Ocean Separation Poems

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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My heaven, yes that kind of heaven was between 
his lips when he sang those songs to me, 
his guitar strings sounded like ocean waves...

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I know the aching heart 
Knows that longings
Can never be fully apart
And satisfied anymore
Through bodily meetings.

I know I can never share 
Stories of childhood tears...

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Lonely spaces 
we share in
distant places
Set apart
behind our own walls
Through the tiniest
crack I can see you
carried by the grand
hands of Chronos
An infant swaddled 
in your...

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It’s a long long time...of unbearable waiting and piercing sorrow,                         It’s a long...

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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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Like million waves of melancholic music,
Surpassing the consciousness,
Like a Traumatizing muse.
Consistent chaotic translucent perceptions,
An age of wandering afoot with deceptions.
They walk amidst a synchronized loop,
Creating...

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O my goodness, my dream! I dreamed that you were here
Your photograph hung above the mantel
You in your favorite suit: black and white
Your boyish haircut:...

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Wild, wild, the spring tide reaches the rivers height;
Strong, strong, the spring tide rolls on and on.
Glittering, glittering, the full moon rises into the sky...

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