Hope Shooting Poems

In the dark of night
I seen a light
Was it a Star from a far?
Or a Planet?
Or another sun?
And as I learned,
Could it be
When time begun?
You...

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O Glorious and Wise Empire of the East 
Slaughtered by cold winter’s wrath and the azure dragon 
For this world had no place to lay...

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In the dark sublime
You're the shooting star
Healing grim moments
Like receding glacier 

Oh shooting star
You're hope to the stoic 
Joy to the despondent 
Lighting darkest nights...

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Deep in the village, far from city's charm and gleam,
Primitive childhood days, with toys of mud we’d dream,
Swinging on tall tree branches, our airplanes up...

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I am a shooting star
with scallop wings
I feast on merriment
and follow the heavens
with a stone clad eye

I wallow through the miers
in fields of bracken brown
I...

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ONGOING ELEGY

The words you’re about to read are part of an ongoing elegy that began in 1999
after 12 students and one teacher were killed in...

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These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

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Look up, little one, at the sky so blue,
A world of wonder waiting for you.
Clouds that float and birds that soar,
The vast expanse, so much...

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I was sitting in school when 
it happened
But I didn't know, not then
I was driving home from school when
Police were breaking down the door
But I...

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Look! A Shooting Star!

Let me honor your presence (dot chalked on ‘blacksky’),
as my poems (muse offers) make light of faint hope
that one day you’ll look...

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Somethings are never gonna change,
The way you love them is gonna be the same.
Doesn't matter if they hurt you for a while,
Still, you will fight...

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shooting star
across my sky
~ renewed hope



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 17, 2020...

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Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
 
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we...

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This time in Jersey City
Another mass murder 
Was it a hate crime? 
At least six souls have gone to meet their Maker 
Personally, I wish...

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My shooting Star, your are so very bright. My shooting star, you are so beautiful. My shooting star, you fly across the dark night so...

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