Long Grease Poems
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Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
grease, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 2 of 2Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the soup.
My wife and I were...
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Categories:
grease, car,
Form:
Narrative
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
grease, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
ProofWe are the days that we’ve become.
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings,
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings.
Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...
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Categories:
grease, allegory, america, computer, crazy, extended metaphor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a SparrowPart I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
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Categories:
grease, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to perfection...
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Categories:
grease, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Resurrected HeroeRESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you.
No body cares...what you goes through;
When you succeed,...
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Categories:
grease, beautiful, beauty, hero,
Form:
Lyric
The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 1 of 2This is the 1st half of a pretty long piece, the 2nd half, as usual, is @ "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the Soup...
OK everybody…could I please have your attention?
I’ve got some real important...
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Categories:
grease, car,
Form:
Rhyme
The Grim ReaperTHE GRIM REAPER (JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE)
The Grim Reaper; again awakens from another well-earned day of sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave, so deep
His cloak and scythe;...
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Categories:
grease, death, humorous, tribute, write,
Form:
Epic
When We Were YoungWhen We Were Young
He left for work each morning,
Wearing steel-toed boots and a tin hat.
He took long strides that were three times
The length of mine.
In one hand he carried a lunch pail and...
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Categories:
grease, childhood, family,
Form:
Free verse
Jack the RipperI Jumped up suddenly out of my bed
With Jack the ripper spinning in my head
And the word cabinet kept floating in my bed
I had a very serious message to deliver
But I don't know who to...
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Categories:
grease, america, angel, beautiful, culture, england, international, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye To HomeSand in my lungs and in every nook and cranny possible, nothing out here not even a simple bush or tree. Everything is dead and dry as a bone. My own skin holds no life,...
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Categories:
grease, art, me, woman, old, me, old,
Form:
Epic
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
grease, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky ManagementI posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management
Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...
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Categories:
grease, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Land Is a LoomLand Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
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Categories:
grease, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Decaying As I Wander On His RoadGot caught in a shimmering, glimmering summer haze
Gone through anxiety and hallucinations — hate this phase
Don’t discard me when I’m trekking this road
This road of God’s abode…I admire and abide in it — He’s my...
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Categories:
grease, angst, anxiety, hope, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...
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Categories:
grease, mythology,
Form:
Prose
5 Single WordsThere is a poem I wrote several years ago that several people have written me saying how it helped them decide not to take their own life. Several people have asked me "How can you...
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Categories:
grease, inspiration, strength, summer,
Form:
Free verse
When You Wear a Dirty ShirtWhen you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or that you're all three of those,
And then they throw in...
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Categories:
grease, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Story About a Tin-BoyA long, long time ago, there lived a family of tin-beings,
in an underground basement in a garage. Oil and grease
were their favorite delicacy. Mechanics always wondered
where their oil and grease vanished to.
One night, one of...
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Categories:
grease, fantasy, children, kids, hilarious, imagery, magic, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Damn Girl - a SongChorus 1:
Damn girl,
If you need some grease,
Why can't you just
Squeak a little,
Squeak a little? (1)
Take time,
Let the voices cease,
Your life adjust,
Breathe a little,
Breathe a little!
Squeaky wheel will always get the grease they say,
Never has...
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Categories:
grease, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Traveling Death SalesmanI can't sleep.
Or, I can
and did
for three hours
but I continue waking
into a Stephen King nightmare
too real to ignore
because I feel isolated
in this quagmire
of hopeless history.
In this my collective nightmare,
President Trump goes to Saudi Arabia
like Mr....
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Categories:
grease, depression, dream, fear, health, military, night, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Elephants LiveAnd then the Head Elephant rose from the dead
Surprising and shocking everyone
All cheered, “He is alive!” they shouted
“He lives!”
The opposition wrung their hands,
Beads of sweat poured from their brows.
They had been so sure,...
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Categories:
grease, america, history, hope, loss, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Warfare of the WeakCasualties of the aftermath...A Terrorist message, "Not in words"
We 'will' be continually eliminated. Humans nature; Consistent
Disturbs!
Why are we a target? Propaganda...Can deceive
What is it, they 'really' want?...
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Categories:
grease, allusion, america, humanity, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Muppets In the Soup - Join InWrite a limerick of your own about a Muppet.
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me,
and I find it appropriate, I'll add it on. ;-)
Sesame Street's Count von...
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Categories:
grease, fun,
Form:
Limerick