Best Pointed Poems

The difference in saying you,
a great big unseen pointed finger, or we.
I didn’t know. Some figurines
wave while others scrutinize with wizened eyes.
The analytic panics, hairs raised by static.
The simple leans in to catch butterflies. One is cynical.
The other sensuous. One slaps your hand away.
One squeezes...

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My dear friend I keep you often in my mind
You guided me to my native path 
Dancing with me through feilds of time
Where to an Elder I have talked at last
To find what might be my truer name 
Though Red Pony I hold close as
She...

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Moses one of the great prophets
showing Christ as an even greater prophet
both sent by God to do His will (Ex 3: 1-12/ John 6: 57)
forever we are in their debt

Both born under remarkable circumstances( Ex 2: 1-16/ John 20: 30)
as well as under threat of...

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With sadness and a deeply furrowed brow
I am apalled at the hate and wonder how
this world will somehow manage to survive
while bigotry and enmity eats humans alive

Lines are drawn between black and white
by those with penchants to bicker and fight
Words fly like feathers plucked over...

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Fingers are wrongly pointed in accusation
Assuming poems are written for intimidation
Voices raised in needless defense cry aloud
As they huddle and mutter among the crowd

Consider how your allegations must sound
As you toss foolish words and slurs all around
Don't defame those whose troubles you don't know
You've no...

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Day in, and day out, from the ripe old age of five,
I’ve take to sharp objects and whittled at their sides.

Lancing pristine white paper with brazen blue veins,
it was quite impossible for me to abstain.

Day in, and day out, from the egg to the cane,
with...

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A bibliographic oceanographic espionage is merely a tidal titan in a mesmerising swimsuit sipping tequila sunrise on a pool side sun lounger on a large eighty foot yacht. Tactless men who smear defecation in print are quite often timely reminders of the inportantance of inner...

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They miss the point
with their pointed finger
as if the soul can be pointed at
and found out.  True the finger
does not mean to injure,
but it is so very pointed....

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Well bless your little pointed head
You catch me when I fall
And thanks for finding cushions
When I slam into a wall
You always know I'm somewhere
There's no buffalo to roam
I'm mapless and I'm clueless
But quite sure I'm close to home
So bless your little pointed head
You answer when...

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The left hands we carry,
that imitates so well what
we call ‘the right’
keep telling us
there is nothing to it,
because they can do it,
and eventually they will
correct whatever it was
that caused the problem
of not being able to cool down
with just an inch of water
lapping against our toes,
which...

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This vexing pencil in turgid fingers I gracelessly hold
  Sorcerer's lead conjures up casuistic captions, fools' gold

My peripatetic purple pen winks at my commands
  Dancing to a distant drummer on sun-scorched parchment sands

A cunning keyboard mocks me, in cast-iron briefcase locked
  Contrarian...

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Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch

The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.

The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s neurotic kiss.



Post-Modern Muse
Michael R. Burch

The anachronism in your poetry
is that...

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Is the cruelest of all cancers ironies ?

Not that it is to be met 
or end in death ?

Nor the suffering the disease itself
inflicts ?

On both the terminal and those left ?

But rather how it brings us together
than ever before ?

Unfortunately to late ?

And how...

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Point me a finger
And at least just consider
My desperate state

Point me a finger
Even though in disgust
And calm this little dust

Point me a finger 
Even if the middle one
And I’ll make you the little one

Point me a finger 
Even though in anger
And I’ll knock a little...

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steel pointed angel made of knives
epitome of juxtaposition
shiny, beautiful, glitzy, welcoming
also crass, sharp, frightening, dangerous
what mind thought to build her?
she shows both sides of every woman
scary really...

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