Sad Epigram Poems

anything goes
when
you're
going

no
where

no
w
h
e
r
e

(a?n?y?t?h?i?n?g?g?o?e?s?)
...

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fate
crushes us
like
fatuous bugs
in
fatal rugs
...

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EPIGRAMS IV

Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience.
—Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to...

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

August 6, 2019
Epigram
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If a man can't educate his child
He teaches the same to fight!
It may as well grow up to be wild
And things may still turn out...

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Volatile beauties,
     our fleeting lives...
     What absurd wonders,
     our joyful sad fates...
 ...

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Life is an incredible party
lives happily surrounded by flowers,
death is so priceless
even sad always brings
for ceremony, flower and power...

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Just smile when you are sad, 
Take the good with the bad....

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When agony appears, 
Our sad eyes drop the tears....

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For those who live sadly,
               the rain doesn’t rain,
  ...

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" Imbecile is the one who doesn't ponder
            same as mine ... "so said
...

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Megan Markle's lost her sparkle
  Prince Harry's nothing if not wary

Oprah preys on their vulnerabilities
  Eggs on their petty antipathies...

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Bodies at the morgue
seem to be waiting
for partners …

Waiting, waiting still
like nothing.

Bodies at the morgue
seem to be so
for good …

So poor and dull and so
low.

Bodies...

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yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang...

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Our English Rose
by Michael R. Burch

for Christine Ena Burch

The rose is—
the ornament of the earth,
the glory of nature,
the archetype of the flowers,
the blush of the...

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