Long To beat the band Poems

The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
 
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
 
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
 
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
 
Dry leaf...

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(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")

It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...

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Sawing Firewood For My Dad, Again

"Saw them logs boys, saw them logs
 heat for the kitchen, heat for the halls
Winter is going to be so very cold,
 so get it done before we all grow...

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When I enrolled in magical school
Ma said good luck
Dad called me a fool

He always thought with my IQ
I’d fix people up,
Not saw them in two.

But I had a vision
And my self esteem
Hung on the balance
Of...

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(On May 1 1960, at the very depth of the
Cold War, CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot
down over the central USSR.  Here we are
imagining his conversation with a charge
d'affaires of the US Embassy. ...

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He plied the Mississippi River on the paddle wheeler 'Dandy Dame'.
Gamblin' was his profession and three-card monte was his game.
He became very creative at palmin' that elusive ace of spades.
Such dexterity and sleight of hand...

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True Blue Fisherman He Longed To Be

Once a seeking lad of long dreamt desires
true blue fisherman he longed to be
within summer's heat, its burning hot fires
went he through desert to welcoming sea
Only to find that...

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In theory I thought you would like to know
That I didn’t practice the piano
I’m a noted rebel
Who is now in treble
For showing my staff to a soprano

The keys are a problem, almost a curse
When I...

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Low Down Blues

Night was wickedly long and so sad 
 woman gone with everything I had
No recollection of this in the plan
 this gal done left her loving man
 crickets chirping to beat the band

This...

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Farmer Dan, was a gambling man, who loved to play at some cards;
So to beat the band, he tried his hand, at the other farm yards.

On one day, he struck pay day, at the home...

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keeping the rest of us locked out
the community planned is the building
of the little kingdoms
all equipped with their walls &
if they could afford it, get the permits,
you know they’d have a moat 
to beat the...

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Confessions Of A Poet



As the dark hour slays the great setting Sun
earthly fires in the nether regions flame
The poet's heart must see both to have fun
words spit forth earnestly but not a game
Slashing  one's...

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A touchy subject to say the least
Have certain thoughts of my own
Still no matter what anyone thinks
How's about we leave reincarnation alone

Once is enough for this old guy
A real touchy subject for sure
Retracing my crazy...

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A touchy subject to say the least
Have certain thoughts of my own
Still no matter what anyone thinks
How's about we leave reincarnation alone

Once is enough for this old guy
A touchy subject for sure
Retracing my crazy teenage...

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My spouse and I were ushered to our table by the Maitre d'.
We noticed right off that it was strangely quiet as could be!

Zombies sat at their tables, heads bowed as if in meditation.
Many with...

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The cloak closet was fairly clean
A brief dust would do it
Then pouring rain set in two days
Leaving white walls unfit

Now the closet isn't sparkling clean
From those down stream's dribbles
On the clean outside all looks well
Inside...

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He Clapped For Us All

he could clap like it hurt his pink palms,
regarding us with sacred consideration 
promises, words, meaningless, bland,
creations for every special occasion,

words waving like proud embattled flags
and he might rub noisy skin...

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Beautiful, yet so utterly vile!
Congress shut down, hiding, plotting.
The destruction of this country and its President.
Under the glitzy costume of a Virus you came.
Unabashedly shredding the Bill of Rights.
Joyfully, slamming churches and synagogues tight.

You vampires...

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Marvelous Minnie had a hissy fit and threw her lamp down the stairs.
It hit an elf, a gargoyle, and four children dressed as Goldilocks and the Bears.
They ran up to see what was going on...

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He could clap like it hurt his pink palms
and regard us with sacred considerations 
Promises, words, meaningless, bland,
created for every special occasion,

Words waved like proud embattled flags
Or he might rub noisy skin on cold hands,
like...

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My goodness, how rude can one get?
I haven’t even finished speaking yet.
Your uncaring interruption,
has ruined my thought construction.
Now I have to put my thoughts on the shelf.
Couldn’t you see I was talking to myself ?!

And...

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Think the jollies are starting to return
Told you I wouldn't stay down long
Not those kind of jollies, you naughty people
Thought you might get me wrong

You people, you really should be ashamed
What kind of dude d'ya...

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AN ARTICLE ON CNN

Think the jollies are starting to return
Told you I wouldn't stay down long
Not those kind of jollies, you naughty people
Thought you might get me wrong

You people, you really should be ashamed
What kind...

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It's raining cats and dogs on a dark and stormy night -
with such a stroke of genius, a poet starts to write.
Inane clichés he's banging out to beat the band,
a booby trap as big as...

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Think the jollies are starting to return
Told you I wouldn't stay down long
Not those kind of jollies, you naughty people
Thought you might get me wrong

You people, you really should be ashamed
What kind of dude d'ya...

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