Life Duck Poems

For years I’ve seen a pair of ducks
In front of a fountain close by.
They swim or sit and those who notice
Likely wonder why.

The fount’s in...

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Linda never lived up to her husband’s fantasy
Sheba had porcelain skin of alabaster hues
Her ruby lips hid a brilliant mind
She passed at twenty-three
Leaving an open...

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The peacock and the duck are long-time friends.  The peacock stays inside a zoo while the duck stays very close to the zoo. ...

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longing for a different life
i restart my journey
the worlds that i see are ones my eyes do not expect
the final turn leads me right back...

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These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch

Double Limerick: The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch

The platypus, myopic,
is ungainly, not erotic.
His feet for bed
are over-webbed,
and what...

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IF ONLY I OWNED A DUCK

Xmas and New Year gone, you are now off the lash
Found you have chucked the cat out with the trash

You’re...

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IS A DUCK

You say you're a good Christian woman or man, 
But I see the issues on which you stand. 
Looks like a duck! 

You...

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I watched the worst movie ever made, it truly sucks.
The movie that I'm talking about is Howard the Duck.
It has scarred and cursed me for...

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There is a brighter Side To            NO MEANS NOTHING TO A DUCK

"Quack, quack, quack,...

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1. there's a time for bacon
    and a time for eggs
    I didn't know the Pope
   ...

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How can ducks look so serene,
gliding swiftly 'cross the pond?
While just below the water's surface,
frenzied churning's going on.

Webbed-feet are all in action,
like old piston-pumping wells,
Not...

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I was a good duck at one time


here i was 
at one time 
a duck in the wind
up in the open blue 
searching for blue
this...

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Nasty old man of privilege sneaks onto the morning meadow dawn
Accumulated wealth passed on from dad is immeasurable
And that which makes him too cheap to...

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Radioactive airwaves deduced from isotonic sceptres is a fine nine mile curve of a globe. Spasms are as such a vaulted jolt of a timed...

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Hiring the wolf 
to track you down 
A bounty is on your head, 
he will sniff out the culprit 
As for the pig, 
he plays...

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