Losing Face
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One may see puffins and parrots
any hour of the week
both birds bear a big colourful beak
the former pelagic feed on fish
and live in large colonies on coastal cliffs
tho' monogamous c...
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Categories:
omnivorous, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poem VIII
...Children's Poems VII
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sailing to My Grandfather, for Georg...
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Categories:
omnivorous, child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Facial Recognition Blues
...Facial Recognition Blues
Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innoce...
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Categories:
omnivorous, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
A Day In the Life Act 3 and 4
...Act Three - the nap
Naptime was uneventful. The girls didn’t show up. The dog snores. He drools. The pillowcase is a brownish, water stained, Picasso-esque masterpiece.
Act Four - table fo...
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Categories:
omnivorous, age, humor, life, pets,
Form: Prose
My Wild Brother
...I'm of God,you too are of God;
We belong to the same house under one father,
Who gave us a breath that makes us living.
My brother,of fine social morals,of the bush;
I come in peace,to clear the ...
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Categories:
omnivorous, nature,
Form: Free verse
Big Question
..."If I kill a wicked person, a liar or Satan
Will I have ever peace or world be peaceful forever?"
-QOUTE BY MAHTAB BANGALEE
I'm w...
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Categories:
omnivorous, life,
Form: Free verse
Dicing Spin
...Your trademark omnivorous stunts
Glean clean what minute remnants
Menaced graces do sparingly yield;
And take back reliefs heavens field.
Inclement rob your ravenous fangs;
Mowing to naught ...
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Categories:
omnivorous, adventure, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Personification
Eliminating Death - a Dramatic Monologue
...What?
I hope you are not serious, my fellow mortal!
Not serious when you suggest that we should
Eliminate death.
How could we?
This is preposterous!
But if you are serious, tell me how co...
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Categories:
omnivorous, death, life, world,
Form: Free verse
Moved
...Out of the bowels of the apartment come
the trivia of the past.
Old receipts pushed to the backs of drawers,
faintly accusatory,
records of money and passions spent;
Yellowed paperbacks ma...
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Categories:
omnivorous, happiness, home, how i
Form: Free verse
Beyond Real
...when Animal Farm is not a feeding manual
and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight
Dali’s time piece warps under face value
and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest
beneath the cover...
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Categories:
omnivorous, dream,
Form: Free verse
Gobbledygook About Thanks Taking Formerly Known As Thanksgiving
...Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate
palates...
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Categories:
omnivorous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Halloween Fun
...Howling and hooting sets the tone for tonight
Alabaster skin shows a child is full of fright
Lover’s lane is as creepy as artery’s spackle.
Laughter distorted as a witch’s cackle.
Omnivorous owls...
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Categories:
omnivorous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Ii
...Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers II
All Things Galore
by Michael R. Burch
for my grandfathers George Edwin Hurt Sr. and Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
Grandfather,
now in your gray presence
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Categories:
omnivorous, family, father, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Children
...Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes....
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Categories:
omnivorous, boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Pains
...I have no torment, no pain-difficulty
I am not the seller of sorrowful key
Stellar of the far friends I am
New sky in my entrepreneur jam
Being human I can feel meticulously
the pains of dying...
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Categories:
omnivorous, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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