Hallmark
Hallmark?
sappy stories of rich or
upper middle-class people
starting businesses or
trying to save existing ones
handsome men and
beautiful women
newly divorced
or never married
modern versions of
daytime soap operas
you may not watch for a month
and not miss anything
good thing my wife has
a television in the guest room
downstairs I can watch
ANCIENT ALIENS!!!!!
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Categories:
hallmark, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Not Made for Hallmark
We took a break,
fortunately, it was a time
when we could not stand each other.
Whirlwind romances
spun like dandelion puffs
in a thin, just barely breathable air.
I knew retrospectively
that she was three years younger than I
and I was five years younger
in puppy dog years.
When we met once more,
we argued over some bitter bones
we thought we had long buried.
After
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Categories:
hallmark, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hallmark Christmas 2024
A Hallmark Christmas and full moon beam
I could watch all year, would be my dream
The Love, the happiness & hot cocoa
the spirit of Christmas and soft white snow
the cookies and treats, decorations galore
the festivities and markets and so much more
Oh, how I love - good wishes coming true
I live through movies, that’s what I do.
For
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Categories:
hallmark, christmas, holiday, lonely, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Inflation Strikes Hallmark
Pennies, nickels and dimes
no longer take up our time
Even a quarter's value falls shorter
~ no longer buys cheap valentines
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Categories:
hallmark, money, time, valentines day,
Form: Rubai
Anatomy of a Hallmark
For those who love the Hallmark reels
with stories that give all the feels
You’ll notice that in every one
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Categories:
hallmark, beautiful, cute love, family,
Form: Rhyme
Mistletow
Mistletoe
Who’s she expecting ‘neath the mistletoe?
The guys here all are taken. She looks so forsaken
And she’s such a pretty gal.
Who’s she expecting ‘neath the mistletoe?
Seems the party’s running down, still no guy’s come around,
To steal kiss from a pretty gal.
She was my pal, so very nice.
I’ll admit I’ve kissed her twice or thrice,
But I
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Categories:
hallmark, christmas, kiss, love, romantic
Form: Lyric
We Live For Hallmark Moments
a.m. and p.m.
like clockwork we’re greeted, Chris.
he’s cuckoo for love
1/14/2020
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Categories:
hallmark, day, night,
Form: Senryu
An Obscenity Trial
An Obscenity Trial
by Michael R. Burch
The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints
against whom several critics cited numerous complaints.
They accused him of trying to reach the "common crowd,"
and they said his poems incited recitals far too loud.
The prosecutor alleged himself most stylish and best-dressed;
it seems he’d never lost a case, nor
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Categories:
hallmark, poems, poetry, poets, society,
Form: Verse
Hallmark Moments
cookie cutter movies,
parading through holiday,
with a ho ho ho
and mistletoe,
angelic beings appear
mysteriously, giggling.
there’s magic globes
of Winter cheer, shaking
up the villagers, ski-slope
cascades of brunette and blonde hair,
billowing. and handsome men
falling for each one. North Pole
decor to the extreme - where else
would most of us peruse this feast?
so we compare to our own existence,
hollowed out with
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Categories:
hallmark, christmas,
Form: Concrete
Hallmark Birthday Greeting Card
I hope you like this Birthday Card
It cost me almost £3.50
And took me over 10 minutes to pick
I didn't know whether to go with
the sentiment classy or funny
But then it eventually dawned on me
It doesn't matter which 1 i choose
Or the message i write inside
Because sadly you have heard
all my appologies and excuses
over a
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Categories:
hallmark, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Movies
I love to sit in comfort
At home watching TV
I watch my favorite movies
The one's that work for me
It's not a Christmas movie
Just because there's snow
That's something folks at Hallmark
Should be told, so someone knows
To me, A Christmas movie
Has Santa and a gift
It has a Christmas message
It gives people a lift
Getting lost in a big snowstorm
Finding
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Categories:
hallmark, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
When Love Breathes Us In
We've all seen those Hallmark stories
The ones too good to be true
Where there's a perfect love connection
That fate miraculously brings to you
So will tomorrow just be another day
Of distant dreams and fairy tales
What if...
Love breathes us in
Oh, everything changes
Cupid's dart...
Goes straight through the heart
All the loneliness ends
And a new life begins
When love breathes us in
What
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Categories:
hallmark, destiny, dream, fantasy, fate,
Form: Lyric
A Hallmark Moment
A hoarfrost weave of glistening alabaster crystals,
forms a brittle web of tenuous tentacles
that crept across the frozen ground
and up the trunks of the naked trees;
encapsulating barren branches in an icy sheath,
attesting to Nature's immutable beauty.
Dawn, pencils in light and shadow
creating a surreal sketch bereft of color;
awaiting Autumn's phantasmagorical brush.
In the interlude between Dawn and sunrise,
a
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Categories:
hallmark, autumn, beautiful, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Hallmark Moment
A Hallmark Moment
Bask in the field starring up at the sky
Out of sadness you get a glimpse of a passerby
Through shadows that close their weary ways
We lie helpless having one of those days
Inside we smile to help fight the pain
To treasure a red rose that was plucked a time before
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Categories:
hallmark, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Hallmark Breakup
I wrote you this card to break you the news
By the time your done reading, I'll have broken up with you
You lied and you cheated, you were dishonest
We had a great love, but you just went and tossed it
So while you were cheating, you didn't have a clue
I went and replaced you, I found someone
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Categories:
hallmark, break up, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
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