Long Yuk Poems

Currents
by Michael R. Burch

How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...

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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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Rum and Raisin, on the mat, were playing with their toys
Their humans had the tv on to give some background noise
Rum said, “Raisin, there is something that I want to do,
To meet a man from...

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Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up one morning
To find you were still a child
So much energy jumping up and down upon your bed
So many wonders and thoughts swirling through your bed
No responsibilities
Just fun and...

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Laughter and ruin tells the story,                                     of our first family dinner.  
Married just six short months,       ...

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Humans Live For Adventure & Mystery
That's Why GOD Keeps Some Things Under Lock & Key
(Eccl. 3: 10, 11)
So, We'd Search & Seek & Survey & See
& Either Answer, 'At Last!' ... or Say, 'Enlighten Me'...

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Once upon a time two gumdrops dissolve


once upon a time
there were two gumdrops
she was purple, he was yellow
they were complete opposites
they both worked at a hotel
on a white sandy beach
with palm trees swaying on the...

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A Franky and Spud Encounter

The coach, old and rusty, pulled up at the gate 
The horses, portending the schoolchildren’s fate
Franky looked over and thought it was great
While Spud bore a look that said he was...

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We all went down to the beach today; it was hot as hot can be.  
The carpark was full, Dad got cross and my sister wanted a wee. 

The picnic basket handles broke, our...

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I would like to do an interview with you,                          ...

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beautiful delicate moments from my childhood ...
    is when I was helping mother ... in her flower garden
      father always said we were happiness digging
  ...

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Washing Up

It's high time I did the washing up
What a chore, What a bore,
I crept into the Kitchen, just look at the mess
Now I want to wash up, even less

A baking tray on its edge
Seventeen...

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Squirm the Germ 

Vs.1
There’s a germ, his name is Squirm, he lives inside our head, and when we cough or sneeze or wheeze, he jumps right out instead! So…..
(Point to your head, then use both...

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Morning assembly
Classroom hell
Couldn't count couldn't spel
School books and fountain pens
Playing in the playground with all my friends
Gobstoppers and chewing gum
Plastic sandals boys shorts to hide your bum
Wax crayons and powder paint
Rembrandt I never was and...

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Kathy and the Lake Monster

we arrived at last
after four hot hours
travelling ever northward.
in Boda’s old boat, 
at least that is what we called it,
a huge, turquoise blue ford with  
great swoops of fins on...

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often she'd stay the weekend. I'd give her these turnovers. She'd reject them at first by saying" yuk, you eat pig ears"! but one day she took one and ate it. She request them every...

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3 bears,                                                                   ...

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My mom and dad loved drinking coffee black,                    the coffee pot was full and never did lack.                   ...

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Well!  I remember the first date I was a teenage boy
I picked her up in the car had to wait for her she was late 
She finally came out I open the door she...

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She stood there and slooshed on the grass at her feet
She’d have to move forward before she dared eat
She walked a few paces to discover that
Some other cow had left a foul splat

Wherever she looked...

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FATTY MOUTH
When I was a kid I used to scare other kids.                       ...

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GRAN’S LAST MESSAGE

Seems smelly old Gran wrote a note before she died the second time, it was found on her when the army picked up all the dead Zombies up off our street, it reads...

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SCHOOL TIME CRUSH--

I remember seeing you in school;
I’m a bit sly to say I’d admired you from far away;
Your auburn hair, those glasses you wear, so cool;
One day I was eladed that your best friend...

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Let Me Free


So vast global, so tiny space, for distancing
Old’s gone as new ways conquered 
Some of them challenge to adopt newer 
While many of them let to be confused
Where the evil virus resides.

Stop, rest,...

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Satsuma, were you Man's first attempt at cloning,
neither orange nor tangerine,
misshapen orange, misspelt tanggerine
as you left the Japanese test tube,
ends flattened through lack of genes,
did they call you Fatsumo
ready to be fed by the thousand
into...

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