Name Epigram Poems

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Preposterous Eros
by Michael R. Burch

“Preposterous Eros” – Patricia Falanga

Preposterous Eros shot me in
the buttocks, with a Devilish grin,
spent all my money in a rush
then left...

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POEMS ABOUT SHAKESPEARE by Michael R. Burch

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
by Michael R. Burch

a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet!



Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies...

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He is the man of my life and l can bank on it,
A rock l can count on with forever being secure,
He is what God...

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I am owned that belongs to you
  others use it more often.
The meaner time looks upon you
  the more you radiate and soften.
I...

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He vowed to love her forevermore—
But already forgot her trivial name.

August 6, 2019
Epigram
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Epigrams VII

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: 
am I or are the others crazy?
—Albert Einstein, poetic interpretation by Michael R. Burch


The Whole of Wit
by...

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'Absence makes the heart grow fonder'
   once wrote an English poet

by name of Thomas Haynes Bayly
   who surely ought to know

For...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

That country wench bewitches your heart?
Hell, her most beguiling art’s
hiking her dress
to seduce you with her ankles' nakedness!
Sappho, fragment 57, loose...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams

Stranger, rest your weary legs beneath the elms;
hear how coolly the breeze murmurs through their branches;
then take a bracing draught from...

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Why did David Hasselhoff change his name to "Hoff? " 
It is truly less hassle by taking it off....

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ANACREONTIC (MY EPIGRAM TO FUNMI)

Ode to ¹"Oluwafunmilayo",
Gimme reckless & endless "²ayo",
More limitless & restless valor
bcos "³ní lé mi wà báyo",

Safe all the drama & "àló",
Let's...

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POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today...

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here is mine in this form

What tune does youth most play
when future's biding ?
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Jampa further  than Paris
        green enters the houses
        Otherwise Miami...

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