blustered birds
...I worry about birds
battered frazzle by winds.
But, with feather fluster
hustles, they withstand, affirm....
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Categories:
frazzle, bird, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Queen Of Sinkholes
...Frazzle dazzled Summer escapades,
a wave of madness hoists a red flag;
Fuchsia allows my brain to defrag,
sunsets melt hues into softer shades;
I can now turn down those hot coals
that my emot...
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Categories:
frazzle, emotions, feelings, inspirational, summer,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
What The Roses Don't Say
...What The Roses Don’t Say
by Michael R. Burch
Oblivious to love, the roses bloom
and never touch ... They gather calm and still
to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ...
They sway, bem...
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Categories:
frazzle, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
A tribute PROSE in RIME
...A cool Autumn morning we caught the bus,off at eleven without much fuss.One
and half return from Croft to Leigh a birthday treat from Dad to me.Hopped on a tram to Burden park to see Stan Mathews ...
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Categories:
frazzle, soccer, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry In Motion Contest Football
...Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkling skills,
A pr...
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Categories:
frazzle, childhood, nostalgia, soccer,
Form: Rhyme
Another Childhood Memory
...A cool Autumn morning
we caught the bus
off at eleven
.without much fuss.
One & half return
our village Croft to Leigh
a birthday treat
from Dad to me.
Hopped on a
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Categories:
frazzle, soccer, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Tribute To Stan
...THE GREATEST
Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkli...
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Categories:
frazzle, soccer, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Nonsense Poem
...petals and petticoats
mimes and marigots
blossoms and bubble boats
coal buckets and car coats
frazzle fritzes and fuzzy floats
germinating grouchy goats
muzzle loading mischief moats
ostracize...
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Categories:
frazzle, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Could Write About the Smile Shared With Dog
...Know that this purr-ing cat
will probably eat my face
how many wings are stored
how many insect spindles
how many bugged ladies
too little buttered flies
not a bad word for the cloud
drizzle d...
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Categories:
frazzle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tongue Tanglers
...To write a tongue twister is not funny mister
I just don’t know where to begin
There’s one that I’ve written with which I’m quite smitten
But I’d had a very large gin...
Workers wrinkles wor...
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Categories:
frazzle, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Pot Holder
...I have held my last pot of hot soup
I've come to the end of my threads
Befraggled and muffed
Bedraggled and fruffed
A raddled cloth corpse that's dead
Frayed so soft and shabby
As the cotton b...
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Categories:
frazzle, change, dog, funny, humor,
Form: Personification
So Much Coming
...Down the pike, seasonal traps,
and festive lures trundle in,
weave ways through orange barrels,
past Red Lobster’s neon’s
a surf and turf backwash of traffic.
Pumpkins drop dead gradually.
Be...
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Categories:
frazzle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pure Fantasy
...Episode 1
Enter Fire Ball
Can I help being curvaceous and bold,
Or so I’ve been told,
Can I help it, if I get a visual massage,
Daily compliments, in fact a barrage!
I was born a beauty, a...
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Categories:
frazzle, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Flashback
...Beyond an overcast lazuline sky
a night of waning moon sets ember dark.
As a silent candle of molten hope burns
an ashen landscape in sudden flares up
plummeting a trail from heaven to earth.
St...
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Categories:
frazzle, stars,
Form: Free verse
Very Near, Yet So Far
...Amid the mighty waves of peculiar sea
I stood still waiting for you to see me
You took hold of the little girl's shivering hand
And made her dance among the waves away from the shore sand
I r...
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Categories:
frazzle, first love,
Form: Rhyme
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