Irony Poems

This creamy light confuses me,

A weight too much to bear; 

But thinking is pursuing,

A pale thought, thin as parchment,

Bland as water, zoned in;

Extreme action no option, it is circumspect,

Linked, set aside,

A day-dream pursuing a white line,

Shadowless, infinite - it can...Read More

- Hello, how are you?
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Oh me… yes, I…
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- Really
- OK well, see you next time, goodbye.



posted on February 22, 2020...Read More

Yesterday I owned the world 
I did what I had to do 
And then more. 

My home was clean 
Laundry caught up 
And then a trip to the store. 

Children were fed 
Sports and lessons done 
And they began to...Read More

They’re big fans of themselves
basking in mirrored glory
their own shadows they adore
will talk your ear off
if you let them
they’re everywhere
I unwittingly attract them ~ 
I may as well be a magnet
they love me because I’m quite happy
being polite not talking...Read More

CUCUMBER I IN A PICKLE SALAD-

O' I'm in pickle
found my means in a garden.
picked, washed,  cook,  LOOK!

I have evolved went,
from a cucumber to a,
pickle I’m broken.

so stressed out now I’m
being cut-up and placed in
bowl made of salad

cucumberly, ...Read More

Two roads divide in a modern wood
One paved for war - the other for peace
But which is the one most taken we ask
The common or the one least understood.

Blue skies beckon at the end of each trail
between tunnels of twisted...Read More

If it's offensive to one it is offensive to all unless...all take offense to the one.


John G. Lawless
2/19/2020
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"Out damned spot" where nothing grows,
a vain man's curse in the midst of perfection;
the whole, nourished and pampered
yet this blemish - snarling imperfection,
taunting like a tormentor's tongue,
or YES! Perhaps perpetrated by
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He made me the centre of gravity.

Pride dressed, lone like blood moon

Whose deserted home became vanity

Did I become evil or was I rune?

Greater insight and realized sanity,

I was the diamond his life festoon....Read More

chewing 
misery
a dagger 
in the morsel
jabbed 
slash on the heart
an evil thrall
enslaved 
my conscience
my mother the morsel
she rebirthed 
as the chicken
i just ate




#simamittalpoetry
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i planted my dad
it was a fad
his ashes under the sod
bottled into an organic burial pod
his soul came out of the free
to see himself turn into a tree!
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I will not hold your golden trophy high above MY head
Or wear your name engraved with cheap polyester thread
I’m so sorry you can’t decide what to wear today,
Will it be the Christian Dior or the Versace green lamay?
Your Jimmy Choos...Read More

Sometime times keeps moving
Moving is the times

Time is just a moving thing
It never stops just keeps going

A wise man once said inadvertent to the reality
Limit to the lazy man
Prophecy to say 
Man he may kill time 
But one day...Read More

Honeybee
you say you are 
just one of many -
but you help 
my flowers grow
and you always
sweeten my day

Skylark
you say your song 
is just ordinary -
but your melody
is my morning sonata
it makes my heart sing
while the sky
is still dark

Friend
you say you
are...Read More

The scarecrow silently screams in a still life silhouette,

dripping lines of dampened darkness across the vignette.

With ragged coverings drooping, pinned to a pecking post,

he shivers in the still breeze, always threatened by the host.

A murder flaps in frozen time, neither...Read More

WHERE THERE IS A WILL

It has been over three months now and still no Grans will
Through the letterbox; comes another, got to be paid bill
  
As the insurance didn’t cover for my Grans Zombie death
Then left all alone, to...Read More

hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
 
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch it,
put it in a jar,
set it on a shelf
and then you'll be a Superstar.
 
When...Read More

Duet, Minor Key
by Michael R. Burch

Without the drama of cymbals
or the fanfare and snares of drums,
I present my case
stripped of its fine veneer:
Behold, thy instrument.

Play, for the night is long.

Originally published by Brief Poems. Keywords/Tags: Love, Lovers, Couple, Coupling, Duo,...Read More

Brain isn’t working, 
sawdust between my ears,
All the connections broken, 
can’t go through the gears,
I really am stupid,
more dense than railroad tracks,
A haze has descended, 
at least covering up the cracks.

Was sharp as a razor, 
just the other day,
Now all...Read More

Everyone dreams of being

In the clouds

But only know how

To get there by

Smoking loud.



I'm tired of the weed.

People only

Know how to feed

Bad habits.



They want to lead

By example.

They concede and

Get trampled.



Things get rocky.

Life turns from solid

To shambles.



Procrastination is

A Fascination.

Stress levels increase.

We all...Read More

born beneath a tangle of stars

cream cry Hamal

blood-warm straw

away in a manger

the whistle of distant collie

 

but all too soon

a frosty breeze chews the nostrils

the farmed proletariat

mass in trucks with fear

spindle limbs hacked, knife hung on a hook

 

dragging her...Read More

At the bottom
Of every heaven
Hell there is
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Heresy
Lives vibrantly
When filament of faith
turns into shadows

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Let children learn values
They are sweets
Licked when they chew red pepper
On the highway of life
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The sea was in a beer swilling mood.
Peroni guggling in frothy blasts.
Swirling, white and foamy, cool gulps hitting the back of my throat found my feet and shins and knees. 
Pulling back sucking my feet into sandpits, playing for fun....Read More