In the abyss of silence, where thoughts are born like falling stars
...In the abyss of silence, where thoughts are born like falling stars,
We let ourselves be carried by the invisible currents of unspoken dreams,
Searching among the shadows of time for a meaning that...
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Categories:
vaster, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Abode of God
...It is from heart that all desires arise
so therein too they must be satisfied,
which requires our ego to vaporise,
whence light of God in cave of heart is spied.
We affirm we have been, seen an...
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Categories:
vaster, god, heart, joy, light,
Form: Sonnet
The Great Gig in the Sky
...The recent, decent, authorised remaster -
now deeper, fuller, meaningfully vaster,
it’s done its fifty years – this one’s a laster!
I don’t care if you’re reggaeton or Rasta,
you worship Satan, S...
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Categories:
vaster, music,
Form: Sonnet
Loneliness is just an ivy
...Loneliness is just an ivy,
It creeps through your window, unhurried,
It doesn't diminish the darkness of the night, nor chase away hidden demons,
It just sits there, with legs crossed, letting the...
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Categories:
vaster, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I was born to love people, to be a traveler through their hidden hearts
...I was born to love people, to be a traveler through their hidden hearts,
To discover the inner gardens, where the flowers of triumphs rise from the soil of sufferings.
Every smile evaluates me with...
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Categories:
vaster, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
We stand on the edges of the silence's abyss, you and I, in contemplation
...We stand on the edges of the silence's abyss, you and I, in contemplation,
Looking at each other, but in silence, against the backdrop of a tumultuous world.
Separated by a deep silence, vaster tha...
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Categories:
vaster, silence,
Form: Free verse
If There Were No Tomorrow's
...If there were no tomorrow
I would have no sorrow
The life I have had
Has made me glad
If there were no tomorrow
I have lived on time that was borrowed
The joy of knowing
Has kept me going
The...
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Categories:
vaster, dedication,
Form: Epitaph
Youll Never Come Back
...("Nonbinary", 2023, original encaustic)
You’ll Never Come Back…
Thrown into an ocean
Deeper and vaster than thought
Carried on waves of sound
Waves of light
Propelled on waves of bl...
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Categories:
vaster, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Shakespeare
...POEMS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE by Michael R. Burch
Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch
a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!
Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to...
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Categories:
vaster, philosophy, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets Ix
...POEMS ABOUT POETS IX
Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch
a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!
@mikerburch
Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to Shakespea...
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Categories:
vaster, poems, poetry, poets, write,
Form: Rhyme
Daily Heavenly Truths
...When sage people drinking drinks
Which called "daily heavenly truths,"
They getting higher,
Better,stronger
And vaster.
July 25/2023...
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Categories:
vaster, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
wrap -
...
I couldn’t …
shatter the pane
or fly, either
couldn’t press weary wings to wind …
and glide
for they were bound -
wrapped like a leper in a crowd
and just as unclean -
just as … withered ...
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Categories:
vaster, addiction, analogy, dark, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Oceans
...My boyfriend (Peter) and I went down to New Haven Harbor today.
Let’s face it, we’re surrounded by oceans,
and most of them are downright inhospitable.
I live near the ocean, (pointing) it’s r...
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Categories:
vaster, books, boyfriend, ocean, space,
Form: Rhyme
The Holy Sky Staying So High
...See the Sky which is vaster than the Sea,
We are all given by that miraculous glee,
Fee for that is not even a single Rupee,
He is blessing you and of course me!
Delight gives Sky in the dark n...
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Categories:
vaster, god, sky,
Form: Quatrain
Archibald the Maverick Pastor
...Fifty-year old pastor Archibald
And already the vessel is bald
Now cold not red heat would the priest scald;
Now 'irritable'when he is called...
For twenty years now A Pastor:
Would not sit on...
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Categories:
vaster, analogy, character, health, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
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