Yellow Wood
...”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler...” — Robert Frost THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
YELLOW WOOD
there was the coworker’s han...
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Categories:
hangup, age, meaningful, time,
Form: Free verse
The Poet's Condition
...The Poet's Condition
by Michael R. Burch
(for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The poet's condition
(bother tradition)
is whining contrition.
Supposedly sage,
his editor knows
his brain'...
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Categories:
hangup, mother, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
Long Nights
...the bottle is empty
the bartender brings a next one
but it didn't last to long
another bottle is gone
i thought about marijuana
but i change my mind
its just this heartbreak
is being so unk...
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Categories:
hangup, life, loneliness, lonely, lost
Form: Light Verse
Butcher's Dream Necktie
...What is a necktie dangling for?
too stiff, too thin to be a scarf,
a bibi or apron;
too smooth to be a good hankie,
too short to be a suicide noose
to contemplate on.
Psycho...
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Categories:
hangup, parody
Form: Tail-rhyme