Long Garbage dump Poems

Limericks III - Grab Bag

Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:

Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch

The English are very...

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Limericks V - Politics

Baked Alaskan
by Michael R. Burch

There is a strange yokel so flirty
she makes whores seem icons of purity.
With all her winkin’ and blinkin’
Palin seems to be thinkin’—
"Ah culd save th’ free world ’cause...

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Mother of Cowards
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

So unlike the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Spread-eagled, showering gold, a strumpet stands:
A much-used trollop with a torch, whose...

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"dedicated to Robert a Owen...a soldier who served"

bombing the monster and his minions to
on the side of the right,the just,and the true
bullets hit the bird called B-17...falling fast to earth with a shrieking savage scream

end...

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My pulse quickened
As tears streamed down my face
I felt my soul race
Notes rising from discarded bits
Yanked out of plastic bags
from decaying pits
Skin sun baked and bleeding splits
Garbage, hand formed into instruments
So that these deaf ears...

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THE GARBAGE DUMP

 I saw him get into his car and drive it every day
Just a short distance down the road to a dump not far away.
I never could quite understand what lured him to...

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When she is pregnant, the father long gone, the street her home, she knows she cannot 
afford, or provide for you, yet, will not allow you to be forcefully taken from her womb.

When you are...

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'O' spirits of land and Gods,
You beautify our world, 
With crops, fruits and forest roots;
Lakes flow full of precious water,
Vacillating fresh air to breath;
I kindle incense sticks, 
Embellish with colourful florets;
Gratitude you for your mercy,
To...

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One of these depressed, depraved, morbid nights
I shall awake to the God damned game of life

And sit under the graying light
Of the foolish full moon

And laminate upon my luminance
And chew up the garments of past...

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Around the Laptop
On my table
As if garbage dump
That is useful to me
As a worm in it 
Opened and a half or a few page read books 
Written notes never completed
As if a lunatic asylum 
Without...

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When all around is darkness
Who provides the sun
When everyone is serious
Who is poking fun
When pollution clouds the bright blue sky
Who brings clarity
Who tries to bring some common sense
To mass insanity
When people kill for a belief...

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My child asked me one day, how a garbage dump affects the earth.
It made me think about all it's worth
And 
What we do to it on an average day
How our choices affect it in every...

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Her hands gnarled and knotted
slumping as she walked
some called out when she was spotted
her shout name was Lady Dumpster
as she staggered along, she talked
folks tried to help her—she balked

When she was a girl, she was...

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WHICH EDGE DO YOU ALLEGE? 

I never claimed to be your teacher
You want to learn s**t go to your local preacher
But when you enter his sanctuary don’t make any noise
Because he may be having sex...

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Where have all the leaders gone,
those whose words match how they act?
I mourn the death of honesty and sincere respect for fact.
What happened to religion, now it judges and teaches hate?
Jesus, Allah, Buddha nor Moses...

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IT’S ABOUT TWO FLIES
by 
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



In a Garbage Dump Two Flies Met on a Rotting Bun
Suddenly Realized They Were Father and Son
Hadn’t Seen Each Other since Lunch at the Sty
Twas the First Time Sonny...

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He complained that he had no hot water in his home because the water tank was broken.
She told him that her water came from a slough, which was five miles from her home.

He complained that...

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Simplicity in a solution,
                               ...

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Loneliness is the cloak worn on the door
by the wooden porch steps
that hang like shadows from the house that cried
paint flakes drip from the sill of a shattered window
    like falling tears
that...

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I know not
 Who is my father
 When I was only eight years old
 Mother's love also left me alone 
 Still I remember
 Inconsolable face of mother

 I rise early in the morning
 To...

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Heroine flowing in like a landslide
While the rhetoric flows fantastic. 

A garbage dump grows wide on the roadside
But thank my God my straw isn’t plastic. 

He yawns at our rate of youth suicide. 
Though a...

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I was warm and toasty, 
curled up, napping 
in amniotic fluid, 
without a worry 
when suddenly 
this metal thing
came into my room 

poked around 
and pulled me out.
The doctor stabbed me, 
smashed my head,
cut off...

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Am a homeless man,
Whole world is my home,
In street, dump, anywhere,
I sleep wherever I feel;
Seek food from garbage dump,
Rag too I find in that;
For some drives emotions,
And for some lousy devilment;
Some pelt alms,
And some offend...

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At this lonely hillside road
I feel the aroma of nature
from the shading trees at the roadside.

No stench, no garbage dump here
the aroma I felt long ago
today i inhaled deep into my heart.

That old banyan tree...

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