Long Piped Poems
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Doggerel Ii
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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Categories:
piped, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I
by T. Wignesan
(Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west coast of...
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Categories:
piped, death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LA Sewers
When I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
piped, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
querulous
( A university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to explain last night's...
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Categories:
piped, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor, music, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter Semester
The reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
...
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Categories:
piped, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Bad Day At the Rochester Fair
It was an early fall day, some decades ago,
When three of my boys were still young.
Looking forward that year to the Rochester Fair,
An event that was always good fun.
A promise from me I would...
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Categories:
piped, angst, fun, humorous, kid, september,
Form:
Narrative
Pine sap pipe
In the deep spiked pine forests
On a walk you forgot you took
Snow up your knees
Twenty feet away
An enormous old house
Not abandoned, smoke from the chimney
Large windows, dark wood walls
A forest castle here for you
To explore...
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Categories:
piped, 12th grade, flying, house,
Form:
Free verse
I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.
How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit b44 felt and damn the torpedoes
(originated from a quote
attributed to...
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Categories:
piped, cool, environment, humorous, june, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Pied Piper From New York City - Part Two
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part Two
This is quite despicable and very inappropriate for someone holding the
“Highest Office in Our Land.” The Pied Piper hides his treachery by
Wrapping himself in the...
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Categories:
piped, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Fashion Modeling With An Eye On Footballers - Xxvii
Unquotable quotes: Fashion modeling with an eye on footballers – XXVII
Isn’t “haute couture” like “cordon bleu cuisine”? Both equally edible? You still have to pull the shrimp scales apart to get at the meat.
What do...
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Categories:
piped, allegory, beautiful, fashion, football, humorous, soccer,
Form:
Epigram
MY Capt'n
TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All stand 'tis proper thine talents measure
Skills they'd...
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Categories:
piped, appreciation, character, destiny, father son, friendship, growing
Form:
Chant Royal
The Night Soil Man - Part One
The Night Soil Man
I
Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
...
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Categories:
piped, abuse, discrimination, night, racism, rights, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iii
LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE III
The Humpback
by Michael R. Burch
The humpback is a gullet
equipped with snarky fins.
It has a winning smile:
and when it SMILES, it wins
as miles and miles of herring
excite its fearsome grins.
So beware,...
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Categories:
piped, fun, funny, giggle, humor, humorous, joy, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Viii - a Bit Risque
Limericks VIII plus one Lead-In Poem
Updated Advice to Amorous Bachelors
by Michael R. Burch
At six-thirty,
feeling flirty,
I put on the hurdy-gurdy ...
But Ms. Purdy,
all alert-y,
kicked me where I’m sore and hurty.
The moral of my story?
To avoid a...
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Categories:
piped, hilarious, humor, humorous, romance, romantic, sexy, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Through Madness and Mayhem
Through the Madness and Mayhem
“Alice, Alice,” the Mad Hatter said, “come to the table where jesters dance
A tale I'll weave, of merry delight so that you can enjoy, laugh and prance
Alice was awed, her head...
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Categories:
piped, adventure, africa, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Old Signs Stay True
Trespassers will be shot
I Survive not as a man but as a human being
I' am level but bent elements of life cast in a mutant haze
to come close to satisfaction my only compromise
brought up in...
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Categories:
piped, nature, peace, philosophy, politicallife, god, dog, dog,
Form:
Imagism
The Second Curse of the Horny Toad
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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Categories:
piped, allegory, analogy, animal, extended metaphor, fantasy, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
Sweet Cornbread and Warm Comfort
I rested my weight on the dated metal green and white glider. I moved back and forth listening to the cracking sound that the glider forced out of the patched slats on Mama Ruth's front...
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Categories:
piped, dedication, , western,
Form:
Narrative
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 8
Wake not to feel that all is maya all futile all cyclic dust
even if it were so the pain lingers pain...
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Categories:
piped, inspirational, day, pain, day,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part One
14: If the soul meets death when Sattva prevails, then it goes to the pure regions of those who are seeking truth.
15: If a man meets death in a state of Rajas, he is reborn...
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Categories:
piped, religion, death, death,
Form:
Free verse
The Truest Odes of War
Such heavy artillery,
To whom shall we run,
To God have we come,
In pain and sad form,
To state our hearts' deform,
To stake our rights and reforms,
You know that where two Elephants fight the grass suffers,Do be well...
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Categories:
piped, death, education, history, hope, peace, war, war,
Form:
Ode
Invisible Death Bite
I rest perched atop my tree branch blind,
watching and waiting
for anything to unknowingly pass below
I got sleek, midnight skin ...
distinct markings of a black panther
I got white eyes that glow in the dark,
my vision...
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Categories:
piped, animal, death, hate, truth, , cute,
Form:
Personification
Happily Never After
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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Categories:
piped, addiction, allegory, child, childhood, children, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
Sonnet
Heavenly Cake
We wanted to make a heavenly cake
But needed angelic ingredients
That were as far out of reach as can be
So we thought of other expedients
Like the famed store of unusual foods
Though it wasn’t around the corner
But...
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Categories:
piped, food, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of Claude Lafeet
There was an old cowboy named Claude LaFeet,
the scourge of the western plain.
A Frenchman by birth and a man of some girth,
he limped...
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Categories:
piped, adventure, , western,
Form:
Rhyme