Long Dieting Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s out-of-stock -...

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The best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part IV

King Henry the Great
by Michael R. Burch

Long live the King! 
Send him victorious, 
happy and glorious, 
long to reign over us: 
Long live the King! 

Long...

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I’m really not a jealous person. I am happy for those who are fortunate in life.  If I see a lady who has a beautiful family that loves her, I am happy for her....

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"Book Worms"   Posted 1 Feb 2021

i'm reading a book about anti-gravity      I can't put it down

that bio of Led Zeppelin's guitarist      is a...

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A mobile phone is a strange old thing,
For the joy, love, and pain it can bring.
People can spend, hours a day,
Scrolling through apps, and games they can play.

But life is worth, so much more,
Than making...

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I am a child of the universe
The one to have begot, on this earth, her rightful place
I am a being made of flesh and blood
A being with a soul, with sensitivity as her ruling word

I...

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My middle aged spread is just spreading
So I thought I should join a new gym
Got to fit in my dress for a wedding
With some exercise I could get thin

I’ve got these new gym pants that...

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A cry came out of Charleville ... "Please help our bilby mate! 
Extinction is now on the cards, let's save him from this fate." 
This little Aussie battler, folks, is disappearing fast. 
Five other species...

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A frog once asked a wizard to turn him into a prince.
So, the wizard granted his wish and cast a great spell.
The frog was pleased and he hopped off into the distance,
Looking for a princess...

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New Year's starts after all the holidays.                            ...

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old folk’s home bully

s/he’d been teased, spit on,
beat up, insulted, laughed at &
sent home crying 
on many an occasion,
all through elementary school &
when the hormones kicked in
during high school,
she saw even more turmoil
as her/his friends
drove...

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She counts her calories,
Reminders that even her hips
Can lie, as they lye quietly against
His leg, hesitant to breathe,
Soft as a kiss, yet longing to exhale,
Winds of respite from the calories,
Counted silently, amid 
Vegetables and fruits,...

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as america’s gluttons gear up for a day of
mass stuffing of the face
to celebrate the 
genocide of native-americans in this country
one can’t help but find the dual-speak 
concerning the 
need to be
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to be a humorous...

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Diagnosis
another two edged sword
Here we go
some other pill to swallow
choke it down and see

Will this one leave me blowing me nose in my hand
or crying for days on end on the floor?
What about the mysterious...

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As you comment on everyone soo often and deny me a status of understanding
Whatever I try to express
So I’ll get off my soapbox and just tell you
You don’t fully understand it
I wont explain it or...

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People who are in abusive situations have banded together to tell the world about abuse with the Black Dot program
Comments are rampant about it being foolish, they are not washing their hands, they need not...

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Those endless talks of 
giving the fat a trim
Beauty is now the 
monopoly of the slim! 

Sinuous and slender
The hourglass figure
The thinner, the better.

Dieting and slimming 
down tricks
ofcourse selling like hot 
cakes

Tis a pity, I...

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Among Solomon’s first love commands in the book of his Song of Songs,

He adjures the young maidens by the gazelle, and how charm makes them strong.

For the gazelle is a gorgeous creature with  beauty...

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Supposedly the ideal woman's measurements

Used to be 36-32-36

That's no longer reality which the fashion industry

Is finally starting to acknowledge

We're starting to see ads with a little heavier models

Because a recent study showed

That 63% of Americans...

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The supposedly ideal woman's measurements

Used to be 36-32-36

That's no longer reality which the fashion industry

It's finally starting to acknowledge

We're seeing ads with slightly heavier models

Because a recent study showed

That 63% of North Americans are overweight

I'm...

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i cannot begin to say how grateful i am,
that you took me away to bring me back again,
what meant so much more that i could see,
was so conformed from reality,
it was a daze in a...

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Oreos with chocolate chips
  Potato sticks with onion dip

Drip the cheese all over those fries
  Three scoops of ice cream and apple pie
 
Frito-lay corn chips beside a guacamole-filled bowl
  Don't forget...

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He was an unpopular celebrity who enjoyed his liquid food
Acting weirdly normal when he was in a happy mood

He’d been on a heavy diet and was eating lots of jumbo shrimp
They were disgustingly delicious with...

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definitely we are to live in constitutional harmony 
to the liver 
i have spoken 
forgive me 
i whisper 
and you care not 

for you are shaken 
and quiver 
and rock with volition
as to dance in...

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Middle Class Retirees.  (Algarve)

When she gets up her husband has gone to the golf course, she drinks 
a cup of weak tea and has a toast without butter. Then the grooming 
begins it takes...

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