Rain Burlesque Poems

Quatrain 1
Sitting alone at nadir in serpentine sloth;
it is placed on the breeding typo.
A slight failure comes out of the emptiness and makes
successful that which...

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I advised Jenny Wren that I’d be there by ten.
She told me Amber Rose was in the loop.
So, I simply assumed and just entered her...

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If I were a comedian in this life,
Today would have been my worst nightmare,
With nothing funny happening on my way to writing this.

The pigeons left...

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Dancer
by Michael R. Burch

You will never change;
you range,
investing passion in the night,
waltzing through
a blinding blue,
immaculate and fabled light.

Do not despair
or wonder where
the others of your...

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I'm keeping track of
a big bug buzzing above my head, resembling
Public order. How did it get in, I wonder and
did it use hand-sanitizer before entering?
Silly...

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Listen to what the snake charmers say:
We be sulfuric scaly bellies,
flicking poisonous tongues on the telly
Idoly speak pure Orwellie — 
Down is up  ...

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Toes

Rain encourages one
To go barefoot or 
Perhaps slippers or
Fancy shoes.

But when you see
Toes exposed as they be
Twinkling trimmed and painted
With rainbow colors set free.

But wait,...

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I have never given myself 
So freely to anyone 
but to you, it came easily 
because I trusted you,
don't get me wrong
I ain't sprung? I...

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When there is sunshine on your shoulder, it is easy, oh so easy.
When spring is in the air and the lambs are out frolicking, it...

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My cuffs gather the dusk’s dirt,
I wait alongside Albert’s dog;
The sentry of the rain stares at me
Like I was a resident of the bog.

I have...

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Rain made no apologies to sun
as it satiated a whetted appetite,
opined it was the right of nature
unconditionally given dispensation
by Mother Earth's nurturing favor
of life-giving creative...

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It’s a pleasure to walk out on a Winter’s day,
When the cold air bites, and deep snow’s here to stay!
To hear the wind howling through...

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more stress, more pain
its hot sunny, it never rain
I have loss, hardly a gain
for sure i am soon running in sane...

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I DON'T KNOW HOW IT HAPPENED
A REVERBERATION MORE THAN A DREAM
SHE WAS NAUGHTY AND ALWAYS LIKED RAIN
I TOO MADE MY CHOICES COME CLOSE TO HER
SHE...

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October Heat

This October boil has turned into a shocking corps of a tramp left in 
the unholy heat for days. Last time someone a had...

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