TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY
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With the results of this election…the majority of people think I shouldn’t be sad
after all, they say, we only disagree politically!
This was democracy in action, they add, we voted for the chang...
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Categories:
preempted, sad,
Form: Rhyme
A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part II: ANSWERED
...My distracting theatrics verses are preempted versions of impending calamity, one by air, and, one by sea.
The point of levity is to advance the common element of surprise--the unexpected...
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Categories:
preempted, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Trump Poems and Epigrams VI
...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI
Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch
My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.
May I offer you dark...
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Categories:
preempted, america, giggle, hilarious, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Ample Rose Bush
...Silken whispers greet the blithe morning
damp mist spring tap on red oak door
joyful treat preempted faint dawning
Felicity a phase one can’t ignore
bright daffodil white and pink bloom
fragr...
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Categories:
preempted, art, beautiful, beauty, change,
Form: Terza Rima
Forbidden
...“No matter how low we fall, God holds our hand ~
All’s enabled, if this truth we understand”
~ quote by poet
Both Adam and Eve were tempted
To eat...
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Categories:
preempted, desire, god, heaven,
Form: Quintain (English)
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 38
...Day 38
Pugnaciousness set aside,
Phantasmal was the anticipation,
Possessing each moment
Some shutter fell over him
He knew, at least, that he had me
He knew that I cared enough
Ours toge...
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Categories:
preempted, bible, black love, feelings,
Form: Epic
Unknowable
...If you could but in one moment
trust something
let go
release yourself from controlling
the unknowable
Immediate present be
to an indeterminable future
the short explanation
to a lifetimes ...
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Categories:
preempted, faith,
Form: Free verse
A Day Preempted
...down leaf-strewn lanes
hedgerows of inspirations
a poet’s dreaming reveals
a poetry records it well
a day preempted...
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Categories:
preempted, dream, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Limericks Lunatics Likely Will Love
...Limericks Lunatics Likely Will Love
Digested, invested, protested.
Reliance, compliance, confidence.
Repeated, conceited, defeated
Repetitive, sedative, creative
Connection, deception, recepti...
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Categories:
preempted, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Pablo, According To Me, Part 1a
...Pablo...according to me (Part 1a), read Part 1b to finish
Re Pablo Picasso printmaking exhibition at Bellagio Hotel's Fine Art Gallery.
(1) Left Profile of a Woman with Blue Hair
The lass y...
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Categories:
preempted, art, , 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
What I Learned On the Web Today
...A woman accused of murder attempted
But the boyfriend escaped - the deed was preempted
Her weapon of choice - 38 double Ds
She smothered him so he could not even sneeze
But he pushed and he shoved th...
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Categories:
preempted, girlfriend-boyfriend, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Free Cee Exceptionally Exempt
...EXCEPTIONALLY EXEMPT
Her words were worthless
Her promises preempted
Her vows were not vehement
Until from her life I was exempted
I buried my soul within her hardened heart
I dug a grave for a mos...
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Categories:
preempted, angst, words, grave,
Form: Quatrain
Photo's
...Photo's capture so many scenes
Love and War, peoples dreams
In black and white
Colour too
Even off, me and you
En-captured vista's of mother earth
Every one a persons worth
Taken now or lon...
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Categories:
preempted, art, inspirational, life
Form: Rhyme
Little Miss Tough Squit..
...Little Miss Tough Squit,
Was downing a "shot",
When some jive-arsed turkey...
Parked his butt right next to her spot...
He oogled Miss Tough Squit...
Thought he might have a chance...
Asked her...
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Categories:
preempted, adventure, funny, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Life and House-Sequel
...What would I do with a larger canvas house,
I need about thirty square feet space to sleep,
And a little less to sit,
Perhaps a little more to walk as I rest inside,
Barring common area multiply ...
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Categories:
preempted,
Form: Free verse
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