A coin gawks at a grand big note - 2
...But tell my friend, you must have moved a lot.
Oh sure, I’ve been in a constant journey:
To a beggar for a few biscuits bought,
With a child thrilled as if with a trophy,
On pilgrimage, or in som...
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Categories:
gawks, journey, money,
Form: Sonnet
A coin gawks at a grand big note - 1
...Last night I dreamt I was one-rupee coin
Who met a two-thousand rupee crisp note
In a rich man’s pocket, looking so keen
At the exalted worthy of my vote.
The note asked: you find anything funny?...
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Categories:
gawks, journey, money,
Form: Sonnet
Thirty Knots an Hour
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His very bones smell of ocean
beard lashed with its salt
On land, rubber legs awkward
he gapes and he gawks
But rig him up a mast
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Categories:
gawks, boat, identity, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet 13 Ground Zero Thought
...The thought process of people starts at ground zero.
Being born to people the level of knowledge varies.
Is it possible for a person with so little ascribed status to achieve the status of a hero?
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Categories:
gawks, deep,
Form: Sonnet
nomenclatures
...amidst a jungle
sloths snuggle ten tree's apart
hung stared glance awry
scout darts afar off
an army of red herrings
plots a lure or lore
after a rainstorm
a hover of trouts stood still
g...
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Categories:
gawks, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Modern Days Psalm 23
...The Lord is my contractor
He supplies my tools
He let's me choose green pastures
He shows me great horizons
He renews my permits
He allows a floral archway entrance
To ascend joyous scent unt...
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Categories:
gawks, appreciation, bible,
Form: Free verse
Poems about Science 3: Evolution
...POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 3: EVOLUTION
Peers
by Michael R. Burch
These thoughts are alien, as through green slime
smeared on some lab tech’s brilliant slide, I grope,
positioning my bright osc...
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Categories:
gawks, bird, fish, fishing, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Soothing Stress
...With the chalk,
Teachers' hearts knock
Students flock;
Goats, we overstock
And sheep, we unlock!
With our talks,
Teachers' mouths stalk
Lazy students' works,
Discipline the ones that ba...
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Categories:
gawks, appreciation, art, care, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Go To the Beach
...With a suit made of paper and strings,
Try you might, you’re not hiding a thing.
Though you tug it around,
Still the gawks from that brute!
With your hand in pursuit.
Of the string of your suit....
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Categories:
gawks, beach, humorous, song,
Form: Lyric
Cliff
...*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed ...
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Categories:
gawks, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form: Couplet
Lost
...11/9/21
If I crossed the line
Then I apologize
Almost lost my mind
A lot of times
Mental and physical battles being fought
Still lost
Smoking pot
And drinking lots
Another day and nigh...
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Categories:
gawks, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Options Underwater
...Options Underwater: The Song of the First Amphibian
by Michael R. Burch
“Evolution’s a Fishy Business!”
1.
Breathing underwater through antiquated gills,
I’m running out of options. I need t...
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Categories:
gawks, animal, bird, environment, fish,
Form: Rhyme
In Fuzzy Socks and Crocs
...To town he goes in fuzzy socks and crocs.
Do watch him! See how proudly that he walks.
He likes the way that everybody gawks
as he strolls down the city’s many blocks.
He bets they’re thinking, “...
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Categories:
gawks, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Eb's Flo
...In a passion of fashion, at the height's
of female pulchritude; try as she might,
Wobbling to walk on five inch stilletos;
All she got were awkward gawks from the fellows.
So not a cat but boar...
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Categories:
gawks, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
The Platypus, a Double Limerick
...These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch
Double Limerick: The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus, myopic,
is ungainly, not erotic.
His feet for bed
are over-webbed,
and wha...
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Categories:
gawks, animal, desire, humor, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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