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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: giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form: Limerick



Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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Categories: parody, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form: Free verse
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
 After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...

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Categories: funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Haunting Wooded Tale
,It's like some long lost fairy tale 
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.

I chose to take a country road 
I do from time to time
To...

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Categories: parody, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house, 
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.

I rose at the...

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Categories: parody, christmas,
Form: Narrative



A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.               
It is almost as if the drab 
Streets were strewn...

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Categories: parody, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Five


Have you heard about the bespectacled man who wore his glasses to bed?
Because when he awoke mornings his dreams were all blurry in his head.
And what about...

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Categories: parody, humanity, men,
Form: Lay
Premium Member The Jack of Hearts
                                  ...

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Categories: parody, song,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Lost Grinch Carols - Christmas Parody
This selection of Christmas carols, in themselves, has little value as songs or poems.  Their importance lies chiefly as a historical footnote, as some scholars believe they may have been works written by history’s...

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Categories: parody, christmas, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Knitted You a Scarf
t         e         t        e   
     ...

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Categories: french, humor, humorous, imagination, light, money, parody,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas, parody,
Form: Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...

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Categories: corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.

I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...

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Categories: caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Stories of Grace and Pathology
I hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...

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Categories: parody, blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form: Prose Poetry
Words and Poetry
About Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell

Words not to use in poems

In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parody, education, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
The Incumbent
THE INCUMBENT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I am sick and tired of hearing the same old line
My elected representative says every things fine
He just does not represent the people I know
He’s been there forever its time for him...

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Categories: corruption, culture, introspection, irony, parody, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet

Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way

They were yukking it up,
talking clown...

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Categories: fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Upon a dark and stormy night
Upon a dark and stormy night...

as jagged bolts of lightning
tore thru the the midnight clear
and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds
(analogous to jumping Jack flash),
and ear splitting thunder crackled
testing the threshold of tolerance
zombies of Sugar...

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Categories: absence, america, animal, character, earth, january, parody,
Form: Free verse
Letter To Mama
*LETTER TO  MAMA*

Iye omo to r'ewa 
Iya ni iya mi owon
I know you wonder if your  prayers don't ascend to heavens
You keep asking if the promises won't come true
You're beginning to doubt the...

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Categories: parody, home, journey, missing you, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3
“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...

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Categories: parody, mythology,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ivory
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop...

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Categories: parody, appreciation, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can You P an AI Robot Off - Bot meets feisty lady
Can You P an AI Robot Off – Bot meets feisty lady
 
The great AI debate video – A humorous parody on AI and AI Robots versus humans. 
Watch to the end for the final...

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Categories: dance, humorous, parody,
Form: Prose Poetry
You'Re a Monster, Donny Dump
Sung to, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, (extended version).
KP

You’re a monster, Donny Dump.
Some biiig-time twiiisted clooown.
To no end, I could deride you,
are no depths you didn’t fall to,
no ineptness could elude you,
the bottom-feeders they...

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© Ken Page  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: america, celebrity, fun, humor, parody, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Know Why the Moon Smiles
I Love Cotton Candy,
Flowers Still In The Ground,
A Cricket That Makes No Sound,

I Love Clouds That Draw Pictures For Me,
Winds That Blow My Wishes,
A Hand That Holds Hope,

I Love Music To My Ears,
The Way Salt...

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Categories: parody, cheer up, feelings, happy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Dem New Publicans

Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray

Happy daze are here again!
Dem New Publicans bray 
dey be da common people’s friend

But...

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Categories: parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Narrative

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