Best Exceed Poems


Does Your Desire For Freedom Exceed Your Capacity To Endure Pain

Freedom of Expression is Only Free to The Members of The Dominant Class, Race, Religion Or Segment Of Society.


For The Rest of US Payments May be made in Blood, Tears, Rights or Civil Liberties.


I am a Brother of a Different Race, Ethnicity, Color, Language and Creed, Though I Can Identify With Your Journey.


For My People Walk a Similar Road.


We have Known Slavery, Whips, Chains and the Continued Attempts to Silence Our Collective Voice(s).


This Road is Long, the Path is Steep, and the Friends willing to travel with you are Few, But I would say to be Encouraged.


You Will One Day Get There, If You Are Willing to Continue the Journey, Endure the Race, and Aim towards the Higher Calling.



Though Water, Time Zone(s), and Distance May Separate US, Know That If Your Pursuit is Positive, Intention(s) Are Honest Regarding the Freedom of All Citizens, and your Motives are Sincere and Pure, Then I Will Stand With You.


The World is Watching, Documenting and Praying For your Positive and Peaceful Resolution.




Best Regards



Paul Cumberbatch (Author, December 12, 2020)

When I Exceed My Own Limit

in poison nectar is not there
                                   in nectar poison is not there
                                     both are things impartial
                                           i take i suffer 
                                   when i exceed my own limit
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The sun seemed to go down a few degrees
Behind the clouds, it cast its beams

The radiating light gave clouds uncoating of white 
Sun tickled their fancy as they laughted with delight

The heat of the day approaches with speed
Soon outside will be uncomfortable to exceed

Life's duty calls to come inside, get busy with work
Do the jobs desinated to the call of wife  

Couplets...Well, sort of ..Just hastily written on the porch


Retirement the Work Thief

On retirement all The Due proceed,
Because cars don’t their speed exceed;
In their pet jobs hope to succeed,
Sometimes sensible warnings don’t heed.
A solution to the riddles of idleness,
And checking of their feelings of awkwardness:
Relieved cops a vigilante floating,
Ex-civil servants at the likes of Bureaux gloating,
Former dispensers, stocked drug stores running,
Home-sent vets, neigbours sick animals and the mourning,

A sender to early graves,
Of those who more swollen envelopes crave,
For attendance to their mounting needs,
That can’t be handled by what simply feeds.
Usher of fuller reunion with family,
A picking of fresh interest in being homely;
Our resting of our long besieged bones,
In our houses, now The Best of Thrones.

So, the Retired from his darling job,
Is not at all being asked to sob,
He having his service year completed,
And his efficiency surely depleted;
The age for a compulsory lay-off clocked,
For which more busying of self is true progress blocked;
A life to be lived has gone down,
For past stewardship, a dignifying gown,
Ageing men hostages to funny diseases,
Only off and on enjoying lucky releases.

Hence, managements forward their goodbye paper,
In this seeing a pursuit of The Safer,
To all retirees “wisely stay at home”,
Save those it is their nature to roam,
Anywhere they choose by all means to surface,
Provided it is not a very hectic office.

Not honey-sweet what the retired swallows,
Sometimes in court challenging it like the gallows, 
A doubly confirmed injustice form some adversary,
Via a tall order, neither timely nor necessary;
Always a building resolve to contain some mischief,
And a mission to save one’s job from a work thief!

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I’ve got my hand in the fire 
getting high on how it burns;
I feel every ounce of it,
screw the comfortably numb;
Soothed by your rushing water,
pain’s fall bridges to pleasure;
You exceed expectations.

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