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Drainpipe Poems - Poems about Drainpipe

A Change of Pace
...He staggers, where once he counted steps he now counts unsteady footfalls. Life has become a minor earthquake an aftershock still trembling at the core of a wincing mind. Many years ago, aunt......

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Categories: drainpipe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Only One of Me
...fragments of memory cling to my skin like wet cigarette smoke - rumors of midnight rainstorms in the flashes of a gaudy neon sign. mangled wing unfurls like a twisted umbrella on a desolate hi......

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Categories: drainpipe, dark, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 8:37 AM Monday
...A bunny feasts on a clover patch The Keurig moans Almost as badly as me Breakfast Been eatin’ the same cereal Since 1952 (slow eater) The debate rages Should I put on pants Watch the news Le......

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Categories: drainpipe, age, life, motivation,
Form: Free verse
The Drainpipe
...The year is like a drainpipe Gently sloping as we go From new year resolutions T’ward the winter’s dark and snow We begin with such potential Energy to fill our hearts, Yet as we journey thr......

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Categories: drainpipe, december,
Form: Rhyme
Leggy Winds Disrupt Weather Girls
...Longshanks drainpipe and whistle through the day. pterodactyls got it easy in this wide-open sky, they glide too far up to be real anymore. The beady-eyed slinkers that wriggle under our ploddin......

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Categories: drainpipe, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Taquilla Sundown
...A Taquilla worm, revives taste buds it never had. Close your eyes, grip the edge of the bar, think no harm, slug it all down, smile with your bottom lip. Outside the evening is crawling alo......

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Categories: drainpipe, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spiders - If You Could Do Anything Would You Still Live In a Peg
...Right this minute I'm looking at some fabulousness in relation to spiders webs It's taken over the entirety of a hanging basket I'm not saying I'm judgey but there's a spider who builds it's web......

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Categories: drainpipe, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Joy of Watching Animals
...Every morning and evening, I happen to watch parrots, A pandemonium always adorns my guava tree; Each parrot seems unique, having its very quaint merits, Like angelic souls, they seem in physique......

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Categories: drainpipe, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Talking Sex Blues Or How We Grew Up
...Do you remember the time when just a flickof skirt Would cause such a reaction that it very nearly hurt But a carefully folded overcoat avoided any fuss As you walked down stairs from the old scho......

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Categories: drainpipe, first love, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets Iii
...Poems about Poets Long Division by Michael R. Burch for Laura Riding Jackson All things become one Through death’s long division And perfect precision. Nod to the Master by Mi......

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Categories: drainpipe, earth, inspiration, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Prose Poems Ii
...Prose Poems II by Michael R. Burch These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems... briefling by Michael R. Burch manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (q......

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Categories: drainpipe, poems, poetry, rose, roses
Form: Prose
Asylum Blowup
...AsylumBlowup Deep purple and pink Floyd you have colour in your valium _yellow like sunlight inside this hole place of evil minds come to bare_a-trolley a-cometh to your table lots of goodies and yo......

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Categories: drainpipe, adventure, allegory, analogy, angel,
Form: Acrostic
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Iii
...My most popular poems on the Internet (III) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a ......

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Categories: drainpipe, holocaust, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poems I
...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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Categories: drainpipe, creation, god, muse, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Back In Our Day
...With this virus locking us all in Kids all at home making a din. Like headless chickens in a stew, No one knows just what to do. The old ones should take care,they say, They can't look after t......

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Categories: drainpipe, encouraging, environment, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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