Lyric Sunset Poems

Nothing that God created is dull...
harmony is found in clouds, in immense space,
in earthly landscapes, in sunrises that blaze;
if nothing stupefies us, these will!

Every sunset...

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The lawyer is calling 
Or the Hawk is coming 
But the rockets land the same 
In Sunset Town, 
They all go to ground 
Maybe back...

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Underneath the ash and ruins,
I’ve been stumbling upon your guilt, woes and shame
The wild fires of our hearts are aflame by our sins
I’ve been looking...

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You’re my Phoenix from the start in flight
You stole my only melody
Made it stronger, baby
Loveshine, I still love you
I love you true
I love you, I...

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(To be sung to the tune of Journey's "Open Arms")

[Here are the original lyrics by Journey]

Open Arms
Lying beside you, here in the dark
Feeling your heartbeat...

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We’ve yet to share a sunset
Or a harvest moon
I’m waiting for the sunrise
I spend next to you

You take me to the moon
And more than back...

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Solitude of Iris Incense Nightfall

Still solitude drips saffron in sunsets
Twilight tinsel tames tangerine tempests
Lilac lullaby lilts lulling lyric –
Diadems of daydreams dulcet delight
Offers ochre cheerful...

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Autumn is a time in the spirit of a man 
     When he walks down the beach
    ...

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miraculous ruby sunrise at dawn, gossamer twilight mauve sunset -
scintillating stars at midnight sky ..moments of divine awe,
playful creepers on the fence, vermillion rose-bush in...

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With return to summer tree of berries red -
   he flashes ‘tween the green scene like a trinket;
     ...

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Are we still dreaming and hoping
that nothing changes our longing,
or what we have envisioned?
Is it a paradise wrongly imagined,
or something soon to be realized? 
Can...

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Again no joy awaits me
after having known
how fate sways thoughts
and makes one surrender quickly
without any words of regret;
can one be persuaded with a threat?

Again no...

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My days aren't different from those
of an ordinary guy who dreams,
who is afraid to find out in minutes
how much it will cost him in tears...

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When skies are grey and clouds are weeping, 
Lightning hurls its fiery thorn,
Reach for the stars behind the clouds, 
There shines a sun beyond the...

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Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.

Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset

of night is...

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