If God Was Human, Would He Murder, Steal
...If God was human, would He murder, steal
like us? Or would He lie, harm, and deprave,
drug-dealing deadly, fentanyl pain pills
for middle-class America's drug rave?
Do nations like o...
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Categories:
ganders, america, drug, god, islamic,
Form: Sonnet
TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN
...TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW
IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN
A cow looks at the full moon standing on a sloping hillside
it looks straight at the moon as if it were waiting for an answer
the beas...
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Categories:
ganders, courage, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Viii
...Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch
History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.
The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. B...
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Categories:
ganders, fun, funny, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
The Monarch's Way
...She lands on two hands with childlike innocence
a sign of the world's forward reacceptance
Spreading her wings she brings us new hope
Soon the flowers of spring will be able to cope
She's a...
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Categories:
ganders, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Glaciers' Grandeur Amidst the Poetry Business
...My poem was about innocent hearts
not purloined, perfumed farts
'Twas about forever lingering kisses
not everlasting, beer-induced pisses
Verses extoling glaciers' sheer grandeur
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Categories:
ganders, beauty, business, poems, satire,
Form: Couplet
For Autumn I Fall
...I rose for the summer, but for autumn I fall
Head first into oranges, reds, and yellows
Warm days and cool nights brace for winters call
A season of strange hot and cold bedfellows
Head first ...
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Categories:
ganders, seasons,
Form: Pantoum
Reflection of a Knife
...my eyeball knocks like a pendulum
against the keyhole socket
too close
too personal
the beating of my breath
against the wooden door
sweat seeps into its pores
as a lovely form in negligee
dr...
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Categories:
ganders, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Wild Goose Chase
...I accidentally let one loose
A ripe for roasting, fattened goose!
The ganders in Orwellian mode
Honked out the news in gaggled code.
Rash Farmer Giles, blood red with rage
Would not be easy to...
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Categories:
ganders, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
...Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Her mind performs tasks that are menial;
We never considered ever being congenial;
She slanders
Then ganders;
**** star belonging in colony that is penal.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
ganders, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Goose Eggs
...Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. Now, however, he...
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Categories:
ganders, abortion,
Form: Prose
Forever
...Poet - ANJALI DENANDI ,MOM
“ FOREVER “
………………………………………………………
THE SUN GIFTS RAYS……………
THE LOTUS SEES AND SEES THE SUN………….
DAYS AFTER DAYS…………….
THE RAINDROPS DANCE ON IT ,
I...
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Categories:
ganders, devotion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Allegiance of Mini-Kingdoms
...Let me begin by declaring
a well known cliche:
our skin does not define us,
nor does our place of birth
define our worth.
And yet we are scattered
across the globe,
sometimes whole oceans,
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Categories:
ganders, america, philosophy, political, spiritual,
Form: Prose
A Rhyme Crime
...A musing Mary, quite stationary
sitting with her laptop so still
thinks of limo cars, Broadway stars
and her dream house on the hill
Jill and Jack laid in their sack
wondering about Mary on their hi...
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Categories:
ganders, funny, parody,
Form: Couplet
On Liquid Plains
...Upon the waters waiting still,, a scudding duck decends.!
Dragonflies hover over blossoms and leeches deep,
Geese shake their heads, as they are passing the fronded willows, in verdant pleats
Hissy ...
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Categories:
ganders, animals
Form: Free verse
Silly Goose
...A novice goose farmer named Sanders,
Once wrote for advice from Ann Landers.
He'd encountered a block
To increasing his flock:
He didn't know gooses from ganders....
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Categories:
ganders, animals, funny, on work
Form: Limerick
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