Shamrock on the Shorts
...a fairy tale of Camden Town
Clancy’s Gym, the same old sounds
a minute’s rest then two more rounds
I’ll jack this in (like Bobby Prewitt)
but where’s the one who made me do it?
He hasn’t come,...
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Categories:
steiger, image,
Form: Couplet
William Blake Poems
...dark matter(s)
by Michael R. Burch
the matter is dark, despairful, alarming:
ur Creator is hardly prince charming!
yes, ur “Great I Am”
created blake’s lamb
but He also created the tyger
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Categories:
steiger, brother, children, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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:
steiger, america, confidence, corruption, new
Form: Rhyme
Sidney Poitier Rip
...*Image of Sidney Poitier.
Sidney Poitier RIP
~~~0~~~
Sidney,
Tony,
Defy's,
Tough Guys,
De-means,
Offed-Steams,
Mellow,
Fellow,
Recaught,
Re-Taught,
Best...
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Categories:
steiger, career, celebrity, character, confidence,
Form: Footle
Bemused
...beMUSEd
by Michael R. Burch
Perhaps at three
you'll come to tea,
to have a cuppa here?
You'll just stop in
to sip dry gin?
I only have a beer.
To name the "greats":
Pope, Dryden, mates...
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Categories:
steiger, art, inspiration, inspirational, muse,
Form: Rhyme
See
...See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her e...
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Categories:
steiger, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet