Doltish Poems - Poems about Doltish

buffoon

...
laugh …

please feel free
the fat old man is here for
your entertainment
‘there must be a purpose that we strung
the aged fool along for’ …
right??
it’s not that I feel like an impish idiot...

Benthic

...in the twilight zones
of the ocean
you will find me
dimly lit from within
for camouflage, for
spotting those I fear
would steal my hazy glow

I am surrounded by
others who linger here,
half...

Choose Your Mob

...We need to organize, demand the right to be mindless.
Deserve we compensations,
        restorations for the witless who riot.
Compassion and pardon for all moronic mobs.

The right to choose de...

Imagine Life Without Coffee

...Imagine that coffee is your soul
Dark and too bitter like the starless sky
As black as hell, as awful. 

Imagine a life without coffee
Pointless, tasteless, doltish, 
Tell me, how bad a day wou...

Doltish

...His thoughts a noose round the neck
That betrays progress into better ray,
Prisoner self-chained to surreal wreck
Of diamond burdens beyond their say.  

His pulses another swift drift away 
Fr...

Doggerel Ii

...Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms wher...

Poems About Dogs

...Poems about Dogs

This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently ca...

Dog Daze I: Poems About Dogs

...Dog Daze
by Michael R. Burch

Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler;
he really is one of the best.
Sometimes in bed
he snuggles my head,
though he mostly just plops on my chest.

I think Oz was mad...

Marked Wrists

...Behind those hidden marked wrists
Are lies, skepticism and fears
Behind those calloused, clenched fists
Is a cauldron of uncontrollable tears.

Behind those evident scars
Is a constant cycle of...

Age Disparaged

..."The body, like the oak, is bent and gnarled,
The shallow-rooted mind is overthrown,
When we are near the evening of the world."
---From, 'Runes for an Old Believer", by Rolfe Humphries

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Delicate Dimensions

...The Shepherd asked the poetess-
Who are you?
Twinkling her eyes, the poetess
said-who am I.

Am I a breath or a death;
breeze or a storm;
am I soothed or havocked?
I am blazed and ashed.

A...

The Secret's Confession

...There's Something I always Keep With Myself ,
Wrap It Up And Place Onto My Shelf ;
My Secret's Land In These Extravagant Books,
Each Connected To One Another Through Angelic Brooks .


I'm a ve...

Withered Leafless Trees

...Withered leafless trees
Clinging to old roots
Sway fearful of the wind,
Murmuring among themselves 
With dull nonsense
About the rains.

The doltish deceive themselves 
That winter is a prelu...

Tethered By Life

...Tethered by life's boundless gyre;
doltish in the headlong plunge.
Swirling in its turbid mire;
mock demur feigns to expunge.

Inchoate thoughts swell pathos' rosters;
errant guides whose hack ...

Everything Is Free

...
Everything is Free
and I Don’t Want it
6-4-2016

They’re targeted at any seeking cheap or free,
Offers come by email, phone, TV or printed.
Somehow all offers always seem to include m...

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