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Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlersGalore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...
with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences close encounters
of masterly baited entrapment
on Facebook Messenger
and most likely...
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Categories:
jest, adventure, age, anger, anti bullying, appreciation, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
jest, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
jest, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
jest, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
jest, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
jest, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth - With New FootnotesGod Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race
from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from...
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Categories:
jest, love, science, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
jest, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Mad Woman WalkWalk see the mad woman a come
Walk a come she just a come
Listen to how she talk she is not one of us
She sound like an aristocrat and a sensational bureaucrat
The idlers screamed from the...
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Categories:
jest, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, community, endurance, holiday, imagery,
Form:
Narrative
The External World of The Internal
“The External World of the Internal”
when the Internal
finally woke up,
it was like all the words
in that book, flew at It
like flaming arrows,
an external barage, a tale,
of trading 10 for 50,
a...
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Categories:
jest, humanity, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Limerick Collaboration-Join In-New AdditionsIf you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.
Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...
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Categories:
jest, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
jest, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
jest, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
A Whistling Girl and a Crowing HenA Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
By Elton Camp
“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city. “We git...
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Categories:
jest, humorous,
Form:
Prose
Afflictions and Perspectivesfoisted upon her was the merry go round crystal chandelier
it stuck in her beautiful mind like a beacon of flaming desire
of clouds fried by a cuckoo with an indestructible socket
her eyes wide upon pupils dilated...
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Categories:
jest, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Every January first of the new yearEvery January first of the new year...
finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...
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Categories:
jest, adventure, age, america, angel, anniversary, celebration, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Dandylion
"Dandylion"
The guy was a
Dandylion
there was
no denying it
full of promises
and making wishes
residing over
this new world
poetically
speaking, he
shone like
the Sun
he sat on his throne
for all to see
the mane man
roaring non-garrulous
declaring
to...
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Categories:
jest, dream, humor, muse, word play,
Form:
Narrative
Christmas Eve In JamaicaI stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...
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Categories:
jest, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
For Josh Q On His Bar Mitzvah1.
Our blessing, our son, our family clown
The cracker of jokes, the soother of strife
Takes it all in, teaches us to slow down
Although he bungee jumped straight into life
Yes, when he’s ready, he can move so...
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Categories:
jest, father son, jewish,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Seance
“The Seance”
It was macabre you see,
we were all summoned,
and therefore found ourselves
in the front parlour of Ballylee;
In our dreams
we thought we were poets
of fabulous notoreity,
the head ghoul set us straight on that.
The planchette...
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Categories:
jest, muse,
Form:
Narrative
My Renegade Sunday School TeacherAunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.
She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving EarthMother
indigenous wisdom choices.
Aunt Mary was a serenely quiet mentor
and suspiciously...
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Categories:
jest, christian, education, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Ledger of Love: PART I
Ledger of Love
In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now a thin whisp, a ghostly jest.
Her gaze averts from her...
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Categories:
jest, confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing, love, marriage, sad
Form:
Narrative
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused AdumbrationsFrom blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized
eye gripping titled
poem already aired a year plus ago,
though revisiting...
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Categories:
jest, absence, adventure, business, endurance, fish, grief, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
I Relished Being Hungry For Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy GrubI relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
whereby the missus didst potchke
created whirling dervish hubbub
after enjoying repast,
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly able, eager, and ready
to soak my ego freezing carcass in...
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Categories:
jest, abuse, adventure, appreciation, autumn, blessing, drink, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
VoicesThe Voice of reason
The Voice on the phone
The Voice of the radio
Voice of the Movies
Voice of the television
The Voice of the news
The Voice of the fad
Voice of the worshiped hero
Voice of the people
Voice of civil...
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Categories:
jest, allegory, allusion, america, analogy, image, metaphor, voice,
Form:
Haiku