Submissions by BruceBurkard
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
My name is Bruce Burkard and I compose poetry on the following subjects; spiritual, nature, political, and nonsense.
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
2nd Feb 2012 2:04pm
2nd Feb 2012 2:04pm
The Golden Age
The Golden Age will dawn
When all of earth's children
Embrace each other
With hugs of love -
And
Recognize that all are related
As brothers and sisters
Of the same heavenly father.
If
Each child prayed each day
To God
To expand the consciousness
Of each child on earth -
And embrace the above thought -
The Golden Age
Would be just around the corner.
When all of earth's children
Embrace each other
With hugs of love -
And
Recognize that all are related
As brothers and sisters
Of the same heavenly father.
If
Each child prayed each day
To God
To expand the consciousness
Of each child on earth -
And embrace the above thought -
The Golden Age
Would be just around the corner.
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Feb 2012 2:26pm
1st Feb 2012 2:26pm
A Mysty Day
There is something about a
Misty day -
When clouds lower down
And valleys between the hills
In mist do lie.
Looking down
From the top of a high hill
Is like looking up
At a cloudy sky.
Off in the distance one can see
The peaks of mountains
And the tops of trees
Rising above the swirling mists.
I can't explain it -
But there is something
Comforting
About being in the midst
Of a day such as this.
Perhaps -
It is the sound of quiet -
The sound of love
Radiating from the
Mist and...
Misty day -
When clouds lower down
And valleys between the hills
In mist do lie.
Looking down
From the top of a high hill
Is like looking up
At a cloudy sky.
Off in the distance one can see
The peaks of mountains
And the tops of trees
Rising above the swirling mists.
I can't explain it -
But there is something
Comforting
About being in the midst
Of a day such as this.
Perhaps -
It is the sound of quiet -
The sound of love
Radiating from the
Mist and...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Feb 2012 2:15pm
1st Feb 2012 2:15pm
A Wish for You
I wish for you a garden
Where love will ever increase.
Where row upon row of joyful bliss
Grow towering flowers of peace.
Each morning may God smile on you
With ever increasing grace,
And gentle rains from out the sky
Freshen your dear face.
May contentment be your seed of choice
As zephyr breezes blow,
So your love of God's creation
Will forever grow.
Now -
Compassion blooms within your heart
As roses perfume your bed -
And humility is a golden crown
You wear upon your head
Where love will ever increase.
Where row upon row of joyful bliss
Grow towering flowers of peace.
Each morning may God smile on you
With ever increasing grace,
And gentle rains from out the sky
Freshen your dear face.
May contentment be your seed of choice
As zephyr breezes blow,
So your love of God's creation
Will forever grow.
Now -
Compassion blooms within your heart
As roses perfume your bed -
And humility is a golden crown
You wear upon your head
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
31st Jan 2012 1:33pm
31st Jan 2012 1:33pm
A Swim
The Friend is like unto
A vast ocean
Of spirituality
And -
He is waiting for you
To dive headlong into
His shore less sea
But First
You have to become
Bare assed naked-
No body
No Mind
No intellect
Dearest Wayfarer,
Are you
Preparing yourself
For a swim?
A vast ocean
Of spirituality
And -
He is waiting for you
To dive headlong into
His shore less sea
But First
You have to become
Bare assed naked-
No body
No Mind
No intellect
Dearest Wayfarer,
Are you
Preparing yourself
For a swim?
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
31st Jan 2012 1:24pm
31st Jan 2012 1:24pm
On Far Lands
I saw one day a garden
Of exquisite beauty rare -
Of inner peace and refuge
All golden colored fair.
Shimmering lakes and forests,
Wild flowers, lawn -
Majestic mountains wearing
The blush of early dawn.
Yet; were you not beside me
Each new dream to share
Golden colored far lands
Would be tawdry - bare.
For the delight of discovery
Would be barren empty night -
If the Friend not enclose me
And fill my space with light.
Of exquisite beauty rare -
Of inner peace and refuge
All golden colored fair.
Shimmering lakes and forests,
Wild flowers, lawn -
Majestic mountains wearing
The blush of early dawn.
Yet; were you not beside me
Each new dream to share
Golden colored far lands
Would be tawdry - bare.
For the delight of discovery
Would be barren empty night -
If the Friend not enclose me
And fill my space with light.
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Jan 2012 2:34pm
30th Jan 2012 2:34pm
Crazy Guy
God has made a giant swing
Between the Andromeda Galaxy
And the Milky Way.
Yesterday I saw Him
Swinging there
Up between the stars.
God is not a
Somber being -
For -
When you get to
Know Him
You will find Him
To be
A wild and crazy Guy.
Yes -
Crazy with love for you.
Between the Andromeda Galaxy
And the Milky Way.
Yesterday I saw Him
Swinging there
Up between the stars.
God is not a
Somber being -
For -
When you get to
Know Him
You will find Him
To be
A wild and crazy Guy.
Yes -
Crazy with love for you.
