Best Ghent Poems

It's a pretty little town in northern New York State.
To visitors of the region, everything looks great.
There was one obscure fact of which I was not aware:
A big War of 1812 battle was fought there.

A large British and Canadian force started a campaign
to seize control...

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Vacation in Manhattan

Thought I was going to be bored when we

Were told we were going to see

A panel hinged shutter

My speech was beginning to stutter

Jan van Eyck’s nude art I see


12/28/2015 

The Ghent Altarpiece by  Jan van Eyck is a very large and complex...

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bridges

The kids, their teacher, sprouts and dandelions
the aquarellist and a wet bicycle.
Sit on the worm bench as bytes on the mainframe
wiped pastel of a bright warmth with shades of red

        gray

as I look down I find more than...

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Once was a young fellow in Ghent
His dog followed where’er he went
As the years swiftly passed,
His dog he would outlast
Now he’s a sad, lonesome old gent.

written February 24, 2022...

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Wrinkle at the line
creams  for the age gap!
Holiday in France this year
 friends, friends fill an hour.

Or two. Home I say:
danced to nostalgia 
in boxes and mind  pills.
Then straight jacketed. 

Sweet as sultanas
The dreams curbed me in.
A beam houses in Ghent,
One you lived...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI

On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right miss
how the hell can he kiss
when his horn deforms her esophagus?

On the Horns of a Dilemma (II)
by Michael R. Burch

Love...

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Poor soldier Andrew Jackson who
Attacked the British after peace 
Was signed three weeks before at Ghent.
Unnecessary bravery 
Is no less admirable for that.
He waves to patrons eating their
Beignets at the Café Du Monde.
Astride a horse, saluting with
His bicorn hat, and stern of face,
He looks less...

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Voracious and Spacious

My poems have become a success
And spread out and also spacious;
The next thing that I then knew,
Was now a horrible Horn haiku
Readers loved vibrant and voracious. 

We are learning what writing meant;
Heard about great place called Ghent;
There ability to write people possess
And never...

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There was an old lady from Ghent
Who tooted wherever she went
Sent up a cloud
Sometimes quite loud
And she never attracted a gent.

written July 10, 2021
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Brian Strand's Contest
Poetry Soup
August 2, 2021...

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“What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight?”
by William Herebert, 14th century
translation by Michael R. Burch

Who is he, this lordling, who staggers from the fight,
with blood-red garb so grisly arrayed,
once appareled in lineaments white?
Once so seemly in sight?
Once so valiant a knight?

“It is...

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You ought to know
I need your intent
That  I'm in love now

Put  yourself in my place beau
Show your are content
You ought to know

Do not grin, allow
There's no time like Lent 
That I'm in love now

Ask yourself why with a glow
Is there something of Ghent
You...

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Le Nouveau Monde,Le bistrot du Lounge
the foods here caused a conversation
One that had several people to find
 facts that made them wonder.
In film research, exploratory research
 is often referred to as formulative research
 or practice-based research. It focuses on
 gathering preliminary information to
 understand a...

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