Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Smoking, anxiety, obesity
Burns was once challenged to writeA poem on a new object or siteSo he began to describe what he in his mind sawA calf, that grew as he on paper did..
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On Smoking And Obesity
Some years agoWhen one's anxiety was aglowWould light up a smoke and take puffThen slowly exhaling, was enoughTo release the tensions withinAnd go on..
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On Riding Tigers
When riding a tiger in the huntYou learn to dismountVery carefully so thatYou don't become the tiger's lunch.Such it is with Wall Street todayAs they..
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On Reading Thomas A. Bonnick's Voice In The Wilderness
Like the tree that fallsAnd no one hears the resounding echos,Did it actually fallAnd was there no sound at all?Such it is when TAB writesA poem that..
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On Ray Lucero's Poor Math Skills
Four plus one does not equal fiveOf Presidents alive.This isn't a math quiz but a reality checkOf Ray Lucero who counted four white and one blackAnd..
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On Old Age (As Viewed By Hermann Hesse)
Old age is a stage in our lives,and like all other stagesit has a face of its own,its own atmosphere and temperature,its own joys and miseries.We old..
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On Old Age - A Poem To Ivor Hogg
Once again I stop to thinkIs there a reason for all this stink,And then remember it's the dishes in the sinkThat were left when I went to take a..
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On Memory
Peanuts in their shells, asleepFor the next harvest so to keepAnd in the fall after the tendingBountiful harvest is intended.So it is that memories..
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On Life's Simple Pleasures
One need only to experience the eventThat is by Nature, the lingering scentComing to those near and farThat think only of the tar.The tar that so..
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On Liberated Women
T’is sad, t’is true,There is really nothing new.For in Hudibras of oldThe use of a bull’s pizzle is told*.Taken by the lady of the hourGives her..
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On Google Rankings
In days of yore(Actually two years shy of three score)Was a family by name of Gore.Being good citizens of TennesseeThey practiced a 'method' of..
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On Fugitive Poems
A fugitive poem is like being rescuedBy a fireman from a houseWhen there is no fireAnd when there is no house.Or, being saved when tiedTo the..
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On Criticism Of Poets By Other Poets
Critics of other's poetry need be remindedThat it is not a new sport intended,But one practiced years beforeWhen the other's ox, they intend to..
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On Considering Lew Webster’s Old Age
Seasons of the yearMake one’s memory clearOf events favorable in the pastWhile sorrow’s are but trying ghost.Welcome the coming seasonWith “come what..
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On Being There*
The senses awaken,Six in all to be taken.In the first burst of lightOn the screen; dim then brightA pattern, at first lost in the mazeEscapes as from..
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On Being Gay
How I wish others would not say;And misuse the word, gayFor in other times and placesGay had the meaning of happiness.Now for some reason unknownIt's..
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On Beauty As Seen By Dee
Sing out loud and longFor the praise is put where it does belongOn a subject that I professIs one about which I know less.But if you believe as you..
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Omar's Syndrome
There's another one, over thereSee how he's acting, oh so queer.Seems confused and not so sureCan't decide which way to turn or...Lately there have..
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Omar And The Courtesan
We have Japanese prints hanging on the wall.They’re there to be enjoyed by one and all,And with furniture placement dear,It was decided to place the..
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Old Umbrella Tail
Old Umbrella TailDoesn't wail,He just clawsAt the coversGetting recognitionFor attentionTo go outside -If the doors opened wide.Then pausing to..
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Old Shaky
He's famous for miles around,The only barber in this town.Gives haircuts to men and boysSometimes even to those other-wise.Has a method that few can..
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Old Man Smell
The Nose KnowsIn the elevator in the midst of winterOne doesn’t expect the smell to lingerBut there it is for all to senseThe presence of a chemical..
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Of Welsh Rabbit - It Loveth Tenebrosity
(Anonymous,1847, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Welsh Rabbits, A Parody)The common opinion of the Welsh Rabbitconceits that it is a species of Cuniculus..
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Ode To Timmie Geithner
Don’t say “We”, unless you have a toad in your pocketFor you’ll soon find something amiss under the blanketThat you so carefully share with the toads..
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