Schmooze Poems

Premium MemberCraft Market at Pyree Fields

...
Each month a craft fair, 
is held at Pyree Fields in the open air.
All the local crafters are there,
proudly showing off their homemade fare.

Behind each stall, a pair of eyes stares,
hoping...
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Categories: schmooze, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen Something Special Happens again, and again, finally

...We said goodbye to August, 2015, and in that year we shared
The day we met, our futures set, in unison we're declared

That Christmas came and went, knowing we'd share it soon
Eight Thousand Mile...
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Categories: schmooze, children, love, people,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberThe Leaves of Autumn

...Like cherry blossoms in the spring
the leaves of autumn loosely cling
upon the drab, dark brownish bark
creating contrasts, stunning, stark.

As autumn leaves descend in droves 
upon the earth ...
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Categories: schmooze, autumn, beautiful, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Giving Tree

...A course-correction knife was plunged too late.
A smile was still, upon her lips, that date.

Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green.
Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are see...
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Categories: schmooze, imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Premium MemberMax’s Angel in Surround Sensation

...pink paragon
renders no features;
a buoyant olive
shouldered above florid wings.
golden halo, open ring.
nature’s schmooze, profound.
deeply saturated midnight
in the labyrinth of the ...
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Categories: schmooze, angel, art, beauty,
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium MemberChristmas Card To My Boss

...
We write to you, your elfin crew,
To wish you joy and cheer!
For Christmas is upon us now -
The climax of our year.

We've toiled together - unified,
In our allotted crews.
And now w...
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Categories: schmooze, christmas, metaphor, silly, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRazzmatazz

...Razzmatazz is jazz beyond roots and blues.
Razzle-dazzle kaleidoscope of hues.
Music and dance with multi-color moves.
Its pizzazz and cool schmooze amuses.
It fizzes glitz and glamour in views.
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Categories: schmooze, music, word play,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberWork

...Work

I tap and I fiddle
I type and reply
For people-machines;
Have developed an eye

I make and repair
I schmooze and I laugh
There's a time I have made
The occasional gaff

But I hope t...
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Categories: schmooze, god, jobs, retirement, work,
Form: Rhyme

Murdering Pluto

...
"Murdering Pluto" 

On Pluto, 
they deal with trauma
in the best possible way,
they murder it slowly 
in poetic hell 
day after day.

the dark Seraphim
have their way....
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Categories: schmooze, dark, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form: Narrative

Trump Poems and Epigrams Vi

...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI

Poets laud Justice’s
high principles.
Trump just gropes
her raw genitals.
—Michael R. Burch



Dark Shroud, Silver Lining
by Michael R. Burch

Trump cares so...
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Categories: schmooze, america, christmas, political,
Form: Rhyme

I Don'T Sing the Blues

...When things go wrong, I never sulk or sing the blues.
I'd rather go shopping for a brand-new pair of shoes,
or treat myself to a gigantic banana split at Molly Moos.
I'll not give up that trea...
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Categories: schmooze, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme

Trump Poems and Epigrams Ii

...TRUMP POEMS AND EPIGRAMS II

Quite Con-trary
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"

Trumpy, Trumpy,
fat, balding and lumpy,
how does your Rose Garden grow?
“With venom and spleen
an...
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Categories: schmooze, america, confidence, corruption, new
Form: Rhyme

The Case of a Stolen Diamond

...It was noon when I got the call
Jewelry store robbed at the mall
It was a young man, very tall
Spoke with a drawl   Spoke with a drawl

In the store, I'd been permitted
Where a theft had been c...
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Categories: schmooze, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

Pickles and Tickles: It's a Party

...It's a PICKLE PARTY and you're being invited!
Return your RSVP saying you'll be delighted
to attend. Don't forget to bring your sunscreen
so, you can keep your lovely shade of green.

The pool w...
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Categories: schmooze, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

In July

...In July mosquitoes fly 
And hummingbirds are humming.
Bees will buzz and all because
They don’t know fall is coming.

Weeks remain so none complain
That summer zips by quickly.
School is out a...
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Categories: schmooze, july,
Form: Rhyme

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