Long Quote Poems
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EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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quote, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
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Epigram
LimericksLimericks
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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quote, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
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Limerick
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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quote, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
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Epigram
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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quote, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
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:
quote, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in KalapanaI stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road...
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quote, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian, family, happiness, religion,
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Narrative
Time, Friend Or Foe"Time is the thief you cannot banish." ...
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quote, life, time,
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Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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quote, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
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Epigram
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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quote, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
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Narrative
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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quote, history,
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Free verse
Prophets and MessiahsThe difference between bad-old-boy competitively evolving egg whites
and good-girl revolutionary just-us-yolks
is the difference between prophetic intent
and messianic practice,
said Professor Glory
in her Gospel of Permaculture class,
one Friday morning
while sitting on her
crass desk of Primal Theory.
What could...
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Categories:
quote, destiny, environment, nature, science, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and QuotesLEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES
These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...
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Categories:
quote, art, eulogy, nature, poems, poetry, silence, spring,
Form:
Epigram
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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quote, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
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Imagism
Roses Are Red Collab-26These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous. If you would like to add one of your own and remain anonymous send it to my soup mail. Enjoy!
Roses...
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quote, anti bullying,
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Limerick
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 5The 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:
quote, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
quote, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
IntrospectivelyUnderstanding myself, and towards developing introvertedly
The parameters of today, yet most lay dormant inside of me
Questioning the how, as in such, the extended inner faculty
Fractured as then, it's an opposing end, and...
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quote, depression, faith, fear, feelings, forgiveness, growth,
Form:
Acrostic
Room 251 13 th March 2024Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming endorsements of the preceeding years yet ghostly
Sounding echies now.....
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quote, community, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
The History of a Wasted Mind
“The History of a Wasted Mind”
What goes through the mind of a recidivist
Fist full of hate and hurt marking time
Fist full of history, got down with the dirt
The History of a Wasted Child
The History...
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Categories:
quote, abuse, child abuse, war,
Form:
Free verse
Highland LassieInspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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quote, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
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Lyric
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital BedImpossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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quote, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old ManAn old man arose as most often do
in a state of tension and stress.
To the bathroom he ran... or was it the loo,
his bladder he had to...
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Categories:
quote, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The LightQuote By Poet: "Some pets are people in fur coats"
I had a calling, ...
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quote, child, dad, dog, love, sleep, true love,
Form:
Personification
MaelstromA situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil. (dictionary definition #2 of Maelstrom)
Today’s opinions are so contrasting and divisive that nobody seems to know up from down!
I believe fairly strongly in what I...
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quote, philosophy,
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Political Verse
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High2017 - 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:
quote, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form:
Free verse