Dark Sage Poems

She sits on a stone on top of the mountain gazing at universe around her,  a cascade of mountain stands in front of her...

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he Riders of the Purple Sage
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Between each archway fingerprint
Remnant headstone carving intricate
Decodes dusty cold cave hieroglyphics 

Dirty criss crossed city disposes its sacred
Therapist picks information, laden orchid
Reaps apples, red atoms...

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I've lived in many a home on the east coast but I've never until recently had encounters with a ghost. Some times in my bedroom...

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Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If...

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A Shadorma

Pot-bellied, 
wizened old oak sage;
resting in
silent woods.
Each swollen arthritic joint
tells a magic tale.

Within dark
knotholes of blackness,
lie secrets;
songs only
sung when the woods are silent;
echoes of...

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Glimpse sans words
Sense poise heard


Moon beams stream
Quest meets dream


Moon glow bright
Taste fond sights


By this lake
Purge thoughts fake


Feel cold breeze 
Surge odd sneeze


Warm tea sip
Map mind...

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SAGE FLOATING IN SWAN LAKE

How do you squeeze a man’s body into the coin slot?
With twine and treacherous stabbing.

The machine turned malevolent after dumping
an entire...

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Enveloped in humane rage,
she was a torturous sage,
pierced his wounded spirit,
she went forth to tear it,
forbidding it for him to breathe
she summoned dark to wreathe...

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My Grandfather was a Sage-Burner.  
He would light the dry twisted grass with a Zippo. 
It was chromed, silver and read; "Live to ride....

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Inside the womb of
death 
Secretly sits a full
blooded young sage 
He is alone in his
own kingdom 
In a posture of deep
meditation  
Administering all of
us...

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