Scoots Poems - Poems about Scoots

SINKING

...These are poems about sinking, poems about drowning, poems about loss, and poems about new discoveries we sometimes make while feeling lost...



Sinking
by Michael R. Burch

for Virginia Wool...

Villanelles III

...These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...


Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and ...

kitty has no idea

...Snail travels to Japan in the fanciest way
We see him traveling, he’s cutesy today
He is wearing a camera around his neck.
He stops to give the emperor a genuflect.

His hat is from Australia, h...

fancy snail travels to Japan

...Snail travels to Japan in the fanciest way
We see him traveling, he’s cutesy today
He is wearing a camera around his neck.
He stops to give the emperor a genuflect.

His hat is from Australia, h...

Halo of Happiness

...To those who seek instant gratification - 
I am a process, not a destination. 
Happiness.  

We attempt to crack its code, however, 
It remains a lifetime long endeavour....

Life Cycles By Inch Crawingg Caterpillar To a Radiant Beautiful Colorful Butterfly

...LIFE CYCLES BY INCH CRAWINGG CATERPILLAR TO A RADIANT BEAUTIFUL COLORFUL BUTTERFLY

 life cycles by inch
crawling caterpillar grows
by inch life cycles 

crawling inch by inch
 cat...

Lulu My Loony Cousin Is Allergic

...I am allergic to greens, so none of that will do.
It is my persnickety picky-eating cousin, Lulu.
But surely you are not allergic to lettuce, I say.
Oh, yes, and green beans and peas. The radish c...

Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Iii

...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE III

The Humpback
by Michael R. Burch

The humpback is a gullet
equipped with snarky fins.
It has a winning smile:
and when it SMILES, it wins
as miles and mil...

Pickle Throws a Party

...Mr. Pickle threw 
A lavish pickle party
Inviting all his friends
Dill, sour, kosher
Spears and even halves
Seeing that the party
Was off the chain
Some uninvited guest arrived
With thirst and...

Our Family Christmas Foods

...We have beef and noodles over mashed potatoes for Christmas.
There are many vegetables, the dieting adults pick at a few of them.
Rest of us gnaw on a variety of fudges, mints, and peanut brittle.
...

My Unicycle Ride

...It's my first time riding a unicycle,
I am terrified.
I don't want to let go of this wall
and end up mortified. 

My friend had told me it was easy;
Now I know she lied.
She promises she'll be...

Spring Break Vii - Ocean Flowers

...The former blond model pouts and primps
Swinging her hips
Down the splashing catwalk of shoreline
Sand caving to her imagined heels

Wheeling to her awaiting Israeli mogul
Her shoulders set so ...

Break Dancing In the Rain My Phone's Ringing-

...Who is the man with unleashed shoes
 Tap dancing on the wet grass what is he trying to do 
Picking up coins lost in sewer grates 
Trying to deposit them in the phone booths that no longer ...

Backfiring Big Time

...Me good old mate Henry Hawkins
is prankster intent through and through.
He’ll play those silly practical jokes
on the likes of both me and on you.
But I don’t think that he ever thought,
one alo...

Summer Walk

...A shoal of roach fast scatter at my shadow.
Mother moorhen toots as chick ducks in
and out of overhanging ivy.

A boating flower floats along intact
with shadow's faithful dancing follow,
on gr...

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