Best Excess Poems

Nothing in Excess
(the second Delphic maxim of Apollo)



A mixture of the brute and the divine
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I met Peter for a blind date
His bad habits I REALLY hate
He sat picking his nose
Finding fluff from his toes
Then both of these items he ate!

His mother accompanied us …
She’d sat next to me on the bus
Told me Peter was ‘pure’
And to be doubly sure
She’d...

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An ardent longing for the finer things ...
Vodka from eggs - bedrooms with wings.

Bugatti's and coffees topped with gold,
Armani, Brioni, and true absinthe, old.

Bottega Veneta or a Lanvin wool coat,
Yachts that are really just mansions that float.

Valets and limos and luxe high-rise suites,
Beds dressed in...

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Eating sugary foods
each day is known to cause 
enamel damage; so 
ensure you brush your teeth!
Eroded teeth can give
excruciating pain …
extraction could follow!


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Freezer burn is a luxury;
the very notion that food,
plentiful enough
to sit idly in storage
long enough
to become encased in crystal
casually tossed;
no longer within the range 
of usefulness

A concept
so completely foreign to me,
unheard of until
as a preteen was mentioned 
while visiting a friend. 


~pentopaper, 2015...

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"Tales of tales of giving reasons"

"A centipede under the bed,
 Bring a stick to beat",

"All the sticks in feces"

"Go to river to wash",

"River remains full of fish", 

"Bring a net to catch the fish",

"All the nets are torn"?

"Bring a needle to stitch the net",

"All the...

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Excess of anything is bad – God has excess!...

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The Odour of Excess.

Sitting together,
smiling benