Long Hamsters Poems

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by Michael R. Burch

See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...

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I was in third grade when I heard a tale,                         ...

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Our country is full of hypocrites 
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything 
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change 
towards liberal law in our downfall
 
Unto our sovereignty...

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is everyone from Barking  Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...

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Twenty-six letters in the alphabet:
Vowels and consonants be soldiers to defend my message

I'm like a twenty-five cent coin rolling on a parking lot;
destined for the machine or the storm drain?

Twenty-fours in a day, but all...

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And one day when the world has noting to show
All the plants died and the oceans has dried up
The memory of animals ever existed would have been faded by far
Cats and dogs, pigs and cows,...

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He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought to you by your friendly-facade-keepers:
the politicians pussyfooting on a pedestal
built...

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Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal

Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can be
With running mouth and wheel to match
They are a sight...

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Everyone wants free help from that Computer expert, Hubby of mine.
They want to know his computer secrets, on what he does, each time.
So let me give you some hints, for he’s brilliant, in what he...

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Everyone wants free help from that Computer expert, Hubby of mine.
They want to know his computer secrets, on what he does, each time.
So let me give you some hints, for he’s brilliant, in what he...

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imagined by others,
s/he is approached as the
perfect candidate,
s/he is that last 
perfect
puzzle
piece,
which will make the whole
monstrosity,
complete &
not a shred of talent matters,
not a shred of ambition is
needed,
not a shred of ideals, not a
shred of intelligence,...

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learned nothing from the past
by faces drawn in a smile
we're spinning over it like on a carousel
and again, each time it makes us vomit, we remain stunned

we're leisurely starting to resemble like hamsters
cramming into our...

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Enabled by God, the Author and Exemplar of giving
they exercise granting deeds of generous thriving…

With sincere gratitude, we commend them midst bliss:
foremost are parents showering unconditional love from hearts abyss…

brother and sisters, great siblings for...

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Harry the Hamster
   was a cute little pet
'till the day that
   into a pot he did get

Not a pot of soup, mind you
   nor a pot of beef stew
What...

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A tire gets stuck in the mud,
the tread gets filled with soggy earth.
It may form a perfect circle, yes,
spinning in place for some time
and smoothing over into slick surface,
and for where it’s at, it’s what’s...

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Jessica Lynn, this name we sat and often wondered upon to which we should give you. 
Its status of great popularity, Adding my own mothers name of venue. 
Your day of birth had come with...

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Adopted animals love their humans; 
show it in many ways.  
The tiniest pet, 
revels in the harmony of its time, 
with family.

Dinky was a special hamster; 
she lived a year beyond the normal life...

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High is the humidity,
Unpredictable like the economy.
I watch the once grassland begone into the tummies of the rigid structures.
Waiting for the rain.
The world is quite fast
Not wanting to take a rest.

They said there would be...

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When the bullet hits the bone and you're left all alone...born to ramble and bound to roam
when nowhere is your home...under the radar and over the rainbow
Like a thought in a galaxy i'm gone...like spiders...

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This is my story, my telling.
It was a Monday morning
in a time that never existed.
In a past that was fictional
until it was revealed as a plot
writing by a man-made ghost-writer,
nevertheless it became this yesterday,
this legend...

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A packet of seeds I got in the mail
from China it said. Well, isn’t that swell?

Having nothing to do – thought I’d plant them for fun,
so I watered them daily beneath summer’s sun.

Next thing I...

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 The gift of friendship arises,to be built on step by step
                     the good feelings...

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When I sit down to write poetry,
Or maybe a short story or two.
The page is blank, what to write,
At that moment I haven't a clue.
I write a few lines delete the lot
It all sounds contrite,...

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Sonnet: Duet (II)
by Michael R. Burch 
 
If love is just an impulse meant to bring
two tiny hearts together, skittering
like hamsters from their Quonsets late at night
in search of lust’s productive exercise . . .
...

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Once there was a boy who loved animals,
every kind of animal,
it didn't matter; he loved them all!
He had rabbits, pigeons, hamsters, and a raccoon.

The boy kept them well-fed,
cleaned their cages every day
and was sure they...

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