The Lost Canary
...There was a carney, I knew as Larry.
He lived with a knife thrower, named Sherry.
Sherry loved her yellow canary,
and trusted its care while gone to Barry.
While she was gone, the bird somehow ...
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Categories:
thrower, bird, friend, funny, humorous,
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:
thrower, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Poetic Arts
...
Terminology:
Crystal booths in a nocturnal snow.
significant downpours of shedding stars.
This said, feel free to scatter, scrabble or mash.
Words are fungible,
many still believe that poe...
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Categories:
thrower, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Best use of my time
...
I began playing this game with myself
So at any moment you are holding something
How would you kill an intruder
I mean some of them are obvious
Throw the tea then use the cups like enamel
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Categories:
thrower, poems,
Form: Free verse
Michael Landon
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Actor and filmmaker, Michael Landon -
his shows were addictions folks couldn’t abandon!
As a javelin thrower, he could have gone far.
Once injured, he changed paths and became a TV star.
On “...
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Categories:
thrower, celebrity,
Form: Clerihew
The Powerful and the Powerless
...The Powerful & The Powerless
A tiny girl looks up
and stares at the sky
She hears loud noise and sirens
But she doesn’t understand why.
She is still so very tiny
That she can barely talk.
...
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Categories:
thrower, power,
Form: Ballad
Dorothy Doo Wrong
...I have worked in ten schools as a school counselor.
I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years.
This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator.
Let’s call her Dorothy Doo W...
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Categories:
thrower, work,
Form: Narrative
Dorothy Doo Wrong
...I have worked in ten schools as a school counselor.
I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years.
This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator.
Let’s call her Dorothy Doo W...
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Categories:
thrower, school,
Form: Narrative
Children's Poems V
...Children's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. ...
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Categories:
thrower, child, childhood, children, mother,
Form: Rhyme
All Twelve Apostles: A Tyburn
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PETER or SIMON the YOUNGER
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slower
lower
grower
thrower
Christ calls~"Have faith,"~slower~lower~rock
Build church~confuse~grower~thrower~flock
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Categories:
thrower, allusion, analogy, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Tyburn
War Dog
...In thirty-eight my German Shepherd, loved to learn new tricks
He’d run and catch them in mid air whenever I threw sticks
No other German Shepherd dog could ever hope to beat
The way my Benji caugh...
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Categories:
thrower, dog, hero, war,
Form: Rhyme
Best Sports Poems Iii
...These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part III
For Jack Nicklaus, at the 1987 Open
by Michael R. Burch
When you were young
every putt was makeable
and every dream remarkable; ...
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Categories:
thrower, america, baseball, basketball, boxing
Form: Rhyme
A Javelin Thrower and Disappointment
...In his heart was an intense glow
After his seeming superb show:
An unsurpassed Philistine Throw
Until whistled “A Disallowing No”
That nearly javelin blood flow
Stopped from his head to toe
And...
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Categories:
thrower, anxiety, business, career, money,
Form: Rhyme
End of October
...October
Mowing over
Buy blower
Flame thrower
Leaves smolder
Smoky odor
Feeling bolder
Getting older
written on a gloomy, rainy
day, October 25, 2021...
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Categories:
thrower, october,
Form: Monorhyme
A Book I'M Reading
...At a very young age, he was 'called' and ushered to
the forefront, having very little choice in the matter.
There is much to be said about 'the call', but perhaps
a little taste and a soft touch a...
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Categories:
thrower, christian, god, judgement, love,
Form: Verse
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