Epigrams II

Epigrams II

A Poem by Michael R. Burch

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
 
for Beth
 
This is my Poem of Poems, for you.
Every word ineluctably true:
I love you.
  
The Whole of Wit
 
for Richard Moore
 
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
 
Here and Hereafter
 
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
 
Meal Deal
 
Love is a splendid ideal
(at least till it costs us a meal).
 
Piecemeal
 
And so it begins -- the ending.
The narrowing veins, the soft tissues rending.
Your final solution is pending.

Fleet Tweet: Apologies to Shakespeare
@mikerburch

a tweet
by any other name
would be as fleet! Fleet Tweet II: Further Apologies to Shakespeare (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


© 2022 Michael R. Burch


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Added on December 12, 2019
Last Updated on May 10, 2022
Tags: Epigram, Aphorism, Wit, Satire, Irony, Epitaph