Screechy Poems

I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025

...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.

How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...

screechy airplanes daily

...grating sky noises
elongated screechy scream
clamoring airplane

destroying silence
threatening my peace of mind
in flight path daily...

NEVER'S FOREVER'S

...I’ve a box of never’s
Slightly used
Some just lightly touched
Others quite abused
For never is an endless moan
A screechy thing lacking tone
A chewing dog without a bone
Each never a curse ete...

The Tin Man Of Oz

...That wicked old witch made me the Tin Man

   Sans a heart, I'm like a rusty tin can

      I creak like a screechy hinge

         Making my many friends cringe

            A spritz of oil ...

This Sound You Are Making

...This sound you are making
A fiddler plays.
A screechy joy. If one
That's highly strung!
Did you know that? Know this.
Boy, when a man
Chopin's weepy keyboard
A heart will hoard....

Unlike

...7/23/22

Unlike anyone
Can't be worried about none
Got to get it done
As well as have fun
Doing it all underneath the moon and sun
Took losses but mostly won
Carrying a gun
Weight on my shou...

Her Voice Is Annoying

...Kind of person who is never fun
Her voice is always perpetually one
It is forever screechy and loud
You can usually hear her in every crowd...

Septuagenarian Serenade

...Septuagenarian Serenade
By Sy Roth


It wants to warble a fine tune
It wants to fill the night with a pleasing glissando
Rising and sliding into joyful jig

Instead, the brittle vocal chords ...

Drifting Darkly

...Falling through pompous poems, spiraling
Slippery sinking, rhyming rolling
In down directions, foreign for me
Cascading in chalkboard screechy sounds
Hanging by nails that can catch and clasp
Cl...

Bucket List

...she stood on an empty bucket with a tight noose around her neck

when doubts crept in through a hole in the bottom of the rusty vat

naked she was twisted torn with defeat tattooed into a punctur...

Turkish Poetry Translations I

...Turkish Poetry Translations I



Ben Sana Mecburum: "You are indispensable"
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
tha...

Gull Trouble

...Like rowdy teens all running for a bus
The gulls have seen the merest hint
That someone threw a crust
An unwanted  scrap from Pret
The bottom of a wrap or the final soggy 
Mouthful from a keytch...

Aria

...A radio aired an awful auld aria,
Astounding all my aged aural edifices 
In eerie aura of araucaria trees
Aching angrily in a loud typhonic breeze.

My brain wanted to burrow to escape the pain
...

You Are Indispensable: Attila Ilhan Translation

...Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain...

Attila Ilhan Translations

...Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as eve...

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