Best Dispensers Poems

Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch 

To outfox the pox: 
kill yourself first, with Clorox!

And since death is the goal, 
mainline Lysol! 

No vaccine?
Just chug Mr. Clean!

Is a cure out of reach?
Fumigate your lungs, with bleach!

To immunize your thorax,
destroy it with Borax!

To immunize...

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Our public toilets have been locked
to stop people from stealing
The depths that some folk stoop to
is really quite revealing

They stole the toilet paper
from dispensers on the wall
And hand sanitiser from the sink
folk were left with none at all

The actions of selfish people
have spoilt it for...

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No one in particular (in the wake of our dreams)

We don’t look like they do,
graphic replicas of a life in tatters,
drifting on lonesome clouds
Dove’s wing spread
capturing the wind,
waving goodbye to an existence
that dreams in black and white,
fashioning commercials
like chip and salsa dispensers

Camouflaged by sadness,
greens and...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my secrets
For I open my heart
In this enclosed sanctuary of God
As folded branches draw my eyes
Upward, ever upward
Towards the emerald ceiling
With...

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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
but I have promises to keep, 
and miles to go before I sleep” (Robert Frost).

The woods know my secrets
For I open my heart
In this enclosed sanctuary of God
As folded branches draw my eyes
Upward, ever upward
Towards the emerald ceiling
With...

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I am not your daughter
I will wear pink and red together
Just because they don’t match
I will dye my hair black
Not only just because you said not to 
But because I know I’m not a blonde 
At heart, like you.  Even though when my hair’s
Natural...

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Baseball cards and hula hoops
  Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup

Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
  Mamie and Ike in the White House

American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll
  Elvis the Pelvis, Nat King Cole

Pez Dispensers and Kool-Aid
  Bedtime for Bonzo, Panty Raids

Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile
 ...

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I’m a young woman living the American dream
working in a fast food restaurant 
this is not what I dreamed of but 
I got to be supporting my family, 
to make them proud

Working in the McDonalds restaurant is my American dream
Flipping Big Macs, Serving them, calling...

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I attended a meeting with, supposedly a friend, and was introduced to
Despised, Dehumanized, Decreased, Diminished, Disregarded, and Devalued,                           ...

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Who dares to be so presumptuous as to declare Nature's 
wonders……flowers, trees, birds and bees……unimportant

A tree reaches forth to receive the sunlight
It's branches are welcoming of birds in flight
A flower sprinkles its scent upon the air
In order that bees may find it there
Is there a...

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hours of summer fun
bobbing heads
to pez dispensers



posted on June 21, 2018...

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To teach kids about hieroglyphs
We can show them doctor's prescription slips
For this illegible version
Exactly tallies its description
Medicos scrawl letters with awkward curves
And to read you've to strain nerves
While reading the prescribed drugs
Often a dispenser sneers and shrugs
The prescription of 'pheniramine'
Often gets misread as 'amphetamine'
If they...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe distance
let me admire your persistence.



Less Heroic Couplets: Less than Impressed
by...

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To teach kids about hieroglyphs
We can show them doctor's prescription slips
For this illegible version
Exactly tallies its description
Medicos scrawl letters with awkward curves
And to read you've to strain nerves
While reading the prescribed drugs
Often a dispenser sneers and shrugs
The prescription of 'pheniramine'
Often gets misread as 'amphetamine'
If they...

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Her optimism solid in her roots of red white and blue
Gallant knight was coming in princely form any time now
A waitress in every small town of America
Grinned her grin, showing her cutesy petootsieness
Her over polite ways parking a place until he arrived.
Hold tight, America, keep...

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