Child Numbers Poems

From the dude
Who wouldn't sing his song
To the stone
He now sits upon

From the woman
Who took the fruit
To the ground
In which she became root

From the baby
In...

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Remember throwing a stone into a lake when you were a child…watching that stone soar…seeing the splash and discovering how the ripples returned back to...

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I’ve seen the stars dance
And played in the lake. 
I’ve gone to the beach and studied her waves. 
And I’ve read one hundred books,
And I...

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yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch

plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse



yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch

sunflowers
hang...

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How much I longed for the days
When the earth will rise to its glory again
How much I longed for the days
When we will give God...

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The second amendment gives the right to bear arms 
The sixth commandment says thy shall not murder
The Koran states 17:33 and do not take any...

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You don’t know this but
we’re all ISBN’s. At birth,
we’re tattooed across our asses
with barcodes, ID tags, social security numbers.
The only doctors allowed
to perform this surgical...

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Remember Paint-by-Numbers?
I loved them as a kid.
You filled in all the numbered spaces
Marked out on the grid.

You had your plastic pots of paint,
Each one a...

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