Long Aphorism Poems

Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch

Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...

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Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...

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Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

Love’s full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).



Love
by Michael R. Burch

Love is either wholly folly,
or fully holy.



Nun Fun Undone
by Michael R. Burch

Abbesses'
recesses
are not for excesses!



Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch

Life’s saving...

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'Twas the night of that particular evening whose noon-tide bade wondrous twilights and whose moon suffused in its consummated prophecy. Men perched themselves around balefully dire fires and professed eerie tales to themselves in unsettling...

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JACOB AND JACOBA
Once upon time, in a land not far, were a born prince and his baby 
sister.
Their names given were Jacob and Jacoba.
Now the tale goes that Jacob was a very insisting child.
His sister...

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Avoiding risk
is not always the best way to feed
and assertively, but not overbearingly, water
resilient opportunities.

Patriarchalism
is not ever the best way to build
resilient ecofeminist cooperative opportunities.

It may too often be exclaimed,
"The best offense
is a strong defense."

Defensive...

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*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The Ends Justify the Means” but may.
Many have said “Rules Were...

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I got a job,
got only one thing to do
My job is simply this,
it is to protect you
Nowadays, I guess you could say,
I would be called a bodyguard
But back in the day,
when bodyguards were a terror,
I...

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My heart is an ebon swallowed night where nobody ever goes,       
raging in a recondite rift like ripples resounding in rueful repose.       ...

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“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

Said quote attributed to Aristotle,
     stands the test of time,
     and not only did out last
many another...

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Epigrams II

Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
 
***
 
Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch

Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long after the sex dies—
the source of endless exercise.

***

The One True...

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What did your grandmother tell you about happiness?

Bottom line,
All you have is your health.
Nothing about money or celebrity status at all.

Yes. That sounds familiar.
And, what did your father hope for your happiness?

He was more nuanced...

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 Four things come not back:
the spoken word;  the sped arrow;
time past; the neglected opportunity.

Omar Ibn Al-Halif, Aphorism
___________________ 

On a beautiful Fall day-  I went for a café,
pushing open the shop door, I...

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Sue doesn’t sit so demurely in her motorised wheelchair.
She’ll tell folks to stop gawking as it's very rude to stare!
Beneath her tenuous frame is quite a formidable young girl,
born with brittle bones but in her...

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Written: April 10, 2024, For Constance la France Contest

Rumi Quote: "Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what...

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How grateful I shall ever be for the creative gal or guy,
Who concocted and perpetuated the luscious "punkin" pie!
Ah! The thought of a golden "punkin" pie with flaky crust,
Stimulates my taste buds with sinful epicurean...

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I am looking for a way out.
I have been on the battlefield for too long now.
To see what my efforts are worth,
I escalate to seek progress profound.
However, I have gain insight along with a philosophical...

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Yellowhead Highway

(Outside the doorsteps of wilderness).

Riding in the back of the car
Smell of gas leaking, gone too far
Engine filled, should remain empty
Down this #1 Highway to oblivion
The road signs get his attention. 

Now he knows...

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The Running Chestnut sure-enough a good day for fishing                          ...

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ARMAGEDDON!
Defining the human character avers that yet we may be different our likelihood 
     remnants the same.
Figments of yesterday lingers.
Never a will lost but a being found.
The sylph sleeps with soul.

Aphorism...

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They were to meet in middle of the mall
He clearly misunderstood... his downfall
If there had been some writing on the wall
This fight might not have happened at all

Unsure of what to wear or where to...

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‘Is love not bitter’? I repeat once again,
‘Think with your brain ’it can make you insane.

Rejection pierces my heart like a sharp sword,
Makes me move faster and slower than old ford.

Pain grips my heart with...

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It's far better to be an ass
Than to be bothered by an ass.1

Had God not known what an ass was,
He'd sure not have denied it horns.2

It comes an assling, goes an ass.3


7.1.2023

1. An aphorism by...

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I write poetry not to change the world,
but to change the way I feel.
Sometimes it’s just made-up fantasy,
sometimes, something a little more real.

I’m not a sophisticated poet you see,
using litotes, anapest, or alliteration.
Though I’ve been...

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He the heir of ding a-ling
Not to proclaim again 
The universe; below the belt of lonesome theme 
Nothing like Euripedes scale?
Warriors! Abide no more!
Let him hear! By anothers winter's tale!
Let him speak! 
Verbalize his own...

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