Best Sweeney Poems

the barber’s fall,
a curtain call,
he snips and twirls
creating curls;
that close shave,
may be grave....

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A barber called Sweeney and Mrs Lovett
Both catch human heads inside her bucket
Cooking human head pies 
With blood and eyeball fries
Each bite so tough that...

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Sing a song a sixpence,a pocket full of rhy,4 and 20 victims,made into a pie,when the pie was opened the guts began to spill,wasn’t that...

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"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...

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A Good Mystery


I love a good mystery
A real whodunit,
I love the Hallmark Mystery and Movie Channel,
Nothing like watching Andy Griffith play the part of “Matlock”
He...

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These words describe, my love for you 
Our hearts only know that it’s true
I just wrote a few romantic lines and a couple rhymes
Describing to...

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i cant believe it!
i have come to life!
inspired once again i relive a past most splendid
taking back my pride i pick up my quill once...

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A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on...

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POEMS FOR POETS X

US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch

“Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”

Verse has small value in our...

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Hans Gruber to Severus Snape
Add Galaxy Quest as a jape
With Love Actually
And a Todd named Sweeney
Alan Rickman's my favorite escape


For Celebrity Limerick Poetry Contest
8/21/18...

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Poems for Poets VII



Sweenies (or Swine-ies) Among the Nightingales
by Michael R. Burch

(for the Corseted Ones and the Erratics)

Open yourself to words, and if they come,
be...

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P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 13

 Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your...

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
      a lyricist of my time
Gypsy, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods…
   He was...

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We had;
Interlude and
of Mice and men.
   A star is born and
Gone with the wind.

   A child bride and
The Wizard of Oz.
...

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