Bright Light Poems

New day spring has sprung
 prequel before cleansing 
Father so cleanses the air 
evaporated wet air rain 
with raindrops of cooling rain
 this thing falls...

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My open-ended lines can convey more than one idea. Verse 3, middle line, ends in “I am.” I am both okay (today) & puddles on...

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In the canvas of life, both dark and bright, 
Where shadows dance and beams ignite, 
A tapestry woven with hues so vast, 
The essence of...

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Gifted with my guiding light
All packaged up and bright
Initial reaction was amazed
Blown away but acted unfazed
Words couldn’t express how I felt
My insides instantly began to...

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Flowers in bloom
Sky’s of blue
Pink pink petals
All around you
Everything’s greener
Hope’s anew
All because you decided
on a different view 
hopeful sunrises replace
Dreadful nights
bright orange sky’s instead
Of a...

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Creater and Maker…
Artist Divine, Potter of clay.
World shaper, Master sublime…
Our Father, Oh,how great! 
God incarnate.

Incarnate,  God made flesh, For his children he loves. ...

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Once upon a recent time not long ago
A beacon shone, its brilliance aglow.
With a vision as vast as the starry sky
This light embodied, Kwame Nkrumah,...

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light …

and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the...

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Light Is Life


The sun looks different when Spring is here
Lining up through the sky to my window
Eerie sometimes, or confusing, I peer
This weird light shines...

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In the depths of her despair, she's confined,
A solitary figure, lost in her mind,
Engulfed by shadows, no end in sight,
She battles demons in the darkest...

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"Tyger, tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night…"
Archaic spelling set aside,
And not intending to be snide,
But really, Mr. Blake, I take exception.
While a tiger's...

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I found the reason to stay alive, 
To keep the show running,
To keep on fighting 
When the night is cold 
And when the sun is...

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Birthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch

LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing...

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We are blessed with our planet and its solar system
the sun shines bringing heat to us and plants
that brighten everything with blasts of colour
and aroma...

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astronomers often describe
the path of their heavenly ride
far off in the distant night sky
defining what's higher than high
luminous wavelength emitters
heavenly hosts all aglitter
lost in gravitational...

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