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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:
lieu, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
lieu, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
lieu, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
lieu, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
lieu, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
lieu, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
lieu, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
lieu, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IvPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers IV
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are your tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is your concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm...
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Categories:
lieu, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
lieu, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
lieu, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
lieu, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
lieu, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
lieu, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
lieu, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Poets IPoems about Poets I
The Wonder Boys
by Michael R. Burch
for Leslie Mellichamp
The stars were always there, too-bright cliches:
scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew
as baffled poets winged keyed kites—amazed,
in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ...
but...
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Categories:
lieu, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
I Could Not Do It BeforeI Could Not Do It Before
By Dr. Tina Medina
I could not do it before
I dare not shut the door
My heart yearned for something more
I loved you to the core
Even though I did not keep...
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Categories:
lieu, adventure, betrayal, conflict, inspirational, integrity, motivation, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo NoonuccalLa Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan
Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...
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Categories:
lieu, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In Our TownIn my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses
incarnated all the green organic dreams
of the food righteousness brigade,
Eternal EarthDay worshipers
began pilgrimages with gardeners
and pet-owners
and parents,
to establish...
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Categories:
lieu, community, culture, environment, health, political, poverty, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Offer To Entertain -- 1995“Wha’da-ya’ s’pose he’s thinkin’ about,” I heard a nurse inquire, “he sits there almost every day just gazin’ at the pond?”
“Hard to say,” a laundry gal replied, “but chances are...if you could, somehow, read his...
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Categories:
lieu, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
lieu, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Phantoms Women and LovePhantoms
Phantoms, nightly steeds, flared nostrils all aflame
with their steely hooves thundering on my brain, as they came,
these apparitions shrouded in blackness, to carry me off, conscious,
into the darkness, into the mystery of...
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Categories:
lieu, wisdom, women,
Form:
Free verse
No Brave New World
In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats,
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes,
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness
wronged-vaped, winged
to the wilderness by their covens,...
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Categories:
lieu, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Les Protecteurs - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Protectors By T WignesanLes Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan
(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she said - without mincing words – her lines were sheer...
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Categories:
lieu, bullying, character, conflict, culture, discrimination, humanity, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
For Sunshine SmileFOR SUNSHINE SMILE
Feelings I've always kept inside myself and never have written down before
Offering to you sweet lady from my heart to your great poetic words quite more
Remembering all those times I felt like you...
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Categories:
lieu, beautiful, friend, inspiration, thanks,
Form:
Acrostic