Best Pshaw Poems

..."Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!

What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not Literature!
'The Road......

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...Doom and gloom sure aren't my middle names
More like upbeat and happy for which I'm famed

There ain't no damn future in promoting ill will
Each morning the sun still peeks over the hill

The......

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...STARBUCKS AND COOKIE

I sit in Barnes and Noble
Looking at the figure-display over the snack bar
Oh how out-of-place    in time    they look
Twain
Shaw
Hardy
Dickinson
Hemingway
Have read t......

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...Deception In Soup Creek

There once was a town called Soup Creek amiable and quaint
Filled with all these characters, a perfect picture they'd paint
It was founded to protect the innocent
Where ......

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...Just paid a visit to my 92 year old bother-in-law
Tells me he's still playing golf, now that's the last straw
Surely one-of-a-kind
Mind boggling I find
Won't tell me his secret, Mr. Smart......

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...Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
......

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...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch

If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;

if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads

uneasy in their beds,
be......

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...acrostic

R   Rumbling rafters! cabin fever has struck.
O   Overnight, I decided I would go
A   across state in my trusty Tempo truck 
D   driving through the night and driving solo.

T   Twen......

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...Harumph To Holiday Hoopla – Phish Pshaw!

Relieved of fatherhood Saint
Nick schtick found me
to relinquish ratty outfit, and stow away zee bras
like padding and "FAKE flowing beard,
ah...don't ......

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...Only four more months then spring will return
Pshaw! No problem, got patience to burn
A minor detail
Winter's impaled
Damn frigid stuff makes me squirm like a worm......

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...I watched his world dance to the coast line symphony,
a tune that hummed pshaw.

I thought death, silenced the story
but when remorse trots along and settles among ones heart,
haunting ghastly a......

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...“Pshaw!” My grandmother said
as she thumped and bumped about
her crowded kitchen
steam rising, having
heated conversation with herself

Rankled by my grandfather's
latest excuse for n......

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...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch

If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;

if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads

uneasy in their beds,
be......

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...In spite of the news, it's time for some giggles
Forget about threats of long range missiles
Just chuckle and yee haw
Don't you worry, pshaw
The guys in charge are definitely infantile ki......

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...Only when yours truly busies himself...

Feigning to emulate NON GMO
garden variety English major oh just so
ho-hum, this ousted son and cingular bro
biological byproduct of papa's yoyo

after......

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