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Epigrams V

Epigrams V

Are mayflies missed by mountains? Do stars
applaud the glowworm’s stellar mimicry?
—Michael R. Burch



Teach me to love:
to fly beyond sterile Mars
to percolating Venus. 
—Michael R. Burch



Byron
was not a shy one,
as peacocks run.
—Michael R. Burch

When I visited Lord Byron's residence at Newstead Abbey, there were peacocks running around the grounds, which I thought appropriate. 



Less Heroic Couplets: Unsmiley Simile, or, Down Time
by Michael R. Burch

Quora is down!
I frown:
how long can the universe suffice
without its ad-vice?



"Lu Zhai" ("Deer Park")
by Wang Wei (699-759)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Uninhabited hills ...
except that now and again the silence is broken
by something like the sound of distant voices
as the sun's sinking rays illuminate lichens ...


Swiftly the years mount
by T'ao Ch'ien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Swiftly the years mount, exceeding remembrance. 
Solemn the stillness of this spring morning.
I will clothe myself in my spring attire
then revisit the slopes of the Eastern Hill
where over a mountain stream a mist hovers,
hovers an instant, then scatters.
Scatters with a wind blowing in from the South
as it nuzzles the fields of new corn.



War, the God
by Michael R. Burch

War lifts His massive head and turns...
The world upon its axis spins.
... His head held low from weight of horns,
His hackles high. The sun He scorns
and seeks the rose not, but its thorns.
The sun must set, as night begins,
while, unrepentant of our sins,
we play His game, until He wins.
For War, our God, our bellicose Mars,
still rules our heavens, dominates our stars.



Shotgun Bedding
by Michael R. Burch

A pedestrian pediatrician
set out on a dangerous mission;
though his child bride, Lolita,
was a sweet senorita,
her pa’s shotgun cut off his emissions!

Keywords/Tags: epigram, epigrams, mayfly, mayflies, mountain, mountains, star, stars, stellar, glowworm, firefly, mimic, mimicry, irony, jealousy, judgement,  life, mortality, loss, nature, transience, Quora
Form: Epigram


Premium Member Part-Time Poet

A part-time poet's destined to be plagued by pressure
  The press of time, the pulse of work, vanished years
Barely a moment to reflect, swirling phrases unmeasured
  Envisioning the thrill -- pondering ideas at leisure

The press of time, the pulse of work, vanished years
  Bloody lies my train of thought, derailed once more
Envisioning the thrill -- pondering ideas at leisure
  What wouldn't I give for such unimaginable pleasure

Bloody lies my train of thought, derailed once more
  To start over -- Where was I? -- Cauldrons of frustration
What wouldn't I give for such unimaginable pleasure
  Dream on, part-time poet, of vast unattainable treasure

Comes my annual vacation, free at last from work's shackles
  Alas, stay-cations raise beloved family members' hackles
To start over -- Where was I? -- Cauldrons of frustration
  Barely a moment to reflect, swirling phrases unmeasured

Alas, stay-cations raise beloved family members' hackles
  Wistful aspirations decimated, grim rations of jackals
Barely a moment to reflect, swirling phrases unmeasured
  A part-time poet's destined to be plagued by pressure


                        June 30, 2019
          Entry: Part-time Poet Poetry Contest
                   Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner
Form: Pantoum

Before the Moon

in the chilling crisp night
	with out a stirring trace of breeze
tingling fear of unseen eyes
	as my hackles begin to rise

Ebony skies with bright jewels scattered
	pinpricks of rain bowls that quickly glitter
pale moon like watching eye
	baleful gaze upon me here

whispering sound of cutting air
	so high above and far away
growing louder and drawing near
	I turn my eyes unto the sky

like a racing cloud across the stars
	of sharp lines and angles clear
narrowing straight towards me now
	two points of redness spear my soul

blocking now the light of the moon
	silhouetting a shape of doom
reptilian wings of mighty beats
	seeking its prey within the night

a flash of flames before it flares
	and on cold wind of mighty roar
in fear I tremble cold and weak
	fearing that I be the prey it seeks

