Best Thwack Poems

Today, meandering through the clutter of the local antique store,
I almost tripped and fell over an object partially hidden on the floor!
My hands came to...

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She's thrice now had a scarlet groom
Adorned in silk this dusty room
	She sobbed away sorrows in black
	When she discovered the knapsack
	In gold and pearls, did...

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a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top...

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To tennis
What a cracking sport
To play, to lose all worldly cares.

Returning
To the tennis court –
That small rectangle, out of time;

Win or lose
It doesn’t matter,
I’ll keep...

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The archers’ line was straddled,
By many a shapely calf.
The Marshall called the nocking,
And winked at the pretty lass.

The Maiden drew the bowstring back,
To her ruddy...

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(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any...

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Wur in RE an the nuns are gien                 ...

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Inspired by and dedicated to 
Sara Kendrick and her poem "Chicken"


I once had a chicken
Came out of his egg kick-in'
He was the strangest thing ,...

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Gargle, glop, burble and glug, 
The sauce in the bottle was glued.
It oozed so slow, not wanting to leave,
To cover all of my food.

A thump...

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Hear O maiden, on whom desire springs forth
It brews mine soul, chiming taste after port
Have thou detour, pursuit never will cease
Inside dungeon, dwells memoirs begging...

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Family Poems

Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch

There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you...

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Sitting, watching my favorite fishing channel on TV,

Then I hear my wife screaming, calling out to me.

I run up the stairs, into the bathroom, a...

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In my attic I found a toy,
A toy I cherished as a boy.
Just a wooden, simple thing
A bat and ball and elastic string.

I remember giving...

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Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...?

Methinks perchance man
     kind always vain
n'er did appertain
moral hike polar opposite
     from...

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New horizon never done this before 
                  ...

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