Nonce Poems - Poems about Nonce

...I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos shou......Read the rest...

..."We have more ability than willpower, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible". Francois de La Rochefoucauld <>...Read the rest...

... A peerless purveyor pared pears on a pier. Pierre, his au pair, peered on, it appears. Not payers, both players prayed pious petitions; For the nonce, no pence brought, naught ca......Read the rest...

...This isn’t the way it happened But it really could have been. Through half closed eyes I can imagine the scene. We’re sitting having a beer The whole troop and me, That cycle’s shifts are ......Read the rest...

...Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun, and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words - t......Read the rest...

...Translated: Si la vie demande ça by Laura and Chris Mayne by T. Wignesan. If Life would not wish it otherwise [Note: The two sister French Caribbean-Martinique Black “Blues” Swan : Laura an......Read the rest...

...Juvenilia: Early Poems X These are early poems written in my teens and twenties. Regret by Michael R. Burch Regret, a bitter ache to bear... once starlight languished in your hair.........Read the rest...

...The Big Boss My manager is a locust brain He doesn’t know what he’s doing My manager is a locust brain The job is kaos when he’s in charge here My manager is a locust brain Production takes......Read the rest...

...The Tender Weight of Her Sighs by Michael R. Burch The tender weight of her sighs lies heavily upon my heart; apart from her, full of doubt, without her presence to revolve around, found want......Read the rest...

...For the nonce, living soul, you will breathe in new lessons through our tender tethering as your seeking thirst is slaked through your skin; for life's osmosis seeps mortal knowledge not imp......Read the rest...

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLV - Tongue teasing epigrams A stitch in time can save an arranged marriage and stave off a family feud, not to mention everlasting vendettas. Still waters run deep in slee......Read the rest...

...The wind woke me up. It tried to be silent, as it always does, but I heard it creeping upon my forehead. The fury of which I’ve felt before, but heard it only in nonce occasion. Lapping its la......Read the rest...

...Perhaps a flight in mind shall strengthen thine own end, Between the birth of blasphemy strung along a river bend. Birth besides the breath of death, inhaled into nonce puffs, Poked between a s......Read the rest...

...From sources unknown, a song is grown, Sunk into the stem of a cerebellum’s bone. By which aperture does such a flood flow in? I cannot tell if either rhyme or reason may begin. The spurs of ......Read the rest...

...The hive is buzzing betwixt the midst of its queen, Swirling around an admired mind whose undeserved rapport ripples to her oppressive wings. Like victims to a vacuum, they spin within the machine ......Read the rest...