Stools Poems

Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited

...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited

Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.

A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories: stools, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHA HA HONDA MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBANDS OBSESSED AGENT DANITA DELMONT AGENT

...MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBANDS STABLE OF CORRUPT CITY OFFICIALS HE ADORED SLEEPING WITH HUDING OUT IN THE RAMADA INN THESE FEMALE AGENTS WERE TREACGEROUSLY JEALOUS OF OUR MARRIAGE THEY BEGAN IN TAMPA STRIP C...
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Categories: stools, allah,
Form: Naat


Premium MemberA World Ends

...And they would strut around the fire
Then sat upon their stools,
And argued long, in learned terms,
Who wore the better jewels!
But then there was a man about
Who none had seen before,
And thou...
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Categories: stools, death, fantasy, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberConcrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep

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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”

Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories: stools, muse,
Form: Narrative

Episode one - No limes on Tatooine - A new hope

...I’m drunk, but you’re beautiful,
a line I used to rehearse.
The Dreamers’ artistic longing felt noble,
but it came with a curse.
I bought the ticket when I didn’t know better from worse.
Now I’v...
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Categories: stools, best friend, crazy, drink,
Form: Rhyme


Take it or Not

...If this I may
I shall say
That only a fool
listen to a drunkard on a stool

If thy see your worth
In such fools
Thy might just perch 
on such stools

Then some would say
From such a mouth
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Categories: stools, class, community, corruption, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Speaking Your Mind

...Speaking Your Mind

Every time you 
don’t speak your 
mind these things happen:
snails do 
aerobics, flamingos update their 
details on
important apps, palm trees spill 
out Amish hats, comb...
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Categories: stools, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHungry Sparrows

...I thought I was retired until given a bag of wild bird feed
using my red bird bath I placed in a blue bowl full of the seed
Not long and a lone sparrow flew into the bowl
soon joined by a flock of...
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Categories: stools, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membereight doves on a wire

...eight doves on a wire
together
friends on bar stools...
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Categories: stools, bird, friendship, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberLadies Nite At Clyde's Bar

...News flash
Huge bash

Big fight
Last night

Clyde's Bar
Bizarre

War zone
Chairs thrown

Snouts poked
Gals choked

Eyes blacked
Ribs cracked

Hair snatched
Backs scratched

Throa...
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Categories: stools, conflict, humorous,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberI am a cartoonist and painter

...I draw cartoons daily
tonight I started with a Chinese geisha woman
an elf house, flowers a frog, faerie, elf
a yum yum tree, mushroom stools
bunny, apples, a Scottish highlands dancer
what else...
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Categories: stools, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCheese Wars

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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...
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Categories: stools, allusion, conflict, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membermy doctor said i have one eye bigger than the other

..."food passes downwards into the oesophagus, 
then further down into the stomach, 
where gastric juices break it down into 
what can only be described as 
a porridge-like consistency

the then p...
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Categories: stools, appreciation, drink,
Form: Free verse

Fair Game

...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS

Fair Game
by Michael R. Burch

At the Tennessee State Fair,
the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables
with mocking button eyes,
knowing the p...
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Categories: stools, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoetry's Soup

...Stumbling along the worn down pine,
Clamoring like a babe against floor and a table leg
I found the stool to shame all other stools.

Propping my bony bottom atop
Like a laggardly old lion,
Don...
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Categories: stools, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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