Best Publisher Poems

I would like to share my thoughts
I got a gift
I realise, I love to write
You can say, its like an itch
One day I hope
It will make me extremely rich
I enjoy words
I write about everything 
It doesn't say, that I am right
I just like to make...

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A Publisher and A Writer walk Into a bar…
They Both say “Ouch!”


Please My Omnipotent Publisher;
Please give me a break.
Give my poetry a chance to show, 
I'm not second rate.
This book will sell and my words will be heard
And your company and I, will reap the...

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TO THE PUBLISHER
> 
> I read and find your request intriguing
> you ask for bizarre tales for your book
> and I’m cheerfully ecstatic and disposed 
> to send you a particularly special poem 
> in which you will find yourself taking center stage. 
> 
>...

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Donald impersonating
a nice guy publisher right 
after my accident traumatic 
brain injury car bomb attack 
he followed me to book stores 
ice cream shops art museum 
obsessed with my poetry my 
manuscript i was writing about 
my uncle bob satterfield the 
boxer he was so...

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This poem is very long overdue 
The words or things to say I just never knew
You had so much faith in me when I had none
Just a student waiting for the school year to be done
But because of you I am who I am today
A...

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The Poet's Condition
by Michael R. Burch

(for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)

The poet's condition
(bother tradition)
is whining contrition.
Supposedly sage,

his editor knows
his brain's in his toes
though he would suppose
to soon be the rage.

His readers are sure
his work's premature
or merely manure,
insipidly trite.

His mother alone
will answer the phone
(perhaps with a...

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The Better Man
by Michael R. Burch 
  
Dear Ed: I don’t understand why
you will publish this other guy—
when I’m brilliant, devoted,
one hell of a poet!
Yet you publish Anonymous. Fie!
 
Fie! A pox on your head if you favor
this poet who’s dubious, unsavor
y, inconsistent in...

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