the one who never sleeps
The One who listens to me weep

Confusion and anxiety
Couldn’t be...

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She came to me in a dream one night
The last time I dreamt I was only 10
She floated through my bedroom window
with a smile and...

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Please God hear this prayer of mine.
For it has been the longest one longest of times
I know your listening, like you did the other times...

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Love
Like religion
Was not here

Until
I met you
There wasn't 
A prayer

Then
The day came
A miracle
Too

When
Love and Religion
Became
I Love You...

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The rain and a sigh
The silence before a daring drop
A calm utterance of hope whilst sharing a prayer 
A well-timed gaze

An avid expectancy
Followed by a...

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