Touring a Mansion
...My husband and I love to visit
Old mansions once home to the rich.
It’s cool to see wealthy folks’ manors,
With which most people wish they could switch.
I admire the woodwork and paintings,
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Categories:
manors, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Give this child what she needs
...Give this child what she needs
Love
Give this child what she needs
Shelter
Give this child what she needs
Prayers
Give this child what she needs
Some food and water
Give this child what she n...
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Categories:
manors, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Theory of Use and Misuse
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Lamarck’s ‘Theory of Use and Disuse’,
By giraffes seems subjected to misuse.
They learnt the table manners,
Eating through gaps of manors.
This photo of theirs gets million reviews!
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Categories:
manors, 4th grade,
Form: Limerick
The soldier's cradle
...
A mother lulls her son to peace
to loose his fist
and calm his arm
and sleep his chest
To make lion of his throat
turn roar his nose
and bow his head and eyes
while a river runs from the c...
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Categories:
manors, beauty, care, child, depression,
Form: Free verse
Beginning Again
...Beginning Again
David J Walker
I am the crumpled shirt
Ignored on the back floor
of your closet
I am the good idea
that became your
Lost cause
occasional thought the...
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Categories:
manors, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Tacitus Holloon
...F=G m1. M2/d2
Molten saltine solution
Manmade magma
Pow'ring turbines
Larder lake
Ontario song
Sings brilliantly
through the night
Then shall
Those sweet tastes
Make mornings
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Categories:
manors, music,
Form: Acrostic
Tacitus Holloon
...F=G m1. M2/d2
Molten saltine solution
Manmade magma
Pow'ring turbines
Larder lake
Ontario song
Sings brilliantly
through the night
Then shall
Those sweet tastes
Make mornings
Extra spec...
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Categories:
manors, music,
Form: Acrostic
Tacitus Holloon
...F=G m1. M2/d2
Molten saltine solution
Manmade magma
Pow'ring turbines
Larder lake
Ontario song
Sings brilliantly
through the night
Then shall
Those sweet tastes
Make mornings
Extra spec...
...
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Categories:
manors, music,
Form: Acrostic
Tacitus Holloon
...F=G m1. M2/d2
Molten saltine solution
Manmade magma
Pow'ring turbines
Larder lake
Ontario song
Sings brilliantly
through the night
Then shall
Those sweet tastes
Make mornings
Extra spec...
...
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Categories:
manors, music,
Form: Acrostic
Tacitus Holloon
...F=G m1. M2/d2
Molten saltine solution
Manmade magma
Pow'ring turbines
Larder lake
Ontario song
Sings brilliantly
through the night
Then shall
Those sweet tastes
Make mornings
Extra spec...
...
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Categories:
manors, music,
Form: Acrostic
The Lost City
...My hometown, my lost friend,
Thank you for greeting me once again,
at a time when we both are lost.
When I wander your streets,
you also wander within me,
weaved into my thoughts.
Winding down ...
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Categories:
manors, absence, allegory, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Poems About the Coronavirus Ii
...Poems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care...
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Categories:
manors, fear, loneliness, loss, natural
Form: Rhyme
A Litany In Time of Plague
...Update of "A Litany in Time of Plague"
by Michael R. Burch
THE PLAGUE has come again
To darken lives of men
and women, girls and boys;
Death proves their bodies toys
Too frail to even cry.
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Categories:
manors, death, depression, fear, funeral,
Form: Verse
Mothers Love
...Mothers love us near and far
Yes indeed they set the bar so high
They nurse us up strong so we see why
She teaches us that we all need to get along
They teach us right from wrong
Mothers teach u...
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Categories:
manors, care, childhood, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Market
...The preachers are collecting monies,
many times more than once
during the holy Mass on Sunday.
Jesus has thrown the money changers
from the Temple, telling them -
what did you do of my father'...
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Categories:
manors, religion,
Form: Free verse
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