Stang Poems

Once again, yours truly takes poetic license

...Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby...

Categories: stang, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Star

...I didn't know what to say.

For once in my life, I was quiet.

I stood there, nails digging into my palms, it stang;

Eyes too, tears reflect what they see;

Tinnitus, blood rushes up above, ...

Categories: stang, angst, conflict, dark, extended
Form: Dramatic Verse

Light Verse and Nonsense Verse Viii

...Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch

History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.


The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. B...

Categories: stang, fun, funny, funny love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Purdy Please Or Mating Call Limericks

...Mating Calls, or, Purdy Please!
Limericks by Michael R. Burch

1.
Nine-thirty? Feeling flirty (and, indeed, a trifle dirty),
I decided to ring prudish Eleanor Purdy ...
When I rang her to bang ...

Categories: stang, america, humor, humorous, loneliness,
Form: Limerick

Limericks Viii - a Bit Risque

...Limericks VIII plus one Lead-In Poem



Updated Advice to Amorous Bachelors
by Michael R. Burch

At six-thirty,
feeling flirty,
I put on the hurdy-gurdy ...

But Ms. Purdy,
all alert-y,
...

Categories: stang, hilarious, humor, humorous, romance,
Form: Limerick

Funny How the Brain Plays Tricks

...There will never be a time for us,
I know you’ll never visit.

These words were coarse
With no remorse and
Casually omniscient.

Why say this? You never know,
May visit you one day.

I just...

Categories: stang, absence, confusion, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme

Hang and Nang

...There once was a woman named Hang.
She frankly could not have given a dang.
She fought and she bit.
She slapped, and she hit.
This angry old woman named Hang.

There once was a gentleman named ...

Categories: stang, 1st grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Limerick

Return of the Tyke

...Return Of The Tyke

Tyke, tyke, tyke' they’d chant to bait the bairn.
But insult hurled at Yorkshire folk is water off a back.
Take it, use it, grind it through the crank
As fuel for ...

Categories: stang, dedication, inspiration, mountains, race,
Form: ABC

Mustang Salad

...I'll bet you Five, I'll bet you Ten,
I'll even wager Fifty,
That you can't make this "Stang" wake up,
And hit an even Sixty!
 
The boy looked round and took his eyes
 From off the road ahead
 I'll take that bet, I'll make it do
 Much more than that, he said
 
Fifty-five and Si...

Categories: stang, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Washington

...To start the day I put on my hat,
To my surprise out flew a gnat.
I was startled by this creature with the smallest of wings,
So much that I dropped every bit of my things.
If it was a wasp and I was...

Categories: stang, animals, fear, seasons, sports,
Form: Rhyme