Snippets of Spring vol 2
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Lyricism of wisteria ruses…peacocking muses gushing tomes
Classicism flocking..roams & woos homes not garden gnomes
Colourful creepers cruising..schmoozing with boisterously blushing bricks
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Categories:
drily, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
...Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hus...
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Categories:
drily, nature, spring,
Form: Rhyme
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS
Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo'
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
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I hate. I love.
You ask, 'Why not refrain?'
I wish I could explain.
I can't, ...
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Categories:
drily, books, boy, god, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Grab Bag Poems
...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams
POEMS
Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch
Every corona has a silver lining:
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Categories:
drily, allegory, america, analogy, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Nature's Moodswings
...Nature smiles in Spring
Pulls at our heart string
as greenery's hued in greener tinge
Having had an everlasting effect
on those evergreen trees.
Nature frowns in Autumn
gets all bored, pale ...
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Categories:
drily, muse, nature, seasons,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Bury a Genius In the Sky
...Can’t we bury in The Sky
One who is A Genius
And simply cry
For The With-Ideas Ruinous?
Bury in The Angel’s Sky
Minds brightly lit
But cheaply cry
For ones like dark pit?
Inter in The Azu...
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Categories:
drily, appreciation, death, education, image,
Form: Rhyme
Peter Pan
...A crisp, cold morning in Hyde Park,
and he is waiting for his date.
As joggers jog and poodles bark,
the girl's unconscionably late.
He paces London's crocused heart,
as traffic booms in ...
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Categories:
drily, romantic,
Form: Quatrain
Me and the Zimmer Man - Continuing On
...Things were not advancing much
though we hurtled across the tar;
conversation was grinding to a halt
& that was something
I needed desperately to avert.
“Ah! Yes,” he interposed qu...
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Categories:
drily, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry