Thwack Poems - Poems about Thwack

Tailwinds

...
Life’s walls remain as high as the clouds
 Covered by shrouds of thunderclouds
   Looking up I awe in vast wonder
    Mental impasse envelopes by the hour
     Hour after hour
      I grow mor...

Echoes Of The Silent Shore

...One cold November, in the not-too-distant soon 
the echoes of these shores will ever silent be
as fewer come each year to where their pals were strewn;
on Omaha, among the rest of war’s debris.

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Dark Juane

...Sandy sat staring down at the cracked photoed frame. Two little smiling princesses playing in the mud. She loves traveling in her dreams, imagining glowing and bickering in Juane's sweet sweet nectar...

THE CORRUPT GUTTER

...There’s a constant hammering 
Alongside my bedroom window 
Repercussions of a corrupt gutter 

The maddening drain 
Obstinately and persistently has refused
All rehabilitation efforts  

Ther...

Adam West

...ZAP: I declare that he was the best
ZONK: For no-one could beat Adam West
On TV most nights
Blue-grey vest and tights
THUNK: And a bat right there on his chest

...

A Giant Thwack

...While waiting for a parking place,
Our handyman was stumped
To hear a giant thwack 
Upon his roof, which something bumped.

The “something” was a squirrel
Which had fallen from a tree.
His fir...

Children's Poems I

...These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.



The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy

There is a child...

Twenty first century civilization gone I askew

...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...

Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical Weltanschauung

...Mine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung

Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid  
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent em...

A Slit On a Rock

...A burg in a vale, 
Amassed stones and rocks as bulwark,
Assembled stones and rocks as a stack,
Stones and rocks stopping the waters from losing the track. 

Waters thrusting behind the concrete ...

Way

...It's straight, I think, and gladly start,
Faith and hope and trust fill my heart;
Flora and fauna and fields fresh,
Climbers and creepers crawl enmesh...!

Trails with bushes and choke and block...

Intentional

...Today I discovered that God
made the sky so high so that
all the big and small, beautiful and ugly
birds don’t thwack their heads on
the ceiling as they fly and swim about.
& that makes...

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; ...

The Rulers

...Following the first thwack
we deduced that distance was
limited primarily
to unpredictable bursts of anger,
arbitrary chastisement factors.

The rule, all of its dozen commandments
plus the ex...

A Bee

...a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top black bottom
hurtling down the hig...

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