Get Your Premium Membership

Ballooned Poems - Poems about Ballooned

A Tattoo is Born
...Something fell out of my head, a notion perhaps, I think I have birthed a tattoo a tat of a Beef Prime Rib. I like beef not ham. A slim lady had a small butterfly tattooed onto her thigh ye......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yesterday
... An oppressive still has settled the morning. The gray water of the bay is as motionless as concrete. I would like to float from here but cannot find lift even on the breath of these words, ......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, bird, inspiration, poetry, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Exulted
...Exulted! That I could inhale After the breath had ceased – The timely, saving, gasp(!) My desperate lungs did seize Ballooned my aching spirit As wings that further flight Will shower land-low ......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, life,
Form: Rhyme
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened
...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened When a boy, I wanted to be as tall as my father (he passed away October seventh two thousand and twenty linkedin to congestive heart failure), who ......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
...Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang Ever since a young lad irritable bowel syndrome in my humble pinion wracked lower abdominal area gurgled and ballooned gastrointes......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Could Die at Any Second
...I am seventy-one I could die at any second. I tell this to my nurse. She says “stop!” She calls me silly. I am seventy-one. I like it. I had a peanut butter cup and creamed soda for breakfas......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, age,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Warp, Inc
...I work for Warp It’s a warporation That builds for war And our warring nation Financed by banks With no inclination To give their thanks For the world’s cremation Wily banksters Have mas......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, america, business,
Form: Rhyme
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle After experiencing a severe, albeit violent near lethal bout of irritable bowel syndrome (yesterday night August 30th, 2023) triggered courtesy dulcola......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Festering Wound
...The family ties are frayed by a festering wound The siblings are fighting over their parent’s will, The oldest brother a younger sister has impugned. As fighting continued, another s......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, family,
Form: Villanelle
Blue Moon Over Graceland
...When Elvis Presley dreamed on high All he wanted to do was fly Like Priscilla's blue moon He ballooned with each tune And it sure made his mama cry!......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, memorial,
Form: Limerick
Boxing
...With many skeletons in her cupboard But to injurious fists offering a springboard; With wonderful ways of dodging her enemy’s horn: The stopping of a fight before a life is torn Its most enduring......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, career, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Not Really That Special, Part I
...She was a young woman named Cassidy, and she was not really lacking for looks, the type of girl who liked the party scene, would look at her phone, but not that much at books. She had only reac......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, beauty, humanity, lust, men,
Form: Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
...Juvenilia: Early Poems VI An Illusion by Michael R. Burch The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold when I awoke. She came to me w......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, poetry, poets, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 1
...Rejection Slips With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here ar......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, day, love, memory, night,
Form: Rhyme
Dust
...Dust by Michael R. Burch Flame within flame, we burned and burned relentlessly till there was nothing left to be consumed. Only ash remained, the smoke plumed like a spirit leaving its corps......

Continue reading...
Categories: ballooned, divorce, grief, loneliness, lost
Form: Verse

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry