Death Spiritual Poems

I was asleep 
when darkness died
Radiant joy lit up my fertile dreams,
the famine tears 
all were purity dried

My corona eyes opened wide
within the quiet void
of...

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A lot of us are not great risers
many a morning we hate that alarm
wish we could throw it out the window
but there was one with...

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Coronavirus, as all we`ll  cope:
With fever, cough, shortness breath,
Zoonotic SARS-CoV,  without scope:
Chaotic moments turn to death.

Bring heat or frost above the sands!
With time,...

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Bodies die every day. Crashes, smashes, or in their sleep.
But the soul lives on, for it cannot be killed. It is invincible.
People who grieve the...

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Our life a dazzling dream and the death a new arrival,

there is no end and never was a begginning.

Thousand centuries will gone

and will leave faint...

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The wheel of life,
the wheel of death,
Involution breaks their hold

To turn our 
consciousness inward
—and directly know the Soul

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
...

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Afflicted grievously
my whole being was invaded 
with loathsome sin-cancer cells
I was conquered by fatal pride's virus
verily smitten…
yes, spiritually sick was I…

Forsaking hypocrisy-denial’s stink, 
I yielded...

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Spiritual Alchemy

It's when you grow wings like a Phoenix 
and are one with the flames
when you rise through the ashes fueled by lifes pains,
It's when...

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Across the row, across the aisle
I look at you, you look at me
Unspoken, yet I can’t deny
It’s there but should not be

Oh what a silly...

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The spiritual warrior can free the world of fear.  Standing bravely, meeting death eye to eye, as if it were an illusion.  The...

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Tortured by iniquities’ guilt
My soul was condemned toward everlasting wrath…
Defenseless against penalty of sin.

Gripped with hypocrisy in the guise of meekness
My self-righteousness dominantly towered…
Defensive in...

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Lean Harvests
by Michael R. Burch

for T.M.

the trees are shedding their leaves again:
another summer is over.
the Christians are praising their Maker again,
but not the disconsolate plover:
i...

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Year 1968
2:00 AM
Very late
Ring Ring
It was the phone
I hesitate
Maybe it would stop
Ring Ring
I guess not
RING RING
Leaving the bed
RING RING
Shuffling to the living room
RING RI-
I answered...

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Gethsemane in Every Breath
by Michael R. Burch
 
Did heaven ever seem so far? 
Remember?we are as You were, 

but all our lives, from birth to...

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Like Children

How dear and precious is a child to me,
A lesson for this oft' proud heart to learn,
Of beauty that is simple—trusting—free,
O'er which a multitude...

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                 To achieve enlightenment,
     ...

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Her Friend
by Dylan Williamson

She tells of her friend
A girl that wore
Green that could contend
To be the most dazzling thing in her drawer
They played together
In their...

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Like an allspice insenced quartet chorus,
the spirit of the living Word unveils before us.
Holy foundational page corners turn
in cardinal winds as red letters churn,

proclamating the...

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The Calling

Hear the angels sing!
(Glorious trumpets...
start low in the distance, 
and gain in ever-increasing volumes... 
souls, voices...)

Here the angels sing! 
(Racing across the heavens...
in and...

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Heavenly Mother,
How could you bear to lose your son?
I weep reliving your agony.
Born from anxiety and despair, beneath
My stomach the babe which the State
Will judge...

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