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Running the Gauntlet

~Running the Gauntlet ~
Simplistic in its structure…
Nearly amateurish…
Unpolished attempt…
Superficial…
Facile…
Without subtlety…
Nonsensical…
Journalistic attempt at prose…
Lack of complexity…
Unimaginative…
The underlying message is vacuous…
Unsophisticated…
Puerile attempt…
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Not for us…
Not the right fit…
Not quite right for this publication…
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Categories: publish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Pants As Good As No Pants

It is fast becoming rampant,
The whole thing: perfect irritant:
Baring screened-off contents of pants
Guilty:  old dames and debutantes
And these pants are exorbitant,
Uncomplaining buyer brilliant!

Freedom continues to seeds plant
Crossed Christians turning militant,
Who would wearer waste or her pants,
New growing mistrust of fired rants,
Towards shaming violence slant 
No more to assaults an “I can’t.”

But what would women

Categories: publish, clothes, love, people, woman,
Form: Rhyme

Do I Wanna Publish

Do I wanna publish? Let me think this through...
I only wanna publish, if my work means something to you
I only wanna publish, if my writing like thunder strikes you with truth
And I only wanna publish, if my work ends up being sentimental to you
I don't wanna publish, 'cause my writing still causes me tears
I don't

Categories: publish, dedication, devotion, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Publish Or Cherish

Were I to compile all my poems
I’d surround myself with six or eight great tomes
And watch the age of yellow slowly creep
On poems with which no one would share a peep.

I fantasize of picking out the best
But then, what would I do with all the rest
For in their moment they were dear to me
How shall

Categories: publish, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Publish and Be Damned

Publish a book, they say, they say
Only an hour or so out of your day
The six months to write it they overlook
Then ignore the time that the editing took

They don’t count the time at my laptop I lurk
To make that damned PDF converter work
Or tot up the minutes or days that I frown
While stopping the

Categories: publish, books, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

English Pub Date

Paperback writer’s title was confirmed long ago 
Prepared and ready for imprint info 
It was a simple authored task 
Based on honesty no need for a performing arts mask 
No hidden comments 
Only an eerie feeling of ‘I got em’ 
Laboring throughout the past 
Taking a sip once every page from the flask 
Success at

Categories: publish, adventure, books, drink, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Publish Shall I His Words and Glorious Deeds-

Publish I His glorious deeds, among the nations;
I will write
and I will sing His songs;

Publish His words and glorious deeds
among the nations;
I will let my light so shine;

O'
and Alleluia
Glory to the most High
Alleluia
to the Sweet by N by

Singing praises to the King
What a joyish offering

I will write poems and songs
To praise Him
Glory and honor

I will

Categories: publish, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, devotion,
Form: Lyric

The Better Man

The Better Man
by Michael R. Burch 
  
Dear Ed: I don’t understand why
you will publish this other guy—
when I’m brilliant, devoted,
one hell of a poet!
Yet you publish Anonymous. Fie!
 
Fie! A pox on your head if you favor
this poet who’s dubious, unsavor
y, inconsistent in texts,
no address (I checked!):
since he’s plagiarized Unknown, I’ll wager!

Categories: publish, literature, nonsense, parody, poems,
Form: Limerick

Publish Rubbish Horn Limerick

Publish Rubbish Horn Limerick

In newspaper many things may publish
And most of them were pure rubbish
Trump kind and considerate have heard
And in his vocabulary is no such word
For him to go away we sure do wish.

Jim Horn

Categories: publish, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Publish

Within that rule of thumb
that I am vanquished, yet among
majorities ~ the role's succumb
I cast it not ~ the vote's benumb?

Acceptance core ~ I take the floor
objecting, by what's evermore
the scoundrel's choice, is his rapport
so in my station ~ file encore!

Admonishing by gains restore
the underdog of faith's implore
is greed ~ and tools its own abhor
creating

Categories: publish, poets, political,
Form: Monorhyme

How To Publish a Book

Now first things first

Right a out a manuscript
(Well duh!)

Next...

Prepare it exactly how you want it
(Like I'm going to prepare it any different)

After that...

Have somebody eDiT your storu
(Yeah because I want to have mistakes in it)

Then...

Find a good publishing company
(No, I think I'll try a bad one)

Later...

Send in your copy
(No I'd rather just publish it magically)

Next...

Wait

Categories: publish, computer-internet, funny, on writing
Form: Free verse

Publish, Change Or Be Damned

You want me to write in metaphors
Twist meaning to fit the rhyme
Make the word count perfect
So many beats in time.
Use words out of context
Which have nothing really to say
My plain style not good enough
So change it or go away
So should I write my offerings?
Just like what follows now

Substitute fatalities, cowering yellow
Within the confines of a

Categories: publish, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?