Long Trollop Poems

Limericks III - Grab Bag

Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:

Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch

The English are very...

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What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch

What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?

What good, the warm benevolence...

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Sonnets XC-XCVII

Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch

I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.

Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...

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Everyone voted Mrs. Garret’s tree as the best Christmas display in the village. Which was surprising in a way, as she was not really a local. 

Richard Garret, her husband, was not a man to...

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If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch

Love, how can I call on you;
does...

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I.
Rennie Hauser gazed out of the window
as the stage slowly trundled down the road,
the sun beat hard on the towering peaks
that ran across northern Colorado.

She was on the way to see her father
in the small...

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Mother of Cowards
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

So unlike the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land,
Spread-eagled, showering gold, a strumpet stands:
A much-used trollop with a torch, whose...

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He sits and mourns and weeps within the Willow trees.  A sodden forlorn form, 
alone in his own company.  bemoaning fate as destiny's joke.  While keeping in his 
cups.  An addled...

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homelands / husbands / playing house / strands 
& strings of horses behind strangers lounging 
un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, 
depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective 
as a twisted bark...

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Travel Time  Tropics Trip  Tepid Temperature  Tourist Town 
Tunnel Toll Ticket Taker Taxi Token Transit Trail Transport Truck 
Tractor Trailer Train Track Trouble Test Terror Turf Tribal Territory 
Tender Trap  Tricky...

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Enough Is Enough Horn Haiku

enough is enough
trump really was terrible
so we should impeach

completely absurd
totally denigrating
should get rid of trump

had been Bellau Wood
soldiers wounded and they died
so we cried and cried

trump sure is a strain
critize, condemn...

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The Adulterous Sea 
I drove to the top of a mountain along lanes that began in the mist of time. 
Looking north I could see the plateau of Alentejo, westward the Atlantic sea;
 it was...

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The Adulterous Sea 
I drove to the top of a mountain along lanes that began in the mist of time. 
Looking north I could see the plateau of Alentejo, westward the Atlantic sea;
 it was...

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OR, MY FEZ

Candy Daddy sneaks into my room at night
"Don't tell mommy," Candy Daddy says.
He has to give me candy when I ask for some
Or anything I want. A doll. A kitten. A fez.

"Candy Daddy,...

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One click closer to a naughty mama.
One click closer to a blue chanteuse.
One click closer to a prima donna.
One click closer to a femme fatale.
One click closer to a black deed done.
One click closer to...

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Trump When He Does Dance

You should see Trump when he does dance;
Steeped on her toes and peed in his pants;
Liked to gallop,
With a trollop;
Then he had a golden shower in a trance.

Jim Horn

A Relevant Elephant

Many...

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Three old crows were standing head-to-head
Conversing in the hallway between the classes
Wondering who they were dissing, with dread,
I knew fellow teachers they thought jacka**es,

And, occasionally, I had been on their hit list
Every workplace has a...

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The woman with the red dress on
is the sensuous Scarlett O'Hara,
protagonist of "Gone with the Wind,"
a woman caught.between the old South
and new South as she struggles to survive,
aiming to save her plantation Tara to thrive.

Her...

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Come one come all cam one holds her tall cam two lights and all four horses trollop 
away in the night. Alive at five Adult mind Winders shall perform a demonstration a 
subscription based presentation...

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Morning comes. Wake up. Wake up
to the sound of bright, dry rain
falling. Hearts cannot stop.

Your memories always develop
In photographs I keep.-- can't keep sane.
Morning comes. Wake up! wake up!


I miss you... Your smell, the way...

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O' boy; have you all heard the street gossip today 
Mrs. Pringle at No. 9 is having a bad hair day

Mr. Ellis at No. 4 had a shave, as cut his chin
Danny at No. 21...

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It afflicts king and queen alike.
Brought to the castle 
by the master of infildelity.
He moves smoothly from one to the other.
He swiftly takes them 
as is his right, he believes.
Only to have his fill
from the...

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