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I Am Not a Pill Pusher

...here you go.
Have a sedative.
No wait! That’s mine!
It was given to me by a doctor fine.

Here’s a lithium.
That might calm you down a bit.
No wait. It has to be given to Uncle Chit.

Here’s...

Categories: cough drop, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Perfect Poem : Best Days of Your Life

...every tap and scratch of chalk upon the blackboard
every tick tock tick tock of the classroom clock
every bored yawn, restless fidget, impatient sigh

these were...

every reprimand for running...

Categories: cough drop, memory,
Form: Free verse

The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth

...The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lo...

Categories: cough drop, candy, love, metaphor, moon,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Twas the Night Before Christmas Stumbling Fallen Santa-

...Twas the night before Christmas;
As Mrs. Klaus was washing dinner dishes;
Santa is at the workshop;
He’s got a cold, sucking on cough-drop;

While walking through the snow;
Frozen his left foot...

Categories: cough drop, analogy, christmas, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

This For That

...
If you don’t speak pig Latin,
that’s all muddy okay
Ignorant bliss slop chatting,
this be the swine way

Quid pro quo
is a pig tell only 
when you Latin show 
need to know  know

T...

Categories: cough drop, fun, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Lozenge

...Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.

When I held...

Categories: cough drop, chocolate, kiss, love, romantic,
Form: Sonnet

Horehound Candy

...Seeing it on the country store shelf
reminds me of Dad.
"Horehound Candy," a name snickered
at when I got older,
a flavor not really to my liking, 
a root beer licorice cough drop taste,
but st...

Categories: cough drop, america, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Midnight Dream Train To Nowhere

...so beautiful is she when she smiles
so lovely is she even when she frowns
so far away is she and i can still feel her touch
so wishing she felt for me in the same way i feel for her

reality is ...

Categories: cough drop, imagination, longing,
Form: Free verse

We Dangle Sentences

...Whispers struggled out by the lisping of
                                          the hands are
not promises that shall be kept.

No breath exists upon your soul,
               it is vacant of...

Categories: cough drop, me, universe,
Form: I do not know?