Funny Verse Poems

Was I maudlin over our breakup? For a minute.

If I think of you now, it’s like a slideshow of unflattering images.

At the time, my breakup...

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Wonderworks
by Michael R. Burch

History’s
mysteries
abound
& astound,
found
(profound)
the whole earth ’round,
even if mostly
underground.


The Procrastinator’s Creed
by Michael R. Burch

It’s always, “Tomorrow, I’ll do it.”
Work? I eschew it.
I never collect...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VII

Fair Elle was an eely lover
who squiggled beneath the covers ...
She was hard to pin down!
When I did it, she’d...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE VI

On the Horns of a Dilemma (I)
by Michael R. Burch

Love has become preposterous
for the over-endowed rhinoceros:
when he meets the right...

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LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V

Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise
by Michael R. Burch

I wanted to be good as gold,
but being good, as I’ve...

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The give and take
The push and pull
The funny outtakes
The cunning fakes
The mental pirouettes
your ballet dancers are all wet
Baptised in the blood vessels of your mind...

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Those soft tendrils of skin grazing my being
Taking in my form whole
Accepting me as I was
Using me as I was

When did love turn to deceit...

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Fake transformation, 
You can 
Always laugh when you keep 
seeing  some people  
Who take loans 
To transform themselves. 
Imagine taking 
Loans to buy
Hair waves, 
Bleaching...

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I told you I love you, but never how much,
I said sorry, but never how deep,
And also thank you, but perhaps not how sincere.

You knew...

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On the early news

        It was reported 
          ...

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I have been wondering a bit of late

Am I indeed in fact funny

Or

Am I really actually just a clown 

Big shoes to fill

Either way

The joke...

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THE DOLLAR STORE BUNNY

I chit chat with a saint at church
telling her how my grandson spent
Kindergarten online. This will follow
his class all the way through
to...

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why was i even born
my teachers like me
my friends like me
even think i’m funny

but my mom hates me
she hates me
she thinks i’m a burden
and that...

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Within me,
Strength.
I feel it now.

How wonderful.

I feel its potential.
Driving me
To better myself.

How funny.

That this should come,
Shortly after
The trigger....

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I like to pick a song and put it on repeat
Immerse myself in it
I'm not sure there's anything to learn from this exploration
My recent micro...

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