Baseball Writing Poems

You left me all alone again in the therapist office we went over all the scenarios what we would say but there you were stunned...

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What Is Happening?

Yes, the little Genie asked
What is happening?
Children aren’t being taught
To tell time,
They can’t look at the clock and
Know whether it’s one o’clock
Or it’s...

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Reuniting with old friends is always lots of fun,
Because it’s been years since we’ve seen each other.
Back at the ballpark again for baseball in the...

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Summer is coming up to the plate
Major League baseball is in full swing,
The new graduates we congratulate
We will soon say goodbye to spring.

Time for family...

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Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch



Smoke
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts...

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All Things Can Tempt Me

All things can tempt me - my pen remains quiet,
Spellbound by downpours - thunder in riots;
A walk with the dog –...

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GRAN’S LAST MESSAGE

Seems smelly old Gran wrote a note before she died the second time, it was found on her when the army picked up...

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Epigrams II

Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
 
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Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch

Procreation
is at first great sweaty recreation,
then—long, long...

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Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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I made a firm commitment long ago
	to read great novels frequently, not just
	when I had time to kill or took a class
	in college, for then...

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NATURE'S CALL: MAKE ME THY                    ...

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I think I will take a walk
Trying to rid this writers block
Maybe I will stop and watch a hawk
Or some seagulls flying in their flock

Perhaps...

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8/27/16



Just had shrimp and grits
Beside scrambled eggs whipped up with a whisk

Been a long time since
I've had some fish and chips


Went on many different trips
Some...

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"I Would Be....WOOD"


   "Knock On Me!" or more correct "Knock On WOOD!" You've probably said that and rapped your knuckles against me while...

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Can one not speak in verse to the page?
 As if it were Darwin instead of David? 
 The words would flow better, 
 and...

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