Long Hot under the collar Poems

Poems for Poets X
Poems about Poets X



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Woolf

Weigh me down with stones ...
   fill all the pockets of my gown ...
      I’m going down,
...

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I am going to write a funny poem
Why does life have tomorrow?
Because if it doesn't 
Wouldn't you have it today?
Far near
How far is far
And how near is near?
Close enough to me
You are too close
What do...

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I didn’t tell them, it had started as a joke
When I caught two more that’s when they started to croak
They checked my rig to make sure that theirs was the same
Took my spot in boat,...

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Count your blessings you're still here it's2018 another wondrous year. 2017 has passed us by ain't it truly funny how time can really fly.

Was 2017 a scream or just routine. Did it make you hoot...

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A metaphorical allegory
Real life-or a war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to...

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A metaphorical allegory
A real life war story
The first one was to end them all
So they called it great
The next saw evil rise and fall 
One's hate had sealed his fate 

One Korea to Saigon
Russia to...

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Intoxicated by the vast open sea
Her music and fragrance
Let me entice you with my words sticky
Don’t get hot under the collar
For it is nothing but words
Simple words yet powerful
That is, if you allow yourself to...

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it was hot
makes you feel spent just breathin'
but she was comfortable as judas in hades
just like ice cool in the shade
you shout and dance about with all this jealousy
you are electric hot under the collar
but...

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We’re writing hieroglyphics for the next civilization to decipher
Armageddon is brewed in the lab for children like us born in petri-dishes
Raised like crops plugged amid weeds
We downgrade to something less than human
The weather forecast is...

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I'm lost inside your world...
       Hang on every word...
       A love I can't afford...
       I breaks my...

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Here are some fun things that happened
On that classic Candid Camera show
A man walked backwards on a sidewalk
People copied him, wouldn't you know?

A man wearing only tighty whiteys
Asked the hotel clerk for a room
A street...

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She's thwarted his advances for bluer skies 

cat chasing her tail
to poking at nothing there
why is this such a fail
retrieving her blank stare

he tries again, his paws
grasping thin air
his teeth into her jaw
for answers to...

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Wearing your ego in that ride as you go
A new fragrance to hide an old flaw 
A cool flow that’s hot under the collar
In that overdue ostentation soon to follow

Wearing labels you are labelled like...

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I could kill you right now
but what would that fix
any way I'm too tiered 
to hand out some 'licks'
Test me again
on some other occasion
and I'll cause more drama
than an 'Alien' invasion

Disrespect me

Calling me names
Speaking in...

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Ronnie was born on October the thirteen.
Ozzfest was here on his first birthday.
Next year he will be twelve years old.
Nearly a teenager he will be.
Inch by inch he is growing up.
Every year he reminds me...

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I LOOKED AT HER
IN THEM TIGHT FITTEN' JEANS
LIKE WHAT I SAW
SHE WANTED TO BE SEEN
SUMBODY KNEADIN LOVE
WOULD CURSE OR SNEAR
TURN ROUND TO WATCH HER
AND COMPLIMENT FROM THE REAR
THEY MY SONG IS DIVISIVE
SUM SAY IT'S DEFINED
IT...

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