Knowledge's Burdens
...Knowledge is to hold burdens -
messages no medicine can cure.
Pains no pills can palliate.
Fears no fumes could fumigate.
It's no wonder the older I grow, the more I know,
the harder i...
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Categories:
fumigate, growing up, how i
Form: Free verse
The Power To Name
...The power to name is a trait of God.
After making man, He named him Adam.
The power to name, God shared it with man.
God made the woman; Adam named her Eve.
God made the creatures; Adam gave th...
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Categories:
fumigate, cheer up, christian, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Answer
...Something went wrong,
the world turned against us.
Some said it was we that did it,
some thought it was God
or a Global entropy,
however it was all theory.
People died or went quietly mad
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Categories:
fumigate, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spider the Civil Engineer
...Fumigate the neglected rooms of Caleb,
Backing this up with prayers at Mount Horeb
And tomorrow, another ever wavy web
From an irksome zeal that wouldn’t ebb!
Guess: from the Eight – Legged Catc...
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Categories:
fumigate, animal, appreciation, creation, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Donald Trump: the Clorox Couplets
...Not-So-Heroic Couplets
by Donald Trump
care of Michael R. Burch
To outfox the pox:
kill yourself first, with Clorox!
And since death is the goal,
mainline Lysol!
No vaccine?
Just ch...
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Categories:
fumigate, america, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Kill the Seed of Evil
...Evil is a stubborn weed
People always plant its seed
Viscous are its deeds
On the innocent it feeds
A harmless germ in our mind
A thoughtless thought we can unwind
It can be a temptation to f...
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Categories:
fumigate, care, dark, evil, religion,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle With My Unwilling-Self
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Over here in an Emotional plebiscite;
Knowing it's do or die
Sparked by emotional suicide
These feelings linger like a pesticide,
While I'm trying to go overdrive.
Finally asking mys...
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Categories:
fumigate, confidence, conflict, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Silly Mug, the Red Polka-Dotted Pug -Wiz
...Oh, I’m nothing but a red polka-dotted pug.
I’m silly and smug and my name is Mug.
I need to see the Wiz to remove these dots,
I don’t care of he has to peel, pull and tug,
I’m just...
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Categories:
fumigate, dog, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Epitaph
...Please let my essence fumigate
And may my passion fascinate
Under this stone I liberate
Of hopes and dreams to integrate.
My song, my tears, they consecrate
A curse to all that denigrate
My o...
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Categories:
fumigate, appreciation, death, farewell, grave,
Form: Couplet
Daughters of the King
...DAUGHTERS OF THE KING
Hear Ye, Hear Ye,
Oh Daughters of the King.
From creation’s crown, to our glorious gown,
Let Heaven and nature sing!
Awake, Align, Acclimate,
Bring it on, Beautify.
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Categories:
fumigate, faith, father daughter, fun,
Form: Abecedarian
Drugs and Other Pests
...Out of their hotels like gypsies they roam,
so we fumigate our infested home.
Foglike drugs they inhale —
roach smoke under the veil.
Dear Mary Jane makes herself right at home.
2/20/2018...
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Categories:
fumigate, humor,
Form: Limerick
Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections - Part 1
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"Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections" - Part 1
Our Sacred Lady of the Divine Perfect Imperfections
is worthy of our fervent introspection
constantly, equatiously
for SH...
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Categories:
fumigate, abuse, child abuse, family,
Form: Free verse
What If Transparency
...What if Transparency
we make love we give love
yet sadness almost always fills our hearts
there is a great void that block that imagination
a peer of a sullen mast explosion
still we are...
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Categories:
fumigate, anxiety, art, beauty,
Form: Free verse
What If Transparency
...What if Transparency
we make love we give love
yet sadness almost always fills our hearts
there is a great void that block that imagination
a peer of a sullen mast explosion
still we are...
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Categories:
fumigate, art, autumn, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Toxic
...Your words like Poison
Toxic In the air
This wasn't for you
You spread like a virus
Funny how this year
I stopped being immune
It keeps growing
Faster than I can fumigate
You say you want...
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Categories:
fumigate, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
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