Long Ungainly Poems
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Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
ungainly, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
ungainly, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Limericks
Limericks
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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Categories:
ungainly, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
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:
ungainly, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Sonnets Lxi-Lxx
Sonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
ungainly, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and Bees
Poems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
ungainly, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
ungainly, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
ungainly, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Trinitarian Voices
Father’s Voice
Your ungainly question,
What is the meaning of Life?
reminds of another,
What is purpose to Beauty?
which reminds of,
What is meaning and purpose for Grace?
and Karma?
Not ugly, empty, meaningless death, perhaps?
Life, like beauty, evolves appositional responses
of meaning,...
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Categories:
ungainly, culture, earth, god, health, life, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Pandora's Box
Pandora's BoX
Whom to blame?
What woman now walks, the lethal ancestress
Of the original ancestress, that one named
Pandora, that one with the gleaming eyes that said:
"I want; I need, to know?"
Where is she...
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Categories:
ungainly, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Double Limericks
The Platypus: Double Limerick
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus, myopic,
is ungainly, not erotic.
His feet for bed
are over-webbed,
and what of his proboscis?
The platypus, though, is eager
although his means are meager.
His sight is poor;
perhaps he’ll score
with a...
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Categories:
ungainly, cheer up, fun, funny, funny love, giggle,
Form:
Limerick
The Platypus, a Double Limerick
These are poems about animals by Michael R. Burch
Double Limerick: The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus, myopic,
is ungainly, not erotic.
His feet for bed
are over-webbed,
and what of his proboscis?
The platypus, though, is eager
although his means are...
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Categories:
ungainly, animal, desire, humor, humorous, love, nature, nonsense,
Form:
Limerick
The Icebreaker Krasin - David and Goliath
THE ICEBREAKER KRASIN - DAVID AND GOLIATH
Between the docks* for cruise ships...
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Categories:
ungainly, historyriver,
Form:
Narrative
Dreamtime: Woodenman
Unbeknownst to me, WoodenMan enjoyed quite a cotillion of female admirers. With
his rosewood
dimples barely lifted in permanent bemusement, women found him adorable, though
decidedly eunuch.
It all began the night I visited the local...
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Categories:
ungainly,
Form:
Narrative
Serious Sibling Subluxation
Serious sibling subluxation...
rapprochement somewhat salvaged dislocation
Truth be told about following poem
mostly written quite some years ago,
and revisions made to recreate
and revise a more satisfactory literary product.
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah...
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Categories:
ungainly, absence, age, angel, appreciation, betrayal, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Having Felled It
The warmth no longer comes
it seems to only leave.
The furry ones, all
caught in hypnotic disbelief:
hardening ground's
taken root
where once
gardening grounds
(forsaken, mute)
were once and again
makin' fruit.
Each beast, shaking
like a leaf
(though, truth be told
I've only ever
seen 'em...
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Categories:
ungainly, autumn, philosophy, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Love In Her Nature
Love the oldest,
Love the youngest,
The smallest,
The broadest.
Imperfectly perfect,
Proudly humble.
Endlessly end,
Peacefully troubled.
Quietly lousy,
Uncountable counting.
Pleasurable painful,
Ungainly gainful.
Resurrecting in killing,
Smiling in weeping.
Coming in going,
Abiding in departing.
Truth in lies,
Open-mindedness in sly.
Elevation in humiliation,
Built in destruction.
Unity in separation,
Honesty in temptation.
Standing...
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Categories:
ungainly, art, black african american, education, men, love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Love My Job!
The alarm clock signals a brand new day,
So I dress, and head for my job,to earn my pay.
It's a very pleasant morning, as I arrive at WOORRKK!
(Even the sound of that word makes me react...
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Categories:
ungainly, funny, people, workme, me, time,
Form:
Light Verse
Serious Sibling Subluxation
Serious Sibling Subluxation...
Rapprochement Somewhat Salvaged Dislocation
This trademark ungainly, unsightly,
and unwieldy title essentially
huzzah mask queer aid,
and accentuates tendency
(mine) to administer
...
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Categories:
ungainly, 8th grade, deep, growing up, jewish, magic,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Second To None
Welcome to the war, son ...
You’ve been conscripted,
go grab a gun
And you daughters
of the new American flag,
you’re not exempted either
Go get that gat outta my bag
There’s a 21st century civil war goin’ on,
and you...
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Categories:
ungainly, conflict, parody, perspective, war,
Form:
Light Verse
The Monster Without Purpose
A mountain of grounded rock reaching to the skies
A rabbit burying into a whole
A pig building a house of straw
Why, concrete little pig, brick and sweat
A tree, untrimmed and ungainly
Buzzing insects, foaming with diseases and...
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Categories:
ungainly, imagination, nature, people, philosophytime, silver, time,
Form:
Free verse
A Land of Two Realms
January 31, 2017
A long, long time ago in the lands of the giant tulip trees
Lived a wondrous animal, called the Alley Phont Sheeze.
Standing as tall as the great Coconut Shrine,
He pounded thru the jungle like...
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Categories:
ungainly, fantasy, humor, love, magic, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Abracadabra
Pray, let me tell a story not so sweet-
E'er sure thy holes on head's side glean'd this 'ere;
Once upon a time, when naught ruled discreet,
Please panic not- there was no time to...
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Categories:
ungainly, satire, science, word play,
Form:
Acrostic
Never Again
Pulled together
by a magnetic avoidance of loneliness,
fueled by an insatiable ardor
to evade a shortage of love.
Mutually splintered souls searching
for a place to embed and
implement a façade which conceals
mutilated minds.
Spurious attempts to disarm
the timebomb which...
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Categories:
ungainly, abuse, addiction, hurt, violence, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Armitage Pod
Armitage Pod
Armitage Pod was a ‘cuddly’ cat
Who insisted on sleeping in the old bowler hat
His amplage cascaded right over the brim
Forming a blubble all around him.
He was big, he was bold and as fit as...
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Categories:
ungainly, pets,
Form:
Rhyme