Funny World Poems

I took my new friend from Mars,
to the store not to the bars.
He was accompanied by his little green dog,
many thought he was a funny...

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Billions of galaxies,
Plenty of planets,
Moons and suns,
Unfathomable stars,
Bountiful black holes,
Drastic darkness,
Yet on this esoteric earth
My minute head is
Filled with frivolous 
And quizzical questions,
“What should I...

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Love women for all they do.
Do not kick them around like a used pair of shoes. 
Do not discard them when you are done with...

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Time is a funny thing,
time does not always seem real.
Governments and their rulers,
come and go.
Some are good to their people and country,
while others only destroy.
Can...

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This Cowboy came into this world with nothing.
So when you said you were leaving, I said
" Fine."
Now, I hope I Find a little Darling.
That can...

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Write on paper or computer,
my ink will run away.
Thoughts and feelings,
are set on fire to be told.
Maybe true or maybe false,
words will write the tale.

Write...

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A is for Australia, full of weird beasts,
Where even the cute ones can bite you at least.

B is for Brazil, where football is life,
And people...

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Gravity makes things go down,
to the ground like a funny clown.
Missing the trash can,
now on the floor plan.
Gravity will always be around....

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alien armpits 
dripping shimmering sweat orbs
on the crop circle  
...

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every animal
insect, bird
every human
in the world
every thing
of living being
upon this one day 
did a jump
when all just jumped
the same moment 
then the thump
of the almighty...

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Watch the news
Any of them
Biden tries to make sense
Trump pushes the limits
Gaza wants a Big Mac
Israel wants revenge
Elections are just funny
The world is short a...

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Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams

POEMS

Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes
from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus”
by Michael R. Burch

Every corona has a...

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I don’t have a basement
there’s no hills here to run to
no caves for miles around

haven’t stockpiled tins of beans
or tomatoes
or peach slices

panic buying hasn’t been...

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scramble the bots there’s a new weirdo in town
using up the sun, talking un-abbreviatedly odd 
some skin looking healthier than the rest of us,
us, junkies...

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Oh, life was good, the days were sunny
Every taunt, every insult seemed funny,
I loved all my foes and friends to a fault
and ate my dessert...

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