UNMENTIONABLES
...In this life you have to be prepared for unmentionables,
don't pretend they don't exist, can't have daisies, sunshine
all the time, my imagination or is it a female problem?
Guys are tough, don't ...
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Categories:
unmentionables, analogy, change, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Chapter 84-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Quest
...Date: December 2040
Damian is on the phone speaking
With architects. He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
Soon Afterwards he went
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream...
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Categories:
unmentionables, africa, age, allusion, beauty,
Form: Alliteration
I Am: Part Ii -- Uncovered
...I am whatever where ever
I am all Directions
All circumstances every condition
For lack of a better word
I am the notion within the motion
Let us move mountains let us
Start the shouting on...
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Categories:
unmentionables, creation, granddaughter, humanity, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Satisfied Cat
...Satisfied cat can sleep at the drop of a hat.
She can squeeze herself into those, this and that.
We find her asleep this morning in a goldfish bowl.
She is snoring away, like a fisherman without a...
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Categories:
unmentionables, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 7
...Tom: Well, do tell? But like I said, I’m not a stranger. I’m a businessman; and more than that. Why, I could be just like a brother to you if you’d let me. Besides, I studied music once, too, but tha...
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Categories:
unmentionables, allegory,
Form: Prose
Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Mak...
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Categories:
unmentionables, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Love Poems Ii
...LOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations...
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Categories:
unmentionables, desire, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Box of Socks
...I searched the store with glee;
Going on a shopping spree
To find a gift for you from me
To place beneath the Christmas tree
The busy shoppers I did pass;
What should I get? I had to ask
So m...
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Categories:
unmentionables, christmas, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Haiku Variations
...Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch
This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:
Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch
Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!
Ho...
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Categories:
unmentionables, autumn, farewell, seasons, snow,
Form: Haiku
Unmentionables
...In church, kneel down, stand up, give the priest room.
Week to week, “fruit of the vine,” his voice booms.
Mistake a doozy.
Priest’s a bit woozy.
Pro...
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Categories:
unmentionables, humor,
Form: Limerick
Litany of Cat Complaints
...LITANY OF CAT COMPLAINTS
Why so glum Rusty? Offered Max as a tentative
One-no-trump opener.
Well, it’s all down to you guys -
Rusty offered a thought,“They mix us all up ...
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Categories:
unmentionables, cat, good night,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 1
...The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Mich...
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Categories:
unmentionables, family, heart, love, mother
Form: Haiku
Love Has a Southern Flavor
...Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangle...
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Categories:
unmentionables, desire, longing, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
S I N A
...The zoo’s a peep show for kids —
excoriation from the
Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.
Bare chested is fine
but clothe their behinds.
The tailors stay busy
snipping and sewing
anima...
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Categories:
unmentionables, animal, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Talk In Small Doses, Small Talk, Safe
...Family get togethers are so much fun
provided you stick to the rules.
Greet everyone with a smile.
Get them talking about themselves.
Don't compare nor gloat.
Set the timer to 'it will be ov...
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Categories:
unmentionables, abuse, celebration, family,
Form: Grook
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