In Celebration of Being Human

In Celebration of Being Human
by Michael Burton
ISBN 0-932776-18-3
65 pages, paperback $8.50

These passionate poems speak to the core of our experience where the meaning of life becomes palpable. They range from lyric love poems to dramatic inner battles that ring with the striving to transform evil and plumb the depth and integrity of Christian experience.

Signs and Traces

If you’ll heed his signs and traces,
God you’ll find in many places.

In the rustle of a leaf
Purge yourself of pain and grief.

In the swirling water’s flow
Feel the power that makes things grow.

In bright sun on snowy peaks
Know how God still walks and speaks.

In the surge of green spring-growing
Let your own red saps be flowing.

In the weaving of life’s tides
Find one Presence that abides.

Like the crystal, deep and pure,
Build God’s City, strong, secure.

Forge Christ’s Kingdom, friend to friend,
In love wrought strongly without end.

And, in stillness deep as night,
Pray for strength to bear the light.

Michael Burton
In Celebration of Being Human