Turnstiles Poems - Poems about Turnstiles

HOWL IF YOU LOVE ME!

...It started out with one good boy,
A prehistoric, funny, little plushie toy,
His name was Gary, quite refined,
A murder floof with teeth aligned (yikes)!
They dressed him up in bowtie class,
He p...

Rush Hour

...I clock in my own breath,
Minutes stack like folding chairs.
My limbs queue for permission,
Time herds me through its turnstiles.
We all wear the same silence—
Pressed suits, creased with wantin...

The Craft

...
(A lone voice speaks to a crowd of poets)

You do know everyone has their own magical style 

A style filled with such wild illustrious promises and kaleidoscope's of such deep vivid depths

...

Artificial Iris

...


"Artificial Iris"


Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar, 
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pa...

Upon Waking

...


“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like d...

New Pathways

...Tollgates on redemption road
calling out my name

Turnstiles of a fated past ...
exiting the blame

Looking back all fares are paid
new pathways to begin

Eyes now closing, heart at rest
— ...

The Animal Orphanage

...Its the sight waft of rotting flesh
That first hits you
While the smartly dressed
Smiling warden ushers you in,
Through narrow turnstiles

There are rows of enclosures
A maze of them, a maze o...

Click Vs Clink

...It already seems so long ago
    transactions went
      'clink, clink, clink'

  Now that we all buy online
    our 'turnstiles' go
      'click, click, click'    

  The first way requires ...

Shout For Joy, Dance and Sing

...I wake up, to celebrate the morning
    It's gonna be, a beautiful day
  Birds are singing, without warning
    I'll take my pills, last night or yesterday

  You know I've got, no patience for ...

Western Springs

...
 High-ho! High-ho! High-ho!
  it’s off to the pub and gig we go
 Willy Wonka ticket stubs in our hand
  on our way to see the band
 Climb the fence, jump the turnstiles
  into the crowd do...

Parallex View

...Night light star spirals
Galaxy streetlight full moons
      Dark matter fuse box
      Planetary plentitudes
local groups enter turnstiles...

Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv

...Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.



Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch

If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.

I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten...

Rejection Slips 3

...Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting presen...

El Dorado

...El Dorado
by Michael R. Burch

It's a fine town, a fine town,
though its alleys recede into shadow;
it's a very fine town for those who are searching
for an El Dorado.

Because the lighting i...

Conundrum

...Conundrum 

This confounding conundrum,
This continuing act of untying the pesky knots of existence,
This conniving, beating whirlwind of ever-swirling stresses,
Again served up on a plate mixed...

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