Bored Stiff Poems - Poems about Bored Stiff

...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......

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...Coal face disgrace Bad vibes from tribes Dark art at heart Big deal surreal Uptight yeah right Sky high my eye Who knew boohoo My god that’s odd not half a ......

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...Epigrams VI These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I......

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...Light verse and nonsense verse Mini-Ode to Stamina by Michael R. Burch When you’ve given so much that I can’t bear your touch, then from a safe distance let me admire your persistence. ......

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...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse A$$tronomical by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, proved E equals MC squared. Thus, all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not my mass, my a$$ dec......

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...Poems about Poems (I) What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless ......

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...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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...The State of the Art (I) by Michael R. Burch Has rhyme lost all its reason and rhythm, renascence? Are sonnets out of season and poems but poor pretense? Are poets lacking fire, their word......

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...The Making of a Poet by Michael R. Burch While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it my ars p......

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...Limericks VI - Religion Pell-Mell for Hell Mel by Michael R. Burch There once was a Baptist named Mel who condemned all non-Christians to hell. When he stood before God he felt like a clod ......

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...Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity The Cosmological Constant by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, said E equals MC squared. Thus all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not ......

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...Caveat by Michael R. Burch If only we were not so eloquent, we might sing, and only sing, not to impress, but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed. We might inundate the earth with thankfulness for......

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...No More Excitement Just think no more excitement; Excitement in my life is fast becoming extinct.. last boyfriend made me cry. He was about as exciting as watching "paint dry".. Next time ......

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...COPLA SESENTA Y CUATRO: This Bad Guy World No one denies Life’s stunning rich What we all have to put up with: Stark sacrifice Spite of beast in Man or the Witch Brains soar limitless height......

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...Its the simple things in life that turn my wheels a stroll over the moors, I don't need newsreels The beauty of the full moon to my heart appeals sounds of the night, I hear high pitched squeals No......

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