Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Fair Game
by Michael R. Burch
At the Tennessee State Fair,
the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables
with mocking button eyes,
knowing the p...
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Categories:
eliding, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Pool Sharks
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and...
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Categories:
eliding, games, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
You Shall Not Return
...(Answer to Claude McKay I shall return)
YOU shall not come again
You won’t come back
You shall not turn up, you shan’t
To chuckle and care for the ones you want to see
To wristwatch with wonder ...
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Categories:
eliding, losslife,
Form: Free verse
Her Jodhpur Oneirisms (Jodhpur Is a City of Rajasthan, India)
...(Jodhpur is a beautiful, cultural, historical city in Rajasthan, India. This poem is all
about Jodhpur from her mouth as she told).
Left behind her beamish days of time of life, her days of gir...
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Categories:
eliding, art, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Classicism