Milk
...cheesy grits no bread
glass jelly jars for milk cups
sausage choking child Heimlich...
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Categories:
heimlich, angst, child,
Form: Senryu
Local Business Man Saved By A Foreign Woman
...Bussing immigrants to high-end neighborhoods makes immigration status worse. After an Ecuadorian women gave Heimlich to a man choking on a Scampi, she was once again bussed elsewhere without a single...
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Categories:
heimlich, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Not So Much With the Merry
...Twas the night before Christmas, up in the North Pole
The pressure of the season was taking its toll
Deadlines and long hours were causing some stress
“Some” might be an understatement. They were ...
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Categories:
heimlich, christmas, funny,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Date
...'Twas the night before Christmas and I was waiting for a blind date
He never showed, I decided to leave as it was getting very late
I downed my wine and quickly ate the burger left cold on my plate...
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Categories:
heimlich, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Cherry Chokehold
...It was work week in boot camp. I had a bad cold.
I was working with two sailors, preparing desserts.
I ate a cherry off one dessert.
CHERRY CHOKEHOLD
the cherry chokehold
ac...
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Categories:
heimlich, food,
Form: Free verse
Hot Yoga Chick
...She’s a switchblade, blackjack,
Knuckle-duster dame.
Got the proper block and tackle,
Lash your rigging to the frame.
She put the drill press to your taproot
And the grindstone to your saber.
G...
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Categories:
heimlich, allegory, women,
Form: Lyric
Poems About Poets Iii
...Poems about Poets
Long Division
by Michael R. Burch
for Laura Riding Jackson
All things become one
Through death’s long division
And perfect precision.
Nod to the Master
by Mi...
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Categories:
heimlich, earth, inspiration, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Sage Fright
...
I’m a-starting to *pavo tremble
this time of year
From all of the oven symbols
rack-et I hear
I’m a seasoned Mestizo pheasant,
best strutting actress
in the whole Oaxaca alfalfa fi...
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Categories:
heimlich, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Light Verse
The Halloween Kitten
...Hiding in the bushes he waits to pounce,
he enjoys Goobers and Gobstoppers, right to the very last ounce.
He might settle for a Snickers or even a Kit Kat,
he’s black, shiny and sneaky this Hallow...
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Categories:
heimlich, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poems I
...Poems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless ...
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Categories:
heimlich, creation, god, muse, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Brief Flings: Epigrams
...Sweet Centerless Sixteen
by Michael R. Burch
Inconsolable as “love” had left your heart,
you woke this morning eager to pursue
warm lips again, or something “really cool”
on which to press you...
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Categories:
heimlich, first love, humor, light,
Form: Quatrain
Limericks Vi - Religion
...Limericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
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Categories:
heimlich, christian, humor, humorous, light,
Form: Limerick
Limericks Iii - Grab Bag
...Limericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The...
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Categories:
heimlich, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
...Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not ...
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Categories:
heimlich, humor, humorous, light, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Distress Voices-
...A baby cries, why cause it has no voice yet;
No intellectual communication skill it…
Seems to bother us so
And the screams and hollering, woos…
Moving on
Crying long
Melancholy
M...
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Categories:
heimlich, caregiving, depression, engagement,
Form: Free verse
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