Sweeteners Poems - Poems about Sweeteners

...Maybe it was that last biscuit layered with butter and jam or could it have been those sodas only around nine cans Never just one bucket of extra crispy southern fried chicken could make you feel ......Read the rest...

...It wasn't much of a dream One of comeuppance and vengeful acts Having been taken for a fool, I heard the truth when the phone was failed to be hung up (dream), I am annoying (true bit) but the drea......Read the rest...

...Poetry and popcorn. I'll take mine warm, popping over a slow burner, not with hot air. Buttered up, salty and full of fat. Poetry and chocolate. I'll take mine sweet, not sugar-coated......Read the rest...

...Sometimes for no apparent rhyme or reason A sort of sinking feeling dampens the mind and heart Not exactly, but somewhat similar to a nervous breakdown Everything appears twisted, strangulated, an......Read the rest...

...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay yet from the east caravans again fill its pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph into mult......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break III These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha......Read the rest...

...Poems about Things that Break I These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old habi......Read the rest...

...Sonnets LXXI-LXXX Because You Came to Me by Michael R. Burch Because you came to me with sweet compassion and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair, I do not love you after any fashio......Read the rest...

...Raining again, paper, pen, switch on the kettle, sigh again. Bread in the toaster, egg in the pan, Dear sir or Madam, I don't think I can write this missive, explaining circumstance, it's too ne......Read the rest...

...Three sweeteners please And add two packets of sugar A dab of caramel silk and two shots of chocolate milk. The woman glared at me. This is McDonald’s she said, not a Starbucks. You want all t......Read the rest...

...The days of our youth now seem so long ago and in this generational truth I only want to know would you bring me roses? as you did back then when love bloomed in spring throws and it's jus......Read the rest...

...No Getting Back to Normal, a 9-11 Poem by Michael R. Burch for the survivors of 9-11 Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel; add artificial swee......Read the rest...

...Break Time by Michael R. Burch for those who lost loved ones on 9-11 Intrude upon my grief; sit; take a spot of milk to cloud the blackness that you feel; add artificial sweeteners to concea......Read the rest...

...I started out with a few sweeteners in my coffee And half and half And then the experiments began I am up to five sweeteners A hot chocolate packet Cinnamon and a pudding mix I should exile......Read the rest...

...He was my henchman, my minion, my stooge, and we both liked it that way. But then he moved away with a new girlfriend, and became her henchman, Leaving me to fend for myself. And after all I had t......Read the rest...