Epigrams II

Brief Fling
by Michael R. Burch

“Epigram”

means cram,

then scram!

Midnight Stairclimber
by Michael R. Burch

 

Procreation

is at first great sweaty recreation,

then (long, long after the sex dies)

the source of endless exercise.

Sex Hex

by Michael R. Burch

Love's full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).

 

The One True Poem
by Michael R. Burch

 

for Beth

 

Love was not meaningless ...

nor your embrace, nor your kiss.

 

And though every god proved a phantom,

still you were divine to your last dying atom ...

 

So that when you are gone

and, yea, not a word remains of this poem,

 

even so,

We were One.

 

The Poem of Poems

by Michael R. Burch

 

for Beth

 

This is my Poem of Poems, for you.

Every word ineluctably true:

I love you.

  
The Whole of Wit

by Michael R. Burch

 

for Richard Moore

 

If brevity is the soul of wit

then brevity and levity 

are the whole of it.

 

Here and Hereafter

by Michael R. Burch

 

Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...

wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

 

Meal Deal

by Michael R. Burch

 

Love is a splendid ideal

(at least till it costs us a meal).

 

Piecemeal

by Michael R. Burch

 

And so it begins -- the ending.

The narrowing veins, the soft tissues rending.

Your final solution is pending.

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare

by Michael R. Burch

@mikerburch

a tweet

by any other name

would be as fleet! Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to Shakespeare

@mikerburch

(Michael R. Burch) Remember, doggonit, heroic verse crowns the Shakespearean sonnet! So if you intend to write a couplet, please do it on the doublet!

 

Redefinitions

 

Faith: falling into the same old claptrap.�"Michael R. Burch

Religion: the ties that blind.�"Michael R. Burch

Baseball: lots of spittin’ mixed with some hittin’.�"Michael R. Burch

Trickle down economics: an especially pungent golden shower.�"Michael R. Burch

Poetry: the art of finding the right word at the right time.�"Michael R. Burch

Wayne Gretzky was pure skill poured into skates.�"Michael R. Burch