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Sound Bites: 8-26-2024

...Festival Of San Fermin

Running the gamble
— living the dream

(Pamplona Spain: July, 1977)



‘Pathway To Hell ...”

Money is to promises
what bureaucracy is to care
Chasing lost indemn...

Love's Manacles

...


     You are the Angel of curiousity and poison, 
in my little shop of errors.
You are my penance, a dungeon as I sentence myself in pre-judiced derision stoked, 
            with desire's f...

The Font Of Angels

...Desperation to breed contempt
the moment shattered
time illy spent

Choices bartered and freedom gone
the reaper chanting
old righteous wrongs

Panic stricken the nights repeat
the days long...

Illy

...Last year my sister left this earthly plain.
Her sudden departure caused me deep pain.
She went peacefully into the night.
But, it still causes such a fright.

Her 49 years on this Earth was not...

Illy's 1st Birthday of Not Being Here

...Happy Birthday, my sister, dear.
How I wish you were still here.

Today is, for me, a solemn day.
Oh, how I wish, you could leave your Heaven today.

I wish you could see your son.
He's retrea...

Entry Code: 3ew

...3 - e - w :    
3 echoes each - every washroom

three e wishes
three easily earned early wishes
three e's-illy urned earl lee wishes

three silly urned earl lee wish-es
threes a'lee-urned ear...

Alive On My Death Bed

...For the last time I surrender, 
To the throne of excruciating pains, 
Promising not to complain,
All like an icicle it seemed, cold and illy.

For the last time I give up,
And a tear like silve...

Christmas Socks - Rhyme

...C
H
R
I
Sweaters known as “ugly” are worn by some in the Christmas season.
T
M
A
Special socks – often fuzzy – are also worn for whatever reason!

Such socks, though mo...

Doggerel I

...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse

A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch

Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ dec...

Sonnets Xcviii-C

...Sonnets XCVIII-CII

Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...

Various Heresies

...If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch

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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in...

Willy Nilly

...Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, still...

Suffusion of Profuse Elation

...Ah...herewith ma usual
     dose of pablum from this meal
lee mouthed muttering 
     doggerel wordsmith,
     who now writes...
     so here's the deal,
which reiterates a former zeal
namely,...

Salute Brother

...(To a brother, he gives his biryhday celebration to be with the less fortunate kids. He is a hand of this nation)
Love ain't an illy feeling healed but a commuted commitment
Care and fair ain't a l...

Didn'T Mean To

...It was a heartfelt indulge of an act
The night like knights we lighted
Like a king yah served my want
Like a deal we moved on and on
To the peak, the click of a nick
The  first time, like a key ...

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