Long Cover girl Poems

Light verse and nonsense verse

Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch 
 
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe distance
let me admire your persistence.



The Trouble with Elephants
by Michael R. Burch...

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Epigrams VI

These are humorous epigrams including a form I call "Less Heroic Couplets." 



Less Heroic Couplets: Mini-Ode to Stamina
by Michael R. Burch
 
When you’ve given so much
that I can’t bear your touch,
then from a safe...

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Erotic Poems I

Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.


Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained...

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Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!

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Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.

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Negligibles
by Michael...

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Once upon a time
In a vast kingdom of Modern land
Oddly not in a far far a way suburban
Was there a pretty girl
Prettier than the Venus, some claimed
Softer than petals of rose, maids alleged

She was skinny,...

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Virginia was looking for an adventure at sea 
Her life was turned upside down due to being a worker bee 
Stress took its toll in her honey loving hive 
When one morning her romantic fantasy...

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We lost a special guy  

Worked secretly as a spy  

Sean Connery was his name  

Acting smooth in a manipulative game  

Taking a character from literature  

Making it good looking...

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They say life is easy for a beautiful girl
They expect us to always smile 
like the world is sprouting daisy daily
But underneath the good genetics 
lies a girl whose scared to end up lonely

She brings...

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I thought I would share some of my favorite items that I use frequently. They are materialistic and in all honestly most I could live without! Whoopie pies are a dessert that resembles two chocolate...

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" That's not my elephant!"
Ella yelled at the zoo-keeper...
walking slowly on her hands and feet
scaring the second grader away;
and making a funny face
she added, " She doesn't eat spaghetti!"
with a strong southern accent.
" Young lady,...

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Between The Devil and The Sea
( Scylla and Charybdis )
 
Cosmetic the creature cover girl
is accessible only at night
a picture female in her temple
laying askew on an alter ego
 
A de lux harlot in romantic...

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If I can not be held in her arms, or weep into the cradle of her neck
and smell the sweet sweat, smoke and cover girl scent
 Nor lie in her lap and listen to her...

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The date’s been set and many will attend
Just the penguin will be wearing his tux
A “come as you are” I did extend 
So expect to see antlers on the bucks

In the heart of Sherwood Forest...

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Splashed in lilac scent and robe of satin
She contemplates her choice of dresses
In her hand a string of pearls
In her trance, a cover girl-

A curling iron upon her tresses
Pale as a mushroom
In her room
A counter...

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If I showed you the real me …would you accept me ?
If I showed you my insecurities… would you want me?
So many people say they want to see the real you but when you show...

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Every time we have a conversation its about where i can take ya
and I see where you stay, and I know what you making, man she bout to catch the vapors
my own family used to...

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Sarah was always dressed in black,
and wearing that midnight pear bracelet
made me shiver spotting teeth marks on her neck;
was she a vamp ready to attack?


No, Sarah wasn't a beauty
neither sensual or attractive as Melody;
and what...

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make up makes you cry
numb your days with lies
wake up save your pride
when will you realize

Don't you cloes your eyes
you were undoubtly free
won't you put aside the pride
we were unforgetably free

make up 
makes you proud...

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THE   BEE!
Not allowed to write about love
No reason or whys
This is about my first crush
The girl passed right by me

I smile softly to the one with curls
She is the cutest I’ve ever seen
Her...

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Elegance Charm And Grace.
.
Elegance charm and grace
Decadence with a photogenic beauticians idealistic face
Stylish fashion a portrayal of high class Ladies at the time
For those of means and the modernistic trendy mind
The social butterfly the belle...

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In your photograph, I see your face,
As does the entire world.
Do they see what lies beyond,
Inside, that little girl?
As I look into your eyes
I sense you dream, you hope.
I pray each time I gaze at...

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Rare beauty,
blue diamond,
your smile burns a hole through the seams of my soul,
Isaac Newton was wrong,
This love will never descend,
eye contact,
I think an atom split,
B
O
O
M
nobody else in the world matters,
voluptuous curves,
dangerous if you are not...

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