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Gawks Poems - Poems about Gawks

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



Premium MemberThirty 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

Premium Membernomenclatures

...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

Premium MemberLet'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

Premium MemberCliff

...*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

Premium MemberIn 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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