Dream Separation Poems

Sometimes
When we have a loving relationship
Life gets in the way
The pressures of work money worries
Piles of unpaid bills
Not enough time for each other
The relationship erodes...

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It was only after
She left him
That his dreams
Began to dance
With reality.
...

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In the corridors of time, our love took its flight,
A dance that faded but left echoes in the night.
I still love you, that truth stands...

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girl weeps through the night,
her love gone to distant lands,
danger's silent threat.

girl's tears merge with rain,
lost love in a distant land,
heartache's gentle bath.

in her dream,...

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I strip in the solitude of my room.
the mirror reflects secrets that I keep.
All the silent screams of my faint life’s doom,
visible unhealed scars ...

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We played 
Scrabble until the word Bali came up-
and you were gone.

That night
your pillow
smelled of ocean breezes, coconut and
heliconia.
When you came back-
I want to be...

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Inspired by Separation
Painting by Edvard Munch

I feel you still
As the blood leaves my body
I feel you
My heart is tied to you
And you alone
I exist as...

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EACH TO THEIR SEPARATION 

So they meet,
He, attempting to be 
Non-committal,
Unobtrusive, showing
A better part to play,

But the fire within is scarcely stifled,
Raging as it does...

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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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Just the story of two points
directed to be different lines
As her dice destiny throws
two little lines were coming close
The game of destiny shows
How innocent lines...

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In the debt of separation
Yet we mortgage our eyes
On the firing sand of separation
Yet there has left a long way
In this barbed valley
Yet it to...

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Dream House
by Michael R. Burch

I have come to the house of my fondest dreams,
but the shutters are boarded; the front door is locked;
the mail box...

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Every night I dream of you,
Could I be in your dreams too?
Last night I saw you smiling,
A sweet smile so beguiling,
But your thoughts I could...

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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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Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind...

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