Long Deforms Poems

1. MORNING HAS BROKEN 
The men, in lines, tramp two by two,
forgetting all the women who
indulged them through a night of tricks
(their lips designed with crimson sticks,
their eyes a wild mascara mix)

and think instead on...

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Animal Poems II

These are poems about animals, limericks and other forms of doggerel.



Ballade of the Bicameral Camel
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a camel who loved to hump.
Please get your lewd minds out of their...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI

On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right miss
how the hell can he kiss
when his horn deforms her...

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These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch

Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
“When again, gentle bride?”
“Nevermore!” bright-eyed Raven replied.



The...

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"The Mallard" and other Animal Limericks

The Mallard
by Michael R. Burch

The mallard is a fellow
whose lips are long and yellow
with which he, honking, kisses
his bawdy, boisterous mistress;
my pond's their loud bordello!



On the Horns of a Dilemma...

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There has always been an inter-outer over-under tender balance of loveless socio-equations as they super fit the psychosocial sexe-endices in this modern garner of pluses/minuses/bytes and scribbles mostly incommunicado inexperience and parental impreciseness as to,...

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I find myself wanting to believe that the times of bona fide innocence ended with our forefathers decades ago
My heart persists on convincing my mind to see that the dent on our generation is irreversible,...

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In Pleasure          
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 in “Death OF A Rose” By Nate Spears


White suit, top hat, pride feeling higher than spectacular 
The ugly duckling has...

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Silhouettes dance on the grass
Whispery and lissome, 
Haunting the shadows of noon
With reminders of beauty
When we were struggling to write
That phrase, verse, haiku
Lovely words gripping hearts
With faith and hope and love
Kindness breathed on the soul
In...

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Vain
When you are more beautiful than any thing created
and all gaze upon you, dwelling in your magnificent
with voice confident in the rhythm of poetry
Radiance of your glory shines as you glow in perfection.
Your mind sharp...

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She wishes this love would turn cold
This care would run away
Independence would visit a second time
Untangle her from this tango of virtues and vices 
She wonders where she went wrong
Is it this choice of love?

Every...

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Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior,
being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior.
Compliances and obedience for the hero or nymph resort,
names and numbers as taste for pleasure of the...

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I am very pleased to be able to present
a sixth collaboration with great friend and poet,
Robert Lindley, who is well known to you all
for his magnificent epic masterpieces.
Our latest collaboration is marked by
an unexpected brevity...

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I am very pleased to be able to present
our sixth collaboration, with my great friend
and very talented poet, Lawrence Sharp.
Always a true honor for me to be able to 
collaborate with such a friend and...

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The world isn't gentle
It can be callous and cold
Dangling hope in front of you
While swiping the wallet
From your back pocket
We're supposed to have a chance
But the average layman
Will never see their efforts bear fruit
Life tears...

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Pillars Fall

Pillars fall between swift moving clouds collapsed
They were once white fluffy ghosts along the coast

Statues watch suspiciously at a distance
Recognize their engineered solidity secure

Their facility for beauty, at play inside the mist
As history deforms,...

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O Lord sprinkle clean water on me
With your open hands do me welcome
Free me from all idols
For it is unworthy living among dead souls
Was me clean from everything that defiles
Erase my name from bad books...

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He hears again the far off 
jiggling of keys in an ignition,
as the car rocks
his ears magnifying scrapes of sound.
eyes still seeing strafing lights on a dim road.

He had already turned from the windscreen,
A dark...

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