Funny Allegory Poems

The moon being long heroic tonight 
     and somehow empamper 
    and duped and chopped and patted and...

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I haven’t heard from you in a few days
My heart is certainly ablaze
And you’re probably acrazed
Somewhere.

My gosh, you haven’t changed your ways
My friend, frankly, I...

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Clever in my literacy 
Impaired in my itinerary 
Noted for variety 
Daunting in my propriety 
A jaunting of notoriety 
For wanting serenity 
exempted from purity
Quaint...

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Sometimes I'm just a clown hanging around
making others happy when I make funny sounds
Jokes they tell at school that often break the rules
Pretending to be...

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air rockets skyward
uppercutting inside
plastic neon flesh
contorting at inhuman angles
what does my body language spell?

ankles anchored into the Earth
to stay grounded as the wave
of time and...

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Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams

POEMS

Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch

Every corona has a...

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in love with Bunny 
who has a taste for honey 
seeming so funny
to see pay much money
while weather is sunny...

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I am terrified and this is love
Resignation; this is love
Yours is fiercer than mine, less green
Pale, flowing as a riverbed and more of it
Yours is...

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when my poems mumble
find words around will fumble
stupid and on would stumble

are things cat enjoys
likes playing with kitty toys
and girls with boys

while idiots will bloom
for...

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mercury and sunshine
will see you walking around sunset 
thought you are the ghost 
which 
come to frighten up the children 
how on earth do ghost...

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A new toy I found in the mall
for my beloved pet, 
a different toy from a ball, 
the one she loves to play with.
 ...

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I consider the Doctor
     a friend who heals.
    What  about the Dentist
    who extracts...

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I’m dry; the muse has packed her bags,
unfriended me and left.
No rhymes have come to mind at all.
Of words I am bereft.

In need of verse,...

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Rymes
I have told you so many times
I'm starting to get good at these rhymes 
I'm the master of of the pen
Since I can't remember when
Hope...

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