Save Your Breath Poems - Poems about Save Your Breath

...“Self observes waking, dreaming and deep sleep ~ In stillness taking a consciousness leap” ~ quote by poet Relying on instincts in the dream state, there remains neither ......

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...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Urdu poems about tyranny, the world, sky, sun, wind, night, faith, roses, creation & entropy. Tyranny adores those who adore the tyrant. —Mirza Ghalib, transl......

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......But why limit it to mankind? that view is much too small, when animals are considered, this truth applies to all. The predator is obvious, they kill to lie off flesh, has one ever sworn off ......

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...These heretical poems on the subjects of God, religion and Christianity explain why I “left” the Religious Right. If one screams below, what the hell is "Above"? —Michael R. Burch Religion is......

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...Why would we conceal our delight, as bliss within our form pulsates, throbbing thus by day and by night, transmuting form as God dictates? We wonder why sages hold back, refusing to share thei......

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...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......

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...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......

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...there is no one here save the breath of God ~ beholding dust come to life, leaves us awed......

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...Villanelle: Remembering Not to Call by Michael R. Burch (a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch) The hardest thing of all, after telling her everything, is reme......

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...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 2 Catullus CI: 'His Brother's Burial' translation by Michael R. Burch 1. Through many lands and over many seas I have journeyed, brother, to these wretched rites, to t......

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...I like to think I could do it if I wanted to I tell myself it's situational, these things It's not your fault, it's not your fault Look around Everything is dying And I didn't see thi......

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... ~ say no other word to someone that gives you the silent treatment twice ~......

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...My thoughts seek companionship in substance Substance of the five senses, yes But mostly of conscience Isn’t it torture to go on and on, days across Pasting social norms over truth Constantly......

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...What happens when your voice is lying But the monologue in your head believes you're not? A full tank of gas, a million excuses to leave A conscience computing a mile a minute, hallucinations of......

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...The Visit Part 6 The hospital room was bathed with a warm light. Prisms of luminosity shone and fired out through a mass of flaming red hair. She was the most beautiful angel she had ever......

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