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Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
bobbing, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
bobbing, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
bobbing, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
bobbing, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Mystical Song of TreesPRELUDE.
When the sky and world are dark no sounds are heard in the woods. Perhaps the scrabbling of night creatures on the hunt fo food. But no sound of woodpeckers ra ta tatting, bird song...
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Categories:
bobbing, animal, conflict, desire, environment, fairy, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
bobbing, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
bobbing, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep PersonificationsDream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
bobbing, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
bobbing, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
bobbing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
bobbing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
BubblesIs there room to care for the penultimate?
Can't decide if the space can satisfy two collard greens.
One oblivious cabbage... one who has desperately tried to expand the space, to save the others, who...
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Categories:
bobbing, change,
Form:
Sestina
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
bobbing, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Annual Fair PreparationEvery year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some of the old events that appeared a little dangerous. How...
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Categories:
bobbing, community, games,
Form:
Rhyme
Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen
This will be the third between the WBC, WBA
Stepping into the...
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Categories:
bobbing, character, history, men, places, sports, usa, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Rum N Raisin 2 - the Hunt For Tim BucktooRum and Raisin, on the mat, were playing with their toys
Their humans had the tv on to give some background noise
Rum said, “Raisin, there is something that I want to do,
To meet a man from...
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Categories:
bobbing, animal, cat, nursery rhyme, ocean, sea,
Form:
Narrative
A Sudden Recollection - Text VersionEarly last October, on a cool and breezeless morning, one o’ my grandsons, Grant, and I had a half a dozen lines
Bobbin’ near the cattails, in a small secluded bay…catchin’ perch and crappie…when the...
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Categories:
bobbing, fishing, grandchild, grandson,
Form:
Rhyme
HiccupsHiccups
An involuntary spasm
of the diaphragm
and respiratory organs,
with a sudden closure
of the glottis
and a characteristic
sound like that of a cough.
Rather mundane topic
lest one cursed
with said minor inconvenience
that...
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Categories:
bobbing, 12th grade, anxiety, blue, cheer up, drink,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wheat and the TareThey crept upon our shores eating away the inner core
They crept upon our shore knocking on our barricade doors
Tall stout men with peevish eyes and strange looks on their white faces
Invade our quarters looking for...
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Categories:
bobbing, community, conflict, confusion, death, desire, violence, western,
Form:
Narrative
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
bobbing, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior JobberJinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
bobbing, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Old Chris Kringle Halloween JingleOLD CHRIS CRINGLE HALLOWEEN JINGLE
Did you know that Santa always had a secret desire,
To explore and experience the holiday known as Halloween!
This jolly spirit whom brought the world of mankind such joy,
And wonder on the...
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Categories:
bobbing, adventure, christmas, halloween, holiday, humorous, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Bunyip Forest RevisitedAlong the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers now a new facade.
Need for...
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Categories:
bobbing, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
I Will Remember You MostI am not sure whether I am missing you or that you are missing life~
...
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Categories:
bobbing, brother, memory,
Form:
Free verse
No Killer Skills InvolvedNo skills involved,
just natural instincts.
No spiritual development skills,
leftbrain worded messages
about rightbrain instinctive
natural/spiritual,
indigenously multicultural
yang-out/yintegrity resonance
Like singing and dancing,
sucking and copulating,
olding and young scolding,
Persistently historic
resilient
LeftBrain verbal...
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Categories:
bobbing, art, education, health, heaven, humor, parents, peace,
Form:
Political Verse