Lilliput Poems - Poems about Lilliput

After the Party, I Woke up on a Tropical Island

...After the party,
I’ve found myself on a tropical island 
Just like how Gulliver was taken to the island, Lilliput. 
I haven’t either heard or visited that island.
A fantasy world with
Fathomless...

The Balloon

...Balloon, balloon, so high in the air,
Its destination I know not where, 
Its point of departure, that is too 
A mystery in the sky of blue. 

I too wonder, wonder, why oh why
This bright drifte...

Bookworm-PS

...
It was a dark and stormy night, or so the story goes
Another of those wondrous tales to keep us on our toes
Like looking glass and wonderland, grim witches and their spells
Peter Pan and his los...

Gulliver's Renown

...Tiny
villagers
inhabited
Lilliput Island.
Gulliver unaware
found himself tied down
became renown
for being
obese.


written July 4, 2021...

Doggerel Ii

...Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms wher...

The Second Curse of the Horny Toad

...Happily Never After (the Second Curse of the Horny Toad)
by Michael R. Burch

He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled...

Happily Never After

...Happily Never After: the Second Curse of the Horny Toad
by Michael R. Burch
 
He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled...

Do You Need Some Pixie Dust

...Laughing, dancing, having the time of her life,
Faerie Fun went from mushroom house to toadstool cottage,
Spreading joy,
Playing with everyone
In a kind and pleasant way.
There was going to be n...

Toybox Story

...taking a flyer 
but
why should we bother
to try a
new thing?

History tells and
even with bells on
it yells out a lie

unclean
unclean
have you seen 
how unclean?

Sin is the thing we ...

Eppur Si Muove

...(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "e...

A Nook and a Storybook

...I traveled through time
 My imagination I took
 where adventures abound
 in a nook and a storybook

 Up the beanstalk I'd climb
  And many treasures I'd take
  Then away I would run
 Before t...

The Globe Tis Choked

...Rid me of this damn corn,
the progeny of past laquered 
loves, its to, its fro, they lap 
like cats at milk, destroying all

Returning then to orange groves
and furnace fire/sing to me the 
so...

Men of Lilliput

...if the span of your attention
was a mighty mountain range
along its length and side to side
would you think it strange
if lines wre drawn upon you
by some men of lilliput
that they might rule a...

Freedom

...A courier of peace; a coupon of hope
Your cost, though, I have been made alien,
Your fruitfulness I heartily grope.
But the lashed back in servitude asks, “WHEN”?
A befitting vestment on servitud...

Arise Nigeria

...Nigeria,my country,
I remember you with mixed feelings
A great contraption
A mere geographical expression.

You have never been a nation!
A mere colonial creation
A time bomb awaiting explosio...

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