Best Cited Poems

A Tribute to Golda

It was a clear and bright sun shining morning in May.
As I came out my front door into the breezeway,
I saw coming...

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within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the...

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A dog by the side of the road
Whelped out her cute little load
A copper who saw
Reeled off the law
Cited for littering I’m told...

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When you think your world has ended
You feel you can't go on
There's people you have befriended
Will help you to become strong

Your marriage has just failed
It's...

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For as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad;
keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad.
Caging prolific zebra finches...

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Ten little leaves are shaking,
A yellow one drifted down.
Nine little leaves left trembling,
A brown one fell to the ground.
8 little leaves a’blowing,
When a gray one...

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An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
 
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of...

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The days pass in a haze of ignorance 
Even your closest friend may leave to follow sheep
I could spend years trying to give this topic...

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Coronavirus COVID-19


Coronavirus! What is it? 
Is a virus or is it a bit 
Of China using your sinus
To infect the COVID-19 virus
As biological weapon
To teach...

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A practical man with a talent for wood
viewed each morning as an omen for good
He tilled the land wisely 
and preached the goodness of God
but...

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When one makes viable peace 
Between erstwhile colonial whites 
And erstwhile colonized blacks 
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such...

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HANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING



fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so...

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From the Pearl of the Orient
A name was born without dent
A laureate in reticence
A paradigm beyond silence

Composer, poet and lyricist
Over four thousand songs on his...

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Noah and the Flood  4-3-14

A practical man with a talent for wood
 viewed each morning as an omen for good
He tilled the land wisely...

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There was a pastor named Caste
Whose habit of swearing was vast.
Some said his firing was near
But Caste cited nothing to fear
“You see, I repent too...

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