Mike Michaels Poems

Blue Sky, Blue Sky, please don't be obscured
Your saphire beauty makes me assured
That whatever misfortunes fate has procured
I am against glumness and sadness inured
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I was privileged to meet the Universe one find and pleasant day,
I must confess, it took me by surprise, so I had very little to say.
It was vast, deep and mysterious, it beheld me with indifference
and filled me with the sense that I overestimate my own significance.
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I love you ravioli you’re so fine to eat
But why ravioli are you so hard to heat?
Your sauce steams, pasta glistens and you look ready to consume
But then I find that your filling is colder than I presume
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I like to take a stroll sometimes in the evening
Just before it's dark, as the day is leaving
And so it was, on one of these occasions
That I was accosted by a gang of pugnacious young caucasians
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Plummeting daylight meteor
Hurtling from on high
Avian arrow
Let loose from Apollo’s bow
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An unkempt man approached me one dark evening
'In pursuit', he said, 'of a favour'
'A drink' he explained, but I was unsure of his meaning
When he specified it should be of a refined yet peculiar flavour
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If anyone wants to google the original lyrics, the first line was approximately 'Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz'

Sorry Janis......
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Drosophila, Drosophila, there's just no stopping ya
Just when I think I've seen none of you of late
And that therefore, there must be no more of you, to exterminate
You flit by me while I'm sat watching TV
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My apologies to all you members of the gentler gender for the last line...'beasts and people' just didn't fit....


Once more our star appears to dim
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