Stilly Poems

In a Cold Winter

...Icy,icy land
Heapy ,heapy hills
Drippy,drippy fountains
Stilly,stilly leaves
Sturdy,sturdy trees
Frosty,frosty grasses
Coldy,coldy houses
Freely,freely chimneys
Clingy,clingy doors
Wintry,wi...

Schoolgirl At the Window

...Such a dull life, as permits
One for to dream through!
In budding to be admired
Warmly kissed, desired

Magnolia reflects, wintered
For shut-in worldview
Stilly rapt, what for beauty's
Growin...

Quandary

...Trisha rubbed her eyes in disbelief... 

"Was that real?"

"Isn't that Aarav?"... "And who is that girl seen with him..?"

She peeked carefully from behind the tall dense bamboo trees in the pa...

French Royal Garden

...Composed in their femininity
Compliant with the slighest
Urge in that delightsomeness of
Miming a bloom, wind-caught.
No less radiantly stately fraught
With one's plucking interest.

Then I ca...

Willy Milly Dilly

...I know a boy named Willy Wolly Way
Parties all night and sleeps all day.
He is a boozer. He is a shmoozer.
Like a tomcat,he must stray.
He is a layer.He is a player.
I know a boy named Willy Wol...

Of Lies Told That Once Destroyed Innocent Girls' Lives

...https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/the-convergence-of-the-twain/

The Convergence of the Twain
                                                       ---  By Thomas Hardy
(Lines on the loss of th...

My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii

...My most popular poems on the Internet (II)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a l...

Keepers of Day and Night

...From the sublime blue
He, having done his work
Tired and sweating
Sank into the west sea
To have a lave
At the gong of six.

It began to darken
Without the presence of him.
And people and an...

Doggerel I

...Doggerel I or Nonsense Verse

A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch

Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ dec...

Sonnets Xcviii-C

...Sonnets XCVIII-CII

Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch

for the Demiurge aka Yahweh/Jehovah 

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the...

The Sea

...Looking at the calm sea on a sunny day,
I thought of schooling fishes swims around the bay, 
Maybe they are happily shoaling with their friend,
And joking around while following the trail end,

...

Gemini Woman Brings Home Cancer Man

...Gemini met Cancer on a summer day
She quite frankly took his breath away
He thought things were done in male or pink
She showed him another way to think 

She gave him a wink and came right over...

Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity

...Limericks I - Relatives and Relativity

The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch

Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not ...

Various Heresies

...If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch

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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch

Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in...

Limericks

...Limericks
by Michael R. Burch



Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch

There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle ...

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