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
30th Jan 2012 2:27pm
30th Jan 2012 2:27pm
The Friends Complaint
In all the worlds
Different scriptures
They declare that God
Lives in the temples
He has made.
The ones we call
The human body.
The Friend has said,
"The children of the world
Have de-throned me
And placed me in the temples,
Churches, and mosques
They have made."
The Friend says,
"I am the light within them -
But they just light candles
Outside."
Is it not written -
Take heed that the light
Within you is not darkness.
Dearest Pilgrim,
The Friend asks,...
Different scriptures
They declare that God
Lives in the temples
He has made.
The ones we call
The human body.
The Friend has said,
"The children of the world
Have de-throned me
And placed me in the temples,
Churches, and mosques
They have made."
The Friend says,
"I am the light within them -
But they just light candles
Outside."
Is it not written -
Take heed that the light
Within you is not darkness.
Dearest Pilgrim,
The Friend asks,...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
27th Jan 2012 1:28pm
27th Jan 2012 1:28pm
Man's Destiny
Man's destiny
Has forever been
To know himself first
And then to know God.
To be able to see and understand
God is in each and every child,
In each and every animal,
In each and every plant,
In each and every stone.
The Friend says,
"In minerals the consciousness
Is sleeping,
In plant life the consciousness
Is dreaming.
In animals the consciousness
Is awakening.
In man the consciousness
Is awake."
The planet earth and all
Of the cosmos
Is also a part of the
Consciousness of God -...
Has forever been
To know himself first
And then to know God.
To be able to see and understand
God is in each and every child,
In each and every animal,
In each and every plant,
In each and every stone.
The Friend says,
"In minerals the consciousness
Is sleeping,
In plant life the consciousness
Is dreaming.
In animals the consciousness
Is awakening.
In man the consciousness
Is awake."
The planet earth and all
Of the cosmos
Is also a part of the
Consciousness of God -...
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
27th Jan 2012 1:13pm
27th Jan 2012 1:13pm
Inner Eye
I saw an eye
In my inner vision,
I thought it to be
The eye of God -
Then -
It changed
Into my own eye.
Later -
I thought,
Perhaps it was
The eye
Of God after-all
Looking back
On itself.
In my inner vision,
I thought it to be
The eye of God -
Then -
It changed
Into my own eye.
Later -
I thought,
Perhaps it was
The eye
Of God after-all
Looking back
On itself.
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2012 1:30pm
26th Jan 2012 1:30pm
Envelopes
There is no distance
Between you and the Friend,
And the Friends entire creation.
Everything is right where you stand.
Are you aware that you stand
At the very center of the Friend creation,
And that creation goes out
From you to infinity?
One envelope away from you
Is your astral form.
One envelope away from your astral form
Is your causal form.
One envelope away from your causal form
Is your super causal form.
Remove all these envelopes
From your soul
And you become formless -
One with the creator.
...
Between you and the Friend,
And the Friends entire creation.
Everything is right where you stand.
Are you aware that you stand
At the very center of the Friend creation,
And that creation goes out
From you to infinity?
One envelope away from you
Is your astral form.
One envelope away from your astral form
Is your causal form.
One envelope away from your causal form
Is your super causal form.
Remove all these envelopes
From your soul
And you become formless -
One with the creator.
...
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OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Jan 2012 1:11pm
26th Jan 2012 1:11pm
Circus of Life
The Consciousness (Life)
Is like unto a large circus tent
Where all of life's events play out
In its many rings.
You are the producer of the shows.
You are the script writer.
You are the ring master
Directing the many acts.
You are the acts themselves -
From the lion trainer
To the trapeze artist
To the clowns.
And -
All the other characters
That make up
Your circus of life.
Is like unto a large circus tent
Where all of life's events play out
In its many rings.
You are the producer of the shows.
You are the script writer.
You are the ring master
Directing the many acts.
You are the acts themselves -
From the lion trainer
To the trapeze artist
To the clowns.
And -
All the other characters
That make up
Your circus of life.
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
25th Jan 2012 1:14pm
25th Jan 2012 1:14pm
Hidden in Plain View
Did you not see Him at dawn
In that orange red sky?
Or in that flock of birds
Just flying by?
Or in that old mans wrinkled face?
Or in the weed
That's known as
Queen Ann's lace?
Did you see Him
In that new born baby's smile?
Or in the pyramids
On the Nile?
Out in the Milky Way
He's there -
And in a child's
Evening prayer.
He's in that Marlin caught
On some fisherman's line.
He's there in the wind blown
Oceans Brine.
He's in the mountains
The rivers and trees -
And He is in you...
In that orange red sky?
Or in that flock of birds
Just flying by?
Or in that old mans wrinkled face?
Or in the weed
That's known as
Queen Ann's lace?
Did you see Him
In that new born baby's smile?
Or in the pyramids
On the Nile?
Out in the Milky Way
He's there -
And in a child's
Evening prayer.
He's in that Marlin caught
On some fisherman's line.
He's there in the wind blown
Oceans Brine.
He's in the mountains
The rivers and trees -
And He is in you...
573 reads
2 Comments
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