I am not sure if I should tell this tale,
Since it is an imagining, not real.
Yet it was an episode I want to remember
In real life, January to December.
Still in deepest slumber I vaguely heard
What sounded to be a distant door open,
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 41 Views added 6 months ago
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A curious thing I have observed in life’s grand scheme,
In this world, vast and extreme,
There is a profound duality that forever exists.
A rule of twos persists.
Could good be understood
If evil did not exist?
Would virtue be appreciated... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 9 Views added 6 months ago
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Where Art Thou
by Max Burchett
Would that I can find
That through love
I should see, though blind,
The pathway to the will... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 6 Views added 6 months ago
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Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Set sail on an ocean,
An unknown sea,
At times adrift, unknown destination,
No compass or charts to see.
No return to original harbor
I must sail on,
Perilous to halt, cannot anchor
In this ship not chosen.
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 31 Views added 6 months ago
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This poem used for the lyrics of the pop song of the same name. Available on SoundCloud at soundcloud.com/maxburchett/again
by Max Burchett
Just between you and me,
This is how it should be.
I promise,
I’ll be here.
Think I always knew,
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 29 Views added 6 months ago
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Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Some say, and believe, bad luck lurks in threes.
That a triplet of troubles and woes, even doom,
Can be expected to appear, joined in a trio for despair.
Bad luck, they say, unfolds in a three-act play,
With... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 524 Views added 6 months ago
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Maxwell Sebastian Burchett
Black swans are a thing.
That thing never seen before,
Not known to exist,
What has never happened before.
If you can think of it,
Can expect or imagine it,
That swan is not black, or a swan
Just a strange... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 535 Views added 6 months ago
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Max Burchett
As fast as I can
Running on, on and on
With hope this carries me to
Where I want to go
Higher and higher with you.
As time goes by,
Finding wings to fly,
Carried on the wind
By the love I find
In your arms, such a high.... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 28 Views added 6 months ago
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by Max Burchett
Hard to know
What is real now.
Who to believe,
Who will deceive.
This is truth
As I know it,
Yet I never say, my truth,
Since surely truth is absolute.
I will say to you.
I believed some lies.
Got pulled in, it’s... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 530 Views added 6 months ago
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Maxwell Burchett
Only those completely trusted,
Can completely betray.
Trust gained at great cost,
The one treasure once lost
That can never be recovered.
Betrayal leaves a stain,
A shadow on the heart.
Trust once lost, rarely... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 25 Views added 6 months ago
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Max Burchett
Isn’t it what we all want to be?
Someone who all can see
Is stronger and braver,
Man of steel or greater.
Could that be you, or me?
What I know it seems
Is it may not be,
Hasn’t been for me,
The man on the screen
Who... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 530 Views added 6 months ago
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Max Burchett
No, no, no,
Can’t go back.
No do over, no,
Oh, I want to go back.
A past moment in time
Exists only in my mind.
It hurts to know
I can never go back, no.
If I could try again,
Oh, what could have been,
Now gone with... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 43 Views added 6 months ago
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Max Burchett
Who’s to say,
Which way,
What or why,
In this life one should try.
The imperative seems to me
To do something more
Than just to get by carefree.
Must be more we are here for.
Is the purpose to conquer this world?
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 535 Views added 6 months ago
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Refugee
by Max Burchett
I met a man, homeless he said.
Home was wherever he stood.
He had no house, no doors, no locks,
As long as there were sidewalks,
That was his bed.
There he laid his head.
Every day I see, wondering what to do.
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,032 Views added 7 months ago
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The Man on Chapman Road
by Max Burchett
As I was driving the usual way,
Out Chapman Road to start the day,
I saw him standing there.
I stopped and had to stare.
I was shocked to see
The face of someone I had seen,
Never in life, but in a... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,048 Views added 7 months ago
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Until Then
by Max Burchett
Listen free to new pop song on SoundCloud based on lyrics of this “Until Then” poem
https://soundcloud.com/maxburchett/until-then
Through the years and years,
what a life it has been.
Together fighting for
what... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,082 Views added 7 months ago
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Me to You
by Max Burchett
New song with lyrics based on this poem
https://soundcloud.com/maxburchett/me-to-you
Though nobody else could see,
I knew what was best for me.
Went the winding way I knew I had to go,
There were some who said I... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,110 Views added 8 months ago
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Three Whispered Words
by Max Burchett
Fame and fortune I sought,
And I found, but at high cost.
Then I found it was not all that I thought.
Then in your love I found the most.
Whispered words that fan love’s fire, inspire burning desire,... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,667 Views added 9 months ago
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Peace
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
Wars and rumors of war
it is said will be forevermore.
If that is the fate of mankind,
what are we to do?
How can we find
a time of peace, harmony too?
First could be
to find a way somehow
to... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,661 Views added 9 months ago
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Ukraine
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
It is said and now I believe,
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
There is no end it seems
To the horrors and death from the scourge of war.
When the ambitions of men collide
With the... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,757 Views added 9 months ago
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After the Rain
by Max Burchett
It was famously said,
Love comforts like sunshine after rain.
An expression of hope for what is ahead,
A mantra for those who have known pain.
Rain it will, on the just and the unjust.
Pray that for the... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 75 Views added 10 months ago
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Unknown Soldiers
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
One Memorial Day made me consider
The many tombs to unknown soldiers,
In memoriam to the lost
From wars then and now,
Unnamed ghosts.
Is memory of all without any names,
The memory of... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,759 Views added 10 months ago
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Glory to the Departed
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
I had to be free!
Now I am gone,
But remember me
So freedom goes on.
Not an easy road to take.
Hope there is another way for you.
Pray it is not your fate
To die for freedom’s... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,671 Views added 10 months ago
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Good Day
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
I present these lyrics today,
For you to consider if you would,
An idea I propose, to find a way
To designate a day for doing good.
It is about time now
We start finding a way
That leads us... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 1,697 Views added 10 months ago
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The Gift
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
However you say the name,
Mom, Mum, Momma, Mommy,
We all feel the same.
Dear Mother, Thank you!
For all you did for me.
You did not have to,
I know it was all a genuine gift,
You wanted to.
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 2,273 Views added 11 months ago
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Abyss of Addiction
by Maxwell "Max" Sebastian Burchett
In every street and town
Poisons abound,
Tricking the mind,
Destroying the brain.
Some seek it out
For cheaper effect,
But have to pay with their bodies
And pay with their lives.
... – by Maxwell Sebastian Burchett | 5,273 Views added 1 year ago
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