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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I

"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...

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Categories: askance, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form: Limerick

Rejection Slips 2

Rejection Slips 2

The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
 
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
 
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,

the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
 
the face in the...

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Categories: askance, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form: Free verse

Free Verse I

Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch

When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.

When I held you in...

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Categories: askance, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form: Free verse

Poems About Things That Break I

Poems about Things that Break I
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...

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Categories: askance, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Things That Break Iii

Poems about Things that Break III
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...

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Categories: askance, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Lxxi-Lxxx

Sonnets LXXI-LXXX

Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch

Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly, in despair.

Because you...

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Categories: askance, desire, grief, loss, love, rain, romance, sun,
Form: Sonnet

The Dancing: the Last Dance

Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?

It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.

The...

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Categories: askance, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Zolar the Inet God

(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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Categories: askance, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form: Quatrain

The Miracle of Marshside Lea

In Marshside Lea, there stood a tree, old in trunk and bough
'Twas long ago, this tale, although, it may still stand there now
And in its shade, the young sheep played as often did young lambs
Whilst...

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Categories: askance, allegory, angel, animal, crazy, fantasy, farm, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed

Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...

tonight October  25th, 2022 
terrifically summarily requoting 

poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley 
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...

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Categories: askance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form: Rhyme

The Ghost of Christmas Present

Terrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.

Whilst having a natter, tame turkey type chatter
Before...

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Categories: askance, adventure, animal, bird, celebration, christmas, food, freedom,
Form: Quatrain

Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed

Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
(summarily iterated June 30th, 2020)

I share the following lines
with utmost delight
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
June twenty ninth
two thousand and twenty

corrigible, fallible,
and intelligible light
hearted fella (aging
baby boomer) usually polite
doth not trend toward
superficial nor...

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Categories: askance, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse

I Crowned the Write Full Missus Champ Paean Practical Joker

I crowned the write full missus "champ paean practical joker"

The following moniker “innocent prankster” 
awarded, hashtagged, and qualified wife
as trickster de jure appended 
to alluded spouse 
(then of twenty five plus years),
when she pulled a...

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Categories: askance, abuse, adventure, april, confusion, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Tears Of A Clown

Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or the surreptitious posture of the laugh it off as...

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Categories: askance, angst, anxiety, august, confusion, deep, emotions, sad,
Form: Free verse

Emotional Shrapnel

Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
the reckless chilling bursts of wild incendiary angst a blight,
such burdens...

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Categories: askance, anxiety, august, change, courage, deep, feelings, moving
Form: Free verse

Filched formerly anatomical slender man me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!

Absolute zero escape
velocity gutted dance
sing days (contra and square),
cuz metabolic full abundance
abdominal adipose tissue acceptance
not in accordance
with light as a feather
physique I...

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Categories: askance, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Lipstick Girls

Lipstick Girls
                 By Stark Hunter and D Lee

1.	“When the Lipstick Girls Walk By”

You can push and shove your way,
Past...

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Categories: askance, desire, myth, sexy,
Form: Free verse

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 18:4

18.4
“The universe is but a thought in Consciousness
In Reality it is nothing
One who sees the true nature of existence and non-existence 
never ceases to exist”


Contemplation level-1

Is it so? Poof! Gone! A bubble of illusion 
Appearing...

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Categories: askance, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

My Sweet Susan

(9th grade love affair with a blind cream boy and a sweet voice finger stroke magic girl in the 60's, 
unfettered with a keen process of kissing vertical in the Clark hall, hoping to go...

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Categories: askance, emotions, funny love, girlfriend, humorous, thanks, ,
Form: Free verse

Ephemeral Laments of Technicality

Ephemeral Laments of Technicality

Qualifications of a criminal mind
Magnifications of virtue in all of mankind
Qauntifications of meaning you cannot seem to find
Fractal notations in dreaming that you’d never leave behind

Geometric cubism born of Platonic Solids
Ego-centric hubris...

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Categories: askance, life,
Form: Rhyme