Long Mockingbird Poems
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Doggerel I
Doggerel 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:
mockingbird, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
mockingbird, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Limericks
Limericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
mockingbird, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
mockingbird, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
mockingbird, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
mockingbird, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
mockingbird, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VII
These are early poems I wrote as a boy and as a teenager.
The Leveler
by Michael R. Burch
The nature of Nature
is bitter survival
from Winter’s bleak fury
till Spring’s brief revival.
The weak implore Fate;
bold men...
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Categories:
mockingbird, boy, child, childhood, fear, high school, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
mockingbird, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
mockingbird, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds of the day"
Virtues are...
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Categories:
mockingbird, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Night Club
For years I was an aspiring singer, performing in trendy nightspots,
And I sang my heart out each evening, in all of the local hotspots.
Among the enthusiastic locals, at long last I'd made myself a name,
As...
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Categories:
mockingbird, bird, career, fantasy, nature, night, rose, song,
Form:
Couplet
Freak Accident Prone
I was a diligent safety engineer, modifying the hazardous work practices,
Like the thrilling festive celebrations, when you open up pretty packages!
I took my work very seriously, and my motto had long been safety first,
Like waiting...
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Categories:
mockingbird, blessing, confidence, dedication, faith, fantasy, people, work,
Form:
Couplet
How Jay-Bird Got His Name
Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things went down.
See, James was a good boy; he did his...
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Categories:
mockingbird, boy,
Form:
Ballad
To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes
To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and evil can coexist within a particular...
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Categories:
mockingbird, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LISA ANN CARNES UNSOLVED MURDER
DEEP SADNESS REMEMERING LISA WALKING INTO THE ARCADE LOOKING FOR CIRO SHE WAS FURIOUS WAITING IN A TRUCK I ASKED DID SHE WANT TO LEAVE A MESSAGE JUST TELL HIM LISA CIRO CAME IN I...
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Categories:
mockingbird, allah,
Form:
Naat
A Child's Day With Nature In the Nearby Woods, Tenth Poet In My Poet Dedication Series Frank Stanton
~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ...
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Categories:
mockingbird, appreciation, art, dedication, nature, poetry, poets, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem
Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed courtesy scholar
really...a boot nuttin
butta an overrated allay
zee good for...
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Categories:
mockingbird, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation, autumn, break
Form:
Rhyme
Just Stay
Give me a break
For my own sake
I adore the time we spent
You made my heart less bent
Yes indeed...oh, yes indeed..
I am the tiger without his feed
Hope you know that I must vent
Found myself unable to...
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Categories:
mockingbird, angst, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
In My Life - Quit Whistling the Blues, You Mockingbird
I’ll love you, even if you have strayed into the
darkness
Stop whistling the blues, you mockingbird – whistle with
your might your marvelous tunes of accord and faithfulness!
I love you from the bottom of the...
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Categories:
mockingbird, anger, angst, bird, blue, confusion, freedom, uplifting,
Form:
Lyric
Don'T Leave Me Again
Don't know where to start nor how to explain
She was in essence of Juliet, the sun
She was the wife of Atlas, the second holder of the world
my world...
It's too painful to think about
yet it doesn't...
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Categories:
mockingbird, cry, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Clyde Lied
These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
“When again, gentle bride?”
“Nevermore!” bright-eyed Raven replied.
The...
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Categories:
mockingbird, animal, desire, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, wedding,
Form:
Limerick
Pointed Art
Pointed Art
Michael R. Burch
The point of art is that
there is no point.
A grinning, quick-dissolving cat
from Cheshire
must have told you that.
The point of art is this—
the hiss
of Cupid’s bright bolt, should it miss,
is bliss
compared to Truth’s...
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Categories:
mockingbird, art, death, life, nature, poetry, poets, time,
Form:
Verse
Questions In a Bookstore
I love working in a bookstore…being surrounded by the diversity of books is sweet…but I also love the diversity of the people, in the bookstore, whom I meet.
People from all across the world walk in...
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Categories:
mockingbird, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Bad Poetry
I've spent so much time trying to write a good poem, that I've ignored the possibility of
BAD POETRY.
Bad poetry,
the soul speaks in cat-whispers,
I meow one back,
The garden bleeds living colour,
I sprout something too, words,
and if...
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Categories:
mockingbird, on writing and words, school, me, lost,
Form:
I do not know?