across the land in dark of night
	in clusters tremble many sheep
that upon the Dragon does feast
	finding them a tasty treat

mutton wrapped in fleecy white
	a toothsome treat at in the night
glowing eyes seek in the land
	white flashes of the fearful sheep

sharply turning spearing down
	with the roaring of wings it descends
lighting the night with bright flame
	with talons stained with ruby red

with booming flaps it breaks its fall
	grabbing the prey that it did seek
with mighty flaps it again ascends
	winging quickly into the night

struggling in its grasp so tight
	is a maiden in sweater white
‘tis not really the dragons fault
	‘twas seeking the Argyle white

Beneath a Dire Moon

The moon hovers there, shining aloft,
its form the infamous crescent,
its glow so luminous as to reveal the rest of the orb,
oft-hidden when its time in the sky is not nigh.

Underneath, a fog coats the cold ground.
It floats eerily around everything in its path,
twisting here and there, suffusing the darkened morning
with a fell feel, secrets behind every bush and tree.

As my fellows and I trudge past a field to our left,
the mist reveals the obstacles we placed there afore;
in the sun, just part of training, procedure - 
in these cruel environs, an ominous vision.

Barbed wire raises from a fence line
like the hackles of an angry beast;
threatening even we who emplaced it with its edges,
taunting our easily pierced flesh to embrace it.

Bunkers hunker down by the edge of the wood,
barely glimpsed openings once promising solace -
in this haunting setting they appear more as gaping maws,
showing to the world only a presence and visage of hunger.

Meant to hamper the enemy, defend those who built them,
on this macabre morn they serve more to menace their own.
Our bristling band hurries to pass that brooding breadth,
the horned moon vanishing at last from our unsettled sight.

Premium Member Havoc At Halloween

Blackie mounts my broomstick every Halloween
With her silky coat and eyes of emerald green
We’re silhouetted in the moonbeam's gleam
Kitty meows so loudly if ever we are seen
Children point at us and let out a scream

Look at that black cat and the warty old witch
Blackie’s hackles rise, her meow rises in pitch -
I wish my black kitty had got a volume switch
We rise then fall as my broomstick gets a glitch
Suddenly we're both propelled into a watery ditch

Poor kitty's fur’s wet, bracken covers her left eye
We clamber from the water, and I let out a sigh
She meows like a banshee, I know the reason why...
as she's lost our big container of sweet pumpkin pie -
It’s her Halloween treat; I can’t bear hearing her cry!

Her meowing gets so loud soon it reaches a decibel
So I get out my wonky wand and repeat a magic spell
My broom flies out the ditch, the pumpkin pie as well 
We both climb onto the broom and fly off to a motel -
I’m glad we got the pie back, or she'd make my life hell!

Halloween Meow Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke

AWARDED POEM OF THE DAY 24TH OCTOBER 2020

10/23/20
Form: Monorhyme


Pulling the Plug

To honor someone’s talent
While excusing certain views
Which the world may deem offensive
Is the stuff that makes the news.

For a well-endowed museum,
With a Costume Institute,
Planned to showcase a designer
Who’s the face of ill repute.

Known for comments that disparage
People different from his type,
Nonetheless, his output thrives
With many drawn into the hype.

Yet the show for Galliano,
With Ms. Wintour’s staunch support,
Raised the hackles of some donors
And those critics got to thwart

What, to me, was recognition
That should surely be reserved
For designers with both talent
And integrity observed.

Sometimes those with too much power
Make decisions which, I’d bet,
Turn the tide to flow against them,
Though they harbor no regret.
Form: Rhyme

The Rose of Youthful Writing

there is stain
stainless stain
none sees
stigma bin niche 
in the heart of my rose 
the youthful rose

road to road
lane by lane
the fragrance 
comes with virginity
of wile
will-o-the-wisp

the lace of writing
makes the attire
makes the disguise fire
on the Tyre of living gyre
respectively to the pyre
in the bier
not as the dead
but as the withered leaf of winter
in the wisdom of love
in the womb of chaste

heirs on the astray
habeas-corpus
hackles on the verbose anonymity

anopheles drinks
taste blood,
gyves the pathos of beautification
demise crawls the path of sagacity
no enmity
on the road of poetic procession

yet, the youthful rose
hails the decease of blood
in the nerve circulation
and circumcises the head of pen
in time........



