Erstwhile Poems - Poems about Erstwhile

...In case you don’t remember them they came from outer space They were to be the first beginnings of the human race But when they crashed they came down in a stark and frigid place Antarctic ice int......Read the rest...

...Limericks IX Scratch-n-Sniff by Michael R. Burch The world’s first antinatalist limerick? Life comes with a terrible catch: It’s like starting a fire with a match. Though the flames m......Read the rest...

...I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos shou......Read the rest...

...In a Stolen Moment by Michael R. Burch In a stolen moment, when the clock’s hands complete their inevitable course and sleep is the night’s dark spell, I call it a curse, seeking the force,......Read the rest...

...Written: October 02, 2023 For Robert James Liguori Contest _______________________________________ Fervent mishaps start life's biggest wins. The first crocus shrieks ......Read the rest...

...A yummy mother with pram is walking to west Dulwich from West Norwood The blind lady walks under scaffold the gyrating lumps of bolts gerates her white stick and your plimsole beggar man asks fo......Read the rest...

...Trump poems and epigrams V The prez should be above the law, he sez, even though he’s no longer prez. —Michael R. Burch Mercedes Benz by Michael R. Burch I'd like to do a song of grea......Read the rest...

...I haven't any motives to bind me I'm on a greasy pole unable to encounter the top Conscience is for somber occasions A dream is a foolscap Yesterday was a brown envelope day Waiting for Mr Go......Read the rest...

...Written: September 08, 2023 Sunsets Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Natasha L Scragg _____________________________________________________________ In September golden ......Read the rest...

...If all the tears that ever fell from lovers' hearts broken were to flood the conscience of this erstwhile cruel world Why, then, things wouldn't change one iota would t......Read the rest...

...rogue nation modern slavery vicious circle coldwar caste divisions up in arm,occupy regime is it religious sects regaining regime? is it erstwhile princely estate regaining regime? is it forei......Read the rest...

...Ballads and candles of lyrical light in stemmed yearning breezes of ethereal pearl shimmering translucence in a velvety damask A celestial serenade ~ glittering gold, a halo ......Read the rest...

...Kindred spirits, instantaneously. It was unbidden love written in the Stars for the erstwhile strangers. Magical was their connection......Read the rest...

...Staring into a sky so perfect blue The wispy white clouds highlighted now stand further out And I am suddenly stood transfixed And I can feel the sun warming comfortably at my back As......Read the rest...

...I hear that after she broke up with me she herself broke down. They say her main-spring unwound there in the London underground while waiting for the West Ham tube. Her knees ground to a hal......Read the rest...