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Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...
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Categories:
tumbled, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
tumbled, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
Poems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
*
Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
*
What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
tumbled, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
tumbled, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Millie's Christmas Wish
Millie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
tumbled, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust Poems
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
tumbled, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
tumbled, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
tumbled, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
The Crow Ghost of Haunting Footsteps
Break my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
tumbled, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
tumbled, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Trap of Zulaikha
Zulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
tumbled, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Cavemen
Ugg and Ogg, on a rock they sat.
The pair were in hiding from the sabred cat.
They had hunted for a whole week long.
But, recently it had all gone wrong.
The ladies were waiting...
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Categories:
tumbled, funny, humor, silly,
Form:
Verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
tumbled, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Bionic Betty: Another True Tale From the Mental Ward
Betty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...
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Categories:
tumbled, crazy, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
The Terror Bugs pursued them through the skies toward the river
Cody flew just fast enough but still he felt a shiver
“Any slower and we’ll stall...
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Categories:
tumbled, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Cocoons Hibernating In Summer
I made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was stifling me inside
I did not know which way to turn...
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Categories:
tumbled, america, angel, christian, community, environment, insect, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 2: Held Down - a Poetry Voyage
It’s complicated…
I’m the king of jealousy
Keep me up
I’m held down
Rumors are like the watery triangle of nasty errors…
(Aphradere waterfalls fall on us)
My black and white future is full of grey blurs
(Remember, we are...
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Categories:
tumbled, angst, betrayal, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
tumbled, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Transmigration of the Wind
The strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
tumbled, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos Radnoti
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...
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Categories:
tumbled, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Versailles
In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole.
It’s a five-star bash at the palace...
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Categories:
tumbled, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy, humor, paris,
Form:
Free verse
Unitarian Church returnee
Unitarian Church returnee
After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional
almost three months
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted
beautician at Salon Nova
located in beautiful
downtown Limerick, Pennsylvania
to render my...
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Categories:
tumbled, 3rd grade, age, america, atheist, community, education,
Form:
Free verse
to count quantum sheep
foggily out of cryostasis, I came ...
a slow painful waking to a vessel that's shaking
from the stress of its increasing mass
I at once was made...
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Categories:
tumbled, adventure, analogy, science fiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Land Is a Loom
Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
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Categories:
tumbled, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
The Death of Marriage
It looked so right on paper to everyone; but when the night embraced her she was alone, still wanting to believe in love.
Her footsteps echoed through her cathedral of a house which offered her...
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Categories:
tumbled, heartbreak, loneliness, loss, lost love, love, love
Form:
Narrative