Dupes Poems - Poems about Dupes

... A promise born, a life designed, To emancipate, to break the bind. But fate dealt blows, parents passed away, Leaving her to shadows, in a world astray. She sells her body, a living corpse, ......

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...These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems... Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and ......

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...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: I......

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...Witches pitched against witches… Itch of teacher to tell them the truth. There are no brooms in the closet, only dupes and solid students, with their thoughts flying opening their eyes for th......

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...Get out your sponges, stippling brushes and pens, It’s time for makeover-Monday-night to begin. Think Winky Lux, L’Oréal, Urban Decay, Maybelline, Armani and Fabergé It’s a black magic realm wh......

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...*Image of Daniel in the Lion's Den by Peter Paul Reubens. The Sixth of Daniel Walketh I, thy path of righteousness, beheld His glory, Lifted me upon thy pedestal, godsends didst ov......

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...The takers never live They have no idea The only way to truly experience joyful life is to give The givers show them But the takers think they are suckers Laughing at them behind their backs ......

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...Come, consider his story, People not used to fear. He tells a tale And we entrust him, But he and his kind, We simply disgust them. Prosaic dupes, (We’re quite the fools) Praise God as he goe......

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...For 24 minutes he spoke to his country on the anniversary of the CDC declaring the pandemic. Not one lie did he tell as President Biden announced that finally Americans would receive financial help t......

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... A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! ! Once a beacon of democracy A shining light on the hill The ‘American Dream’ Anyone can ‘make it’ Never more than aspirational Structu......

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...Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity The Cosmological Constant by Michael R. Burch Einstein, the frizzy-haired, said E equals MC squared. Thus all mass decreases as activity ceases? Not ......

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...fools the tools of the transient tarts with open hearts dupes seldom depart the joker is wild with the mind of a child mild, beguiled with an accomplished smile knowing the difference ’twe......

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...She snores under Night's somnolent veil, Far from quiet throes of his teetering sail; Her pulses come and go in silent throbs, Attuned to trigger no lover’s salted sobs. Her breath kicks in an......

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...I see so many wrapped up in rage, it consumes them all despite their age, anger not caused by crimes they’ve suffered, but by ideas that some have proffered, brought about by those malicious lies......

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...[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss. With trenchant wit he reaps the dross when seeking sense in applesauce. But to his aid flies FactoidMan who always ......

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