Dark Separation Poems

A thousand stars bore their pinpoint holes
into a centimeter of dark sky.

If that drifting cloud disappeared,
ten thousand more
would pierce through perception.

If we were to shift...

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It is nothing you can see
It's born of dark inside of me
Calculating everything
To break away and take the reigns
I have lived an eventful life
Broken bones...

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In the quiet aftermath, fairytale's close,
A widow now, where love once arose.
Memories dance of love's early spark,
Newlyweds' dreams, adventures in the dark.

Shopping escapades, where no...

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The dawning sky   lightened
   as day crept up   the horizon
   pushing Night   
  ...

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caught in a dark space of the in-between 
drowned in emotions to others unseen 

too proud to walk backward, can't step ahead 
once starving fears...

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The Untold Story

The flashing headlights intensely illuminated the gloomy faces of the sweetgum tree
The tears fell from the sky like God's Shower , constant and...

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Separation of Souls

Within the coolness of the heat
Where the light and Dark meet

The place where souls will be taken
Some dissolve while others awaken

Souls to the...

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He holds out his hands unto me
to lead me into the secrets of his love.
I hold on unto his arms
and feel the warmth of his...

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I never should have left.
I belong here.
This is my home.
When I left,
I left you in the dark,
In the unknown.
I left you behind and alone.
I caused...

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Poems about Things that Break I
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb,...

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Poems Stay With Me 

Who life is this anyway,
Is she mistaking grief for depression?
as the saying goes.....
Grief is an opportunity to develop authentic belief

Twenty years...

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No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch

I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.



Autumn...

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This Distance Between Us
by Michael R. Burch

This distance between us,
this vast gulf of remembrance
void of understanding,
sets us apart.

You are so far,
lost child,
weeping for consolation,
so dear...

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Moments
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

There were moments full of promise,
like the petal-scented rainfall of early spring,
when to hold you in my arms and to kiss...

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