Goopy Poems - Poems about Goopy

Norman

...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...

Categories: goopy, art, faith, life,
Form: Free verse

remember the day it snowed pink

...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...

Categories: goopy, snow,
Form: Rhyme

The Gs Have It

...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...

Categories: goopy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

State of the Art Ii

...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 
~~~...

Categories: goopy, muse, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Poems Ii

...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...

Categories: goopy, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli

...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.
...

Categories: goopy, child, childhood, children, death,
Form: Sonnet

Progress

...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...

Categories: goopy, america, culture, fashion, food,
Form: Free verse

Poems About Poets I

...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...

Categories: goopy, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse

Abide: After Aubade By Philip Larkin

...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...

Categories: goopy, addiction, death, depression, drink,
Form: Sonnet

The Food For the Party

...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...

Categories: goopy, art, evil, food,
Form: Classicism

The Farmer's Boy and the Purple Egg

...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...

Categories: goopy, appreciation, farm, life,
Form: Rhyme

Cavorting Through the Soup

...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...

Categories: goopy, silly,
Form: Limerick

Joolie

...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...

Categories: goopy, imagination, on writing and
Form: Rhyme