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Peace Prayer

Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch

Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Be one with the buffalo cropping the grass to a safer height.

Seek the composure of the great depths, barely moved by exterior storms.

Lift your face to the dawning light; feel how it warms.

And be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.

Published by Hibiscus (India), Ethos Literary Journal, The Peacemaker, Lullabies Behind My Eyelids, The Episcopal Church of St. Matthew (San Mateo, CA) and Mad Hatter

Passionate One

This is a love poem I wrote for my wife Beth. 

Passionate One
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Love of my life,
light of my morning,
arise brightly dawning,
for you are my sun.

Give me of heaven
both manna and leaven,
Desirous Presence,
Passionate One.

Keywords/Tags: poem, poetry, love, life, passion, desire, dawn, light, sun, heaven, manna, leaven

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The Celtic Cross at Île Grosse
by Michael R. Burch

Passionate One

This is a love poem I wrote for my wife Beth. 

Passionate One
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Love of my life,
light of my morning,
arise brightly dawning,
for you are my sun.

Give me of heaven
both manna and leaven,
Desirous Presence,
Passionate One.

Keywords/Tags: poem, poetry, love, life, passion, desire, dawn, light, sun, heaven, manna, leaven

 

Bright Of Dawn

Dawn is an eternal woman spirit of grace, arising with a soft sigh in summer's endearment, under a vast canopy of orange-red heavens, her curves are the deep green mountains laying luxuriously in great age, yet, with the newness of emerald sapling trees, I'm captivated by the glory of morning, as a dewy spider's web glistens and sparkles in nature's ornamental fashion, the whippoorwill surrenders her starlight concert to the chirping sparrows, and the wood fairies stretch their translucent wings.

Dawn

dawn breaks through
between the hills
where light fragments
 
in spectral colors
 
as we snap to attention
to march on, beyond
the rest of morning chores

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