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Premium Member Summer
“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys
small and 
inconsequential 

casually tossed aside, 
disposable play,
things

pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright, 
switched off,

'neath...

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Categories: tennessee, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Epic



Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...

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Categories: tennessee, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form: Limerick
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity
Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity

The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch

Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!


A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch

Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...

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Categories: tennessee, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form: Limerick
Visit To Antietam
Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...

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Categories: tennessee, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form: Ode
Limericks Vi - Religion
Limericks VI - Religion

Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!



Why I...

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Categories: tennessee, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form: Limerick



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: tennessee, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP 

AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...

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Categories: tennessee, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member FENTANYL CRISIS CHICAGO
BEING A CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE SURVIVOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM CORRUPTION FOR THE FBI GOING INTO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS THERE ARE SOMETIMES CASULTIES
MY...

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Categories: tennessee, allah,
Form: Qawwali
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes
The Great Lakes acronym spells homes

I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge 
of aforementioned material slim.

Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA 
Great Lakes Environmental 
Research Laboratory writ tomes.

Pellucid...

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Categories: tennessee, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful, boat, creation, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mattson, a Place Unforgotten
In these United States of America, there is a little town not very far off the beaten path. Neither gold nor silver has ever been mined in or near this town of fertile delta soil....

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Categories: tennessee, home,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What's Love Got To Do With It
I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                           ...

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Categories: tennessee, child, cry, hurt, music, song, woman, world,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"



A writer writes of people 
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all

like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors 
that judgmentally remain closed after glimpsed twigging -

a monumental fail,...

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Categories: tennessee, depression, family, friendship, home, loneliness, lost, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Eulogy For Frank
My father died prematurely while away on 
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart  
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me, 
(not the same thing), adult to...

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tennessee, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member More Jazz Please
My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was...

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Categories: tennessee, food, friendship, fun, god, happy, music, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"



Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips 
on lines of sticky Asphalt

The father writes his play
The mother seen as absent
becomes deus ex machina
she will be the only one 

to...

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Categories: tennessee, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl out jogging, with her dog down by the lake
And felt...

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Categories: tennessee, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member April Fools For Bobby Lee
“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...

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Categories: tennessee, allegory, break up, history,
Form: Blank verse
Look no further than the nose on your face
Look no further than the nose on your face...

for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a couple of recent
purportedly natural events possibly
exacerbated courtesy global warming
namely present conflagrations
include...

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Categories: tennessee, america, anger, anti bullying, celebration, environment, film,
Form: Free verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Preface: 
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...

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Categories: tennessee, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member UNAMUSED PG598882344B AT YOUR SCARE TACTIC A HEROIN ADDICT ADDICTED TO FENTANYL
UNAMUSED BY YOUR SCARE TACTIC A HEROIN ADDICT ADDICTED TO FENTANYL PERCHED UP AT THE BIGGEST FENTANYL OPERATION IN CHICAGO SLEEPING IN THE SAME  BED WHERE TWO FAMILY MEMBERS DIED FROM THIS FENTANYL OPERATION...

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Categories: tennessee, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Song Titles A Differant Take
Who wrote the book of love
Why do fools fall in love
You Can't Hurry Love
You can if you're making it
Does Blondie's Sunday 
I Don't Know What Love Is
Ask someone who knows
Love Me Like A Hurrcane
And bow...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tennessee, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snake Oil Man In Milton Creek
It was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a surprise
Outside the saloon wagons were unloading, before noondays heat
Rumour had...

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Categories: tennessee, america, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Love You Elvis

Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis, came from poor beginnings
born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Vernon and Gladys
this boy loved the gospel music in church . . . . 
at thirteen his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee 
when...

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Categories: tennessee, music, tribute,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Bucket List
MY BUCKET LIST

Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to go...

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Categories: tennessee, adventure, journey, places, travel,
Form: Free verse
Happy Birthday Dear Sister
Happy birthday, my love….
Today you turn forty-seven years old, dear sister... 
May your wings shine brighter today than ever before.

May my smile bring you joy and laughter. Oh, how your laughter saved me so many...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tennessee, birthday, death, dedication, sister,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things