Small Towns Between
...The town fathers
are long neglected by scavenging vultures,
locked up as they are,
in the wood cabin, we call the town museum.
Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia
photographs and t...
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Categories:
hazmat, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
...I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it fail...
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Categories:
hazmat, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku
by Michael R. Burch
late November:
climate skeptics scoff
but the geese no longer migrate.
The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct
by Michael R. Burch
Th...
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Categories:
hazmat, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
No One Tells Me What I Have
...they suit up in hazmat suits
the door bursts open.
They pop me into a bubble and
whisk me to the sixteenth floor
I did not know this hospital had a sixteenth floor, I say
For three days people...
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Categories:
hazmat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hazmat
...Unbeknownst to them I am their wild child,
what a precious smile she’s a pussycat;
Lecherous phrases on iron they were filed,
unbeknownst to them I am their wild child;
Calculated and curt is how...
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Categories:
hazmat, cat, emotions, feelings,
Form: Triolet
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...
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Categories:
hazmat, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Frality Factor
...Time place
scope and space
recover planning with
hazmat desires
actions by dissent
proportions to unoutcomes
serial deliverance by
traveling non neural pathways
around psycho resilience via ...
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Categories:
hazmat, anxiety, forgiveness, happiness, identity,
Form: Free verse
Experimental Poem, Re-Opening Schools
...
Experimental Poem-On Schools Re-Opning
FORMAT.....JOSEPH'S STAR
School
Open, closed
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Categories:
hazmat, school,
Form: Free verse
Close Encounter
...
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and, in the sky, noticed a star
Could be a planet I thought, as I drove along the forest road
It seemed to ge...
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Categories:
hazmat, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Picnicking In Paris
...The men are handsome in their suits and ties
The women casually nude
picnicking in Paris in the 1860's.
This must be the new way
Parisians are cultured
Perhaps this is what we should all be do...
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Categories:
hazmat, art, women,
Form: Light Verse
Its Covid Proof
...Although Covid put the pole on lockdown
Santa thought of plan, with no one around
He’d wear a hazmat suit
The crew did not dispute
Mrs. Claus looked...
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Categories:
hazmat, christmas, humor,
Form: Limerick
Covid-19 Haunting Fear
...Silence is deafening
Like a dungeon dark hallway.
Door after close door of bounding
Moans and groans, and painful
Yelling gasping for air.
I sit in this cold
Dark cell shivering wit...
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Categories:
hazmat, emotions, heartbreak, sick,
Form: Free verse
Old Fashioned Christmas
...It’ll be an old fashioned Christmas,
with Santa due down the chute.
I bet he Purells his reindeer,
and Lysols his hazmat suit.
It’s an old fashioned Christmas.
We’ll all have on our masks,
a...
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Categories:
hazmat, 11th grade, care, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas 2020
...the elves built a new workshop and yes there’s a but
they didn’t use one-call and their phone lines got cut
isolated up north poor Santa missed some calls
he lost the warranty on his sleigh and an...
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Categories:
hazmat, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Is That Mask Your Wearing Harming You
...My friends, an article has been published by a gentleman by the name of Guy Crittenden titled "That mask is giving you lung cancer" Please google and read the article. Why is this important? Well b...
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Categories:
hazmat, truth,
Form: Narrative
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