Long Libel Poems
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EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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libel, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
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Epigram
Various HeresiesIf God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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libel, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
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Verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
libel, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
libel, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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libel, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
libel, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
libel, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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libel, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
EnoughEnough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
libel, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IvJuvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...
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libel, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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libel, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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libel, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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libel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
I Barely Know These PeopleWe carry our phones now.
We call them I-phones.
Not sure if this is because we are Internet-aware
Or simply I’s instead of We’s now.
It’s time to exchange mine for a newer model;
Happens every two years.
How many contacts...
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Categories:
libel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Narrative
The People From Those Xxxx-Hole CountriesThe People from Those ****-Hole Countries
The people from “those” ****-Hole countries, eh??
Really?? Really?? You don’t say?? I didn’t know that!!
This is a recent stream of consciousness comment, which
constitutes a new low in the American...
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Categories:
libel, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, political, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 11Various Heresies 11
The beauty of the flower fades,
its petals wither to charades...
—Michael R. Burch
the U-turn poem
by michael r. burch
Life so defaulty,
Life so unfair,
why do wee prize U,
what do U care?
LORD who lets unborns
drown in a...
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Categories:
libel, allah, america, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
If They So Persecuted Me John 15:20 Part Two"If they so persecuted me they will also persecute you..."John 15:20
Q: If they call Donald Trump and his followers fascists and extremists
for being in the way of their Marxist Liberal New World Order what will
they...
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Categories:
libel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Victims of the Cancel Culture Part OneI watched in horror while a concerned father was apprehended for objecting to a male student entering into a girls restroom. At two different schools and raping two girls. One father was unfairly and...
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Categories:
libel, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hell No I Don'T Wanna Go To HellThis sinner here --Michelle--
learned at St. Peter Chanel
there's no point to rebel
Life without God is Hell
Not just a state of mind
also an afterlife confined
to weep, & teeth-grind
all happiness -- behind
It would NOT be fun--
not "a...
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Categories:
libel, desire, forgiveness, future, heaven, prayer, sweet love,
Form:
Monorhyme
Vanity By the WaysideI’ve often mentioned Hilly in the poems that I have written,
and I’ve often said that Hilly with a brewer’s surely smitten,
so you’re libel now to see him in the state that I call ‘blotto’
but today...
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Categories:
libel, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Reaney's LamborghiniSo slick and sexy. Purred past Temple Bar.
That throaty engine advertising punch.
All legal London, strolling out for lunch,
with turning heads declared, “Now that’s a car!”
So many barristers are – if not losers,
low earners...
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Categories:
libel, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Suicide of An IdolA woman of mystery
Dressed in red
The blood of jealous women's misery
Her mouth is discretionary
Her words planned perfectly
Others fix their mouths loosely
But with her details, she's choosey
She only said
What she wants spread
Her stories are wildfire
The gossip...
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Categories:
libel, anti bullying, betrayal, depression, hurt, loneliness, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Indices of a LoonGOODLUCK
Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll,
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes)
On congruent grounds of pain we forced him, though we hated his coterie....
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Categories:
libel, corruption, crazy, culture, heartbroken, history, leadership, parody,
Form:
Alliteration
Lying To the One You Lovethey say (whoever the **** “they”
are) that “honesty is the best policy” &
presumably, one assumes (though
we should never assume, so sayeth
the 7th grade math teachers of the world
---because “assuming makes an ass out
of you &...
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Categories:
libel, life, world, may, , 7th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The History of the FutureThere’s certainly an irony that’s found in thoughts of ‘history’
However one may feel about the war between the sexes,
And would not ‘herstory,’ be just as sexist for example?
Is ‘history’ itself a ploy to bring some...
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Categories:
libel, history,
Form:
Rhyme