ALPHABET OF AWKWARD AMOR
...Awkwardly he made a pass
Bumped his head against the glass
Cheesy lines flew far and wide
Didn’t notice spinach fried
Ego big, but brain quite small
Fumbled trying to make a call
Gave her flowe...
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Categories:
lugs, break up, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: Abecedarian
BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
...BELOW AND ABOVE THE SEAS SURF FACE
Gone are the fishers pulling Lugs; the Gull its gizzard rusty hooked;
and barbed, limit its shelled Limpet supply as blown sand creeps;
smart gulls dunk and d...
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Categories:
lugs, beach, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Free verse
Maps a Buck: Free of Lugs
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(*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*)
The Sea of Galilee aint in Texas
good l...
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Categories:
lugs, appreciation, humorous, life, music,
Form: Lyric
NOISE
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This world is full of noise,enough to burst,
your mind and destroy well being lust,
noise from traffic on ground and air,
from telly,s ,radios and everywhere.
Gies a break we aa bellow,
makin ...
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Categories:
lugs, anxiety, conflict, depression, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Clusters
...They are forming clusters in the sky, and you cannot see them with your naked eyes you have to consult the giant telescope and go deep sea fishing in a construction boat, and when the wind hits your ...
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Categories:
lugs, america, art, bullying, deep,
Form: Narrative
Apple and Peach
...I look up at the skies above me
to describe how I was feeling
but there was no color in the sky
And the old man in the clouds
Was no were to be found
He died a century ago
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Categories:
lugs, abuse, america, change, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Deja Vu, a Mysterious Truth
...The steaming ghee rice,
yellow dhal,
cucumber salad,
spicy temptation wafting up from the beef curry…
My family,
from ma to niece,
sit at the dining table.
When I take the vacant chair,
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Categories:
lugs, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iv
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE IV
Anti-Vegan Manifesto
by Michael R. Burch
Let us
avoid lettuce,
sincerely,
and also celery!
Rising Fall
by Michael R. Burch
after Keats
Seasons ...
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Categories:
lugs, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Vanity Doom
...Come pray in this shady, serene location,
A place of sheer bliss and candid delight,
This scenic mead has a form and motion,
Bear me dip in calm; God bore me insight.
A place of s...
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Categories:
lugs, appreciation, character, dream, giving,
Form: Pantoum
Long Trails
...Vibram lugs 2 inches thick
for edge work back when
I was so young
with mountains to climb
the leather uppers
with mink oil spread
in the oven baked
again and again
Mountains I climb...
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Categories:
lugs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hope and Resilience
...Quest the shove your fate, my mate.
With the advice of the dough of joy sate,
To coincidentally run into one's soulmate.
In the way of other options, we baste.
Though worries wer...
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Categories:
lugs, analogy, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Oakey Dokey Smokey
...Oakey Dokey Smokey
He's my motley my baby pokey
geez smokey you sounded a little crockey
why I loved to be your b...
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Categories:
lugs, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Thoughts and Scenes
...It's like overhearing whispers
Above the rustle of fallen leaves and twigs
Breaking under two pairs of feet apiece
Of bachelors and spinsters
And remembering, it's the dead of winter
A mixing o...
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Categories:
lugs, rap,
Form: Rhyme
The Psychic
...Psychedelic music making me comfortably high
Lights flashing in the darkened, September sky
I’m feeling groovy as Visions of Johanna came on next
My IPod on loud as I tried so awkwardly to text
A...
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Categories:
lugs, political, religion, satire, war,
Form: Couplet
Peace At Last - Collaboration With Rob Bettridge
...There are women who feel a strong need
To nag men until their ears bleed
In a war of attrition
With relentless petition
Is a cruel way to make men concede
Men wish for a life of pe...
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Categories:
lugs, for her, for him,
Form: Limerick
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