-07/01/2020 CTG, BD

Premium Member GRANNYS SPOOKY HOUSE

Granny`s spooky house
My granny has a spooky house she has a spiders web
She keeps it in her room at night just above my bed.

I cannot take my eyes of it however hard I try
As it unwraps its prey from its shiny web and slowly eats a fly.

The spiders black and hairy with long and skinny legs
I’m sure when I fall asleep at night it crawls about my head.

She also has a cauldron it’s filled with poisonous gloop
But she says it`s for tomorrow as she’s making homemade soup.

I go to bed quite early but Granny stays up late
She`s downstairs eating fruitcake it`s like beasties on her plate.


Just as it turns midnight her cat comes to the room
It snuggles in the corner and sleeps on granny`s broom.

It` s coat is black and shiny its eyes are big and green
It`s claws are sharp and pointy the biggest that I've seen.

Then it starts to hiss and spit and getting up its hackles
And Granny starts to laugh at it just like a witches cackle.

Now she takes its collar of, it wears a silver bell
Then it falls asleep real quick just like she cast a spell.

My granny wears a pointed cap when she goes to bed
It looks just like a witches hat sitting on her head.

Her gown looks like a witches cloak when she hangs it up
And then she takes her teeth out and puts them in a cup.

And when the house is quiet and everyone`s asleep
The doors they start to crackle and the floors begin to creek.

The windows really draughty and the heating pipes are knocking
And the squeaky stairs out in the hall sounds just like someone talking.

There`s footsteps in the attic granny says it`s just a mouse
It`s really hard to sleep at night in granny`s spooky house.

But when I wake up in the morning and the sun is shining bright
I open up the curtains to let in all the light.

The cat is in the garden the spiders in its web
The doors don’t squeak and the floors don’t creek
And I`m snuggled up in bed.

Granny`s in the kitchen and I cannot hear the mouse
It`s in the attic sleeping in granny`s spooky house
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ode to Kitty

Dear Kitty, today, I sing your everlasting praise,
I, your humble Frisky, dog next door,
bark a heartfelt word and phrase,
though, both of us are alive no more,
and, though my hackles, you did raise
when you walked upon the wall
dividing our two yards.
To eat you, I tried hard,
but I could only jump so high, and never did you fall. 

Dear Kitty, it's heaven now where we two play
as we while away each blessed day, 
where up here, too, a wall divider,
where you may tease and prance.
as I bark, "I want my teeth inside her,
if she'd just give me a chance".
There is no other cat than thee,
for me to chase, I truly say,
to Kitty, the cat that won't ever fall, for all eternity.
Form: Ode

The Standup Comic


I am pretty certain

What you will find

With a sneaky cheeky peek 

Behind the velvet curtain


See..one of a kind

Stand Up hierachy

For very few shekels

Sarky then snarky malarkey

Sworn scorn of merry heckles


But shorn of those hackles

Torn free from those shackles

The dawn of hee-hee cackles


If they're a chronic

Stand Up Comic

No one applauds

Dreads hordes of frauds

Who tread ironic boards


A skit to be a hit

Must pit your wit

Acerbic gambit

Caustic flit

Twit or git

Design a fine punchline

Yep..the funny bit


Scores on the doors

Gaping jaws and guffaws 

Means more encores


If they don't shirk

Perk of their work

Can air a quirk

Share & make them smirk

With flair or devil maycare

The crowd revel...go beserk


Seriously sardonic

Scheming bitter of gin

Deliriously laconic

Big beaming grin

Gleaming glitter of tonic


Tears now are streaming

Girth of the mirth

Cheers from their peers

Just the ticket for the critic

What's it worth?


Priceless..to see an iconic 

Yet down to earth

Stand Up Comic

On their home turf

Always pick it..

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