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The Draw breaks Bazball Law
... According to Bazball law, deplore the days of yore, hell bent..ignore what went before Why even mull over a tie..cull every dull lull…do or die super nova…run rates soar…can chase whatever they ......

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Categories: in fine fettle, sports,
Form: Free verse
Biscuits
...What‘s better than a biscuit? Hard to debunk Treasure trunk funk Should you let It get wetter Would you dare risk it? The trick a quick dunk Or could flunk..flick..kerplunk........

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Categories: in fine fettle, food, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



ODE TO THE YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR
... I stood at the threshold Of a promising life, Ready to step out bold, Face challenges and strife. I wanted to soar, Like an eagle in the sky. Eager to conquer more, To reach really hig......

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Categories: in fine fettle, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chilly Cheeks
...[Inspired - with much gratitude - by Jan’s poem There’s No Knocking On Heaven’s Loo Door and Caren and Tom’s comments on it] *** The toilets in heaven are cold on yo......

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Categories: in fine fettle, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Supple Whisper
...Our thoughts are whispered in the cool night breeze. I often fall into this snare when I opine around your demise. The breeze whispers, and the spirit hangs tight for my appease. ......

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Categories: in fine fettle, allusion, beauty, childhood, destiny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In Quietness Divine
...in quietness divine the xanthous zephyr balm a citrusy ascent to sip on Summer’s tea a lovely day is spent in quietness divine a fine fet......

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Categories: in fine fettle, nature, seasons,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
State of the Art Ii
...State of the Art (II) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~......

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Categories: in fine fettle, muse, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poems Ii
...Poems about Poems (II) Kin by Michael R. Burch for Richard Moore 1. Shrill gulls, how like my thoughts you, struggling, rise to distant bliss? the weightless blue of skies that are no......

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Categories: in fine fettle, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnets Xxxiii-Xli
...Sonnets XXXIII-XLI The Folly of Wisdom by Michael R. Burch She is wise in the way that children are wise, looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes I must bend down to her to understand. ......

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Categories: in fine fettle, child, childhood, children, death,
Form: Sonnet
Poems About Poets I
...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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Categories: in fine fettle, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
Abide: After Aubade By Philip Larkin
...Abide by Michael R. Burch after Philip Larkin's "Aubade" It is hard to understand or accept mortality— such an alien concept: not to be. Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion, or to s......

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Categories: in fine fettle, addiction, death, depression, drink,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Thats Settled Then
...The shock that I felt was enormous, as the tab on the cat food I pulled, a fountain of biscuits shot out of the top- the box, it was actually full ! I stood, disbelieving, bewildered, this never......

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Categories: in fine fettle, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Settling
...Soft skin like a petal, long after butterflies settle, a shoulder against my lip, in such fine fettle, and testing my mettle, my palm naturally finding your hip. My breath in your hair, as my l......

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Categories: in fine fettle, engagement, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Let the Dust Settle
...L-et the dust settle, I-nstead of making it gray; E-vade the rugged wind, Z-ealously take trouble A-way. G-ive time till things get calmer, O-bliterate the devil's way; D-istress will r......

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Categories: in fine fettle, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Bled Out
...More things can happen or could have happened, From a cold metal, Sharpened in fine fettle, Making skin nettled, Damaging the mettles, To keep minds unsettled, Provoking to ask, if this is or i......

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Categories: in fine fettle, bullying, conflict, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse

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