Pets Couplet Poems

Kids believe in the Tooth Fairy
     then 'graduate' to the 'Money Tree'
  that grows deep roots in your back yard

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Friends come; friends go
    Family lies low

  Work's a revolving door
    Family's hard core

  Neighbors move in...

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I had named my verbose parrot Sunny, as he filled my world with sunshine;
For when someone truly touches the heart, you often must give some...

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Hi, would you like to meet my little pet
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When I'd give an arm and a leg! --
What's more, every Christmas I beg:

I want a dog! Please please pleeeaase!
But mom complains of poop and...

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I had always loved being near deep-sea water, and I was never too far away,
As the beauty of fresher tomorrow, is but mystic hours from...

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Merlin, the magic cat, was treading lightly
For some of his pranks had turned out unsightly
Like taking the scissors to our dog’s fluffy tail,
After knocking over...

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My two pet rats so cheeky and bright,
  one brown and one black and white,
who live only a short age
  rattlin’ around in...

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5 in the morn, it is getting light
Winter's ending it's long respite

Spring is upon us, daff's delight
Gone are the days we so dislike

Even folk's as...

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THANK HEAVEN'S IT'S SUNDAY

Thank Heaven's It's Sunday; if not the Lord's day of rest, it is mine
Get up as I please, leave the dishes in...

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It fell from the masters table.
Pets would snaffle it if able.
"Why!,' yelled the master,  'are you dumb?
You grapple over one mere crumb!
You both have...

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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...

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What has happened to us all, mankind and here in the US
Where it seems that life is all about money, millionaires and billionaires
Multi billionaires? who...

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Nuclear missiles
  as outdated as whistles

Hypersonic jets
  don't scare my pets

Multiple warheads
  won't knock you dead

The winner of my weaponry race
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My cat drank my glass of wine,                                    ...

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