Goopy Poems - Poems about Goopy

...There was a man I once knew. His name was Norman. You know how there’s a first for everything? Well, he was my first. Despite my visits to the nursing homes with my grandma, I really didn’t kn......

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...There was a day in the land of the Scandinavian county of Id That snow came down all goopy and grainy, and slid The weirdest part was that it fell not white, but pink. I remember that day added my......

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...glib glassy green-eyed gruesome ghoulish goblins grabbing gloriously glitzy glimmers of gourmet garnish. Giants give garbled ghosts gruff growls. Gargantuous groups of glamorous gargoyles give gr......

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...State of the Art (II) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~......

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...Poems about Poems (II) Kin by Michael R. Burch for Richard Moore 1. Shrill gulls, how like my thoughts you, struggling, rise to distant bliss? the weightless blue of skies that are no......

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...Sonnets XXXIII-XLI The Folly of Wisdom by Michael R. Burch She is wise in the way that children are wise, looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes I must bend down to her to understand. ......

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...Progress by Michael R. Burch There is no sense of urgency at the local Burger King. Birds and squirrels squabble outside for the last scraps of autumn: remnants of buns, goopy pulps of dil......

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...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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...Abide by Michael R. Burch after Philip Larkin's "Aubade" It is hard to understand or accept mortality— such an alien concept: not to be. Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion, or to s......

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...THE BUTCHER SENT THE PORK. SHE TOLD THEM, I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT DAMN FOOL, ORDERED THOSE PIGFACES. 12 PIGFACES, THAT'S ENOUGH FOR A PARTY. IF HE THINK'S I'M GONNA COOK THEM, HE GOT ANOTH......

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...A farmer's son was once tending to his mother's hens, Collecting their eggs to sell, At his family's road-side market stand when, He found a purple egg with a rotten smell. The boy looked arou......

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...I’m happy as a pig in poop cavorting through the soup this lovely day some internet play I’ve been lacking due to goop *it’s been rumored the recent poor internet service was caused by moistur......

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...The bread and butterflies wake to taste your morning dew, though innocent they seem their intentions will not do, each grabs a curly lock and pulls you to their side, laughs so small only fl......

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