Long Lilliput Poems

Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...

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Happily Never After (the Second Curse of the Horny Toad)
by Michael R. Burch

He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled in...

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Happily Never After: the Second Curse of the Horny Toad
by Michael R. Burch
 
He did not think of love of Her at all
frog-plangent nights, as moons engoldened roads
through crumbling stonewalled provinces, where toads
(nee princes) ruled...

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They are such  tiny people,
slipping in your blood stream
unperceived as you, crusading, 
ride the clouds and seas
exposing unseen cavities 
within the noble paragraphs our children read,
or did upon the times of innocence.
Semites all, they...

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It was a dark and stormy night, or so the story goes
Another of those wondrous tales to keep us on our toes
Like looking glass and wonderland, grim witches and their spells
Peter Pan and his lost...

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(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "eppur si muove"...

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Laughing, dancing, having the time of her life,
Faerie Fun went from mushroom house to toadstool cottage,
Spreading joy,
Playing with everyone
In a kind and pleasant way.
There was going to be no sadness
In Faerie Forest today if she...

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The Soul Of Beauty

It was night & I turned off the light,
I was off to bed & leaned my head.

I heared a knocking sound,	
It made me to look around.

Hey,that's from the l'le jewellery kit,
which drove...

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After the party,
I’ve found myself on a tropical island 
Just like how Gulliver was taken to the island, Lilliput. 
I haven’t either heard or visited that island.
A fantasy world with
Fathomless valleys, lush green meadows
Transparent water...

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Nigeria,my country,
I remember you with mixed feelings
A great contraption
A mere geographical expression.

You have never been a nation!
A mere colonial creation
A time bomb awaiting explosion

You were marked for greatness
Epitome of God's kindness
But shying away from your...

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Balloon, balloon, so high in the air,
Its destination I know not where, 
Its point of departure, that is too 
A mystery in the sky of blue. 

I too wonder, wonder, why oh why
This bright drifter...

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Rid me of this damn corn,
the progeny of past laquered 
loves, its to, its fro, they lap 
like cats at milk, destroying all

Returning then to orange groves
and furnace fire/sing to me the 
song of could...

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taking a flyer 
but
why should we bother
to try a
new thing?

History tells and
even with bells on
it yells out a lie

unclean
unclean
have you seen 
how unclean?

Sin is the thing we win when we sin
and we lose just the...

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A courier of peace; a coupon of hope
Your cost, though, I have been made alien,
Your fruitfulness I heartily grope.
But the lashed back in servitude asks, “WHEN”?
A befitting vestment on servitude
A plague in the metropolis,
Like the...

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