Best Getty Poems

Fascinating day, 
Spending time with you.
Discovering many people, 
I really never knew.
Opening doors of ambition
And graciously allowing me in.
Arousing immortal emotions 
From somewhere deep with...

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summertime blazes 
a large, grumpy goat jumps
betrayed by bottle

which he tried to eat
crunches, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch munch
got glass in his teeth

all in his mouth...

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(Dedicated to Estelle Getty who died July 22, 2008.)

When we watched her, she brought about laughter.
Now she's dead and she's in the hereafter.
She died at...

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Rip ticy tac schmitty fiddy  fiddy smack

Fliddy skity zat vroom lackity crack

getty getty boom wheter zoom wack

Birder loom werter veroom lurdder
  
Doom whippty...

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Zzzzz
Zzzzz

               -Zzzzz
         ...

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JEALOUS of my poem being featured this week Ms Onclaud? It’s not like you to be so:
Petty,
Nettie
You mind floating me a loan? Rumor has it...

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This is the Horse Of A Different Color you've always
heard tell about...well and this season it's a
celebration of the heart...ceremony of the horseman as
the gypsies...

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State of the Art (II)

These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. 



What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch

What...

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I’m not string, I’m not spaghetti
And I’m certainly no yeti
With a bit more evolution
Could have been a John Paul Getty

But I love to make you...

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Poems about Poems IV

The Toast
by Michael R. Burch

For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate...

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SHE SUM THANG LIKE JAMMA LAMMA
JAMMA LAMMA DEW1
she lovey dilly, doo- woop, samma lamma too!
she get gritty, grindin' getty-up ya'll know dat
she doo!
she get's jamma...

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Here’s the arm of my giddy on…
It’s a pity that’s it’s not what you’re expecting
Inspections detected a mention 
Called weapons of mass destruction
What freaking moron...

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Poems about Poets I


The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch

for Leslie Mellichamp

The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged...

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To an delightful twilight of conversing,
And holding one another firmly to our entice bodies.
Looking profound into your exquisite eyes,
Noticing the naive of your heart,
And the...

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Naughty Johnny's behavior still shocks us
When we try to correct him he mocks us
"My rude behavior
I greatly savor
Just for you, I'll become more obnoxious!"




1/8/2023

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