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Unmentionables Poems - Poems about Unmentionables

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

Premium MemberChapter 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



Premium MemberI 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

Premium MemberSatisfied 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

Premium MemberShould 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.


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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

Premium MemberUnmentionables

...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

Premium MemberS 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

Premium MemberTalk 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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