Long Omnivorous Poems

Family Poems

Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch

There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."

So more than "much, " much more than...

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Poems about Children


The Desk
by Michael R. Burch

for Jeremy

There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...

He...

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Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II



All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch

for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.

Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
you are

somehow more near

and remind me that,
once, upon a star,
you...

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Facial Recognition Blues

Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram 
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innocent waiting for an answer from an Annogram

Images of scientific...

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Under the depths below the deep 
     of this Atlantic Ocean,
live the lobsters that crawl and creep
     with an articulated motion.

They thrive on the ocean’s sea floor,
...

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Children's Poems VII

These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. 



Sailing to My Grandfather, for George Hurt
by Michael R. Burch

This distance between us
—this vast sea
of...

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when Animal Farm is not a feeding manual

and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight

Dali’s time piece warps under face value

and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest


beneath the cover of cotton candy clouds

she relieves herself into Magritte’s...

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I'm of God,you too are of God;
We belong to the same house under one father,
Who gave us a breath that makes us living.
My brother,of fine social morals,of the bush;
I come in peace,to clear the air;
Of...

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Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate

palates sprinkled (of course
while mouths full with borscht,
and eyes wide shut)
with garbled...

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What?
I hope you are not serious, my fellow mortal!
Not serious when you suggest that we should
Eliminate death.

How could we?

This is preposterous!

But if you are serious, tell me how could we ever
Exist without the Lord of...

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He is legend, folklore and for some reality,
an ape-hominid-like creature of many names;
he is Big Foot, Sasquatch, Yeti or wild man,
science discounts his existence, many believe,
    six to ten feet tall,
 ...

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"If I kill a wicked person, a liar or Satan
Will I have ever peace or world be peaceful forever?"
                ...

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I have no torment, no pain-difficulty
I am not the seller of sorrowful key
Stellar of the far friends I am
New sky in my entrepreneur jam

Being human I can feel meticulously
the pains of dying fishes in my...

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The province of delayed gratification
Poetry is dead.

There is now no appetite for deep reflection
In this far from limpid pool.
Abhorrent is meditation
To  the present lords of all misrule.
Carpe diem once was for the nonce
Its writ...

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Voracious Animals

Animals in nature are categorized  by their feeding  habits... 
For the ferocious meat eaters, they are by nature carnivorous...
Their hapless preys, they are torn to pieces, gnawed and chewed....
There there are the...

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It's wonderful~how some women's 
shoes are delightful and feminine.
Yet women dress more and more
like men each day.
It's very sad in the USA, to watch
femininity quickly pass way.

Why wear pretty underwear inside
while dressing Paul Bunyan on...

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Queer, we search animal in human 
human too is animal, why not search animal in animal ? 

Omnipresent Fox
omnivorous, cunning, trickster, 
not domesticated, centre of many folklore 
human variety lay trap with glib talk, loot...

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Out of the bowels of the apartment come 
the trivia of the past.

Old receipts pushed to the backs of drawers,
faintly accusatory, 
records of money and passions spent;  
Yellowed paperbacks made unseen 
when new ones...

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Now,
I was walking, all alone
It is better for me, I think so.
Better to think, to ponder
Could be an effort, in vain
Could be, I do not know.

Sometimes,
I do not believe myself
I am not at ease with...

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Act Three - the nap 

Naptime was uneventful.  The girls didn’t show up.  The dog snores.  He drools.  The pillowcase is a brownish, water stained, Picasso-esque masterpiece.

Act Four - table for...

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Your trademark omnivorous stunts 
Glean clean what minute remnants
Menaced graces do sparingly yield;
And take back reliefs heavens field. 

Inclement rob your ravenous fangs;
Mowing to naught crumbs of bread
That divine hand her children gives,
Thieving sure bits...

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Bird with noisy calls,                               ...

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A child I do not know his citizenship
travels nations rummaging, rampaging
he has no origin but  has relatives
but the child knows not how to share

Omnivorous, carnivorous and ruminant
his teeth grinds anything; canal receives all 
At...

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Howling and hooting sets the tone for tonight
Alabaster skin shows a child is full of fright
Lover’s lane is as creepy as artery’s spackle.
Laughter distorted as a witch’s cackle.
Omnivorous owls fleeing from Frankenstein
Werewolves and skeletons showing...

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WEASEL

Tiny little weasel,
Sneaking `round the house,
Searching for a midnight snack,
A chick, a kit or mouse.

Crafty little rascal,
Scurries here and there,
Must find enough to feed the brood,
A bird, a pup or hare.

Nocturnal little scavenger,
Omnivorous opportunist,
Relentless once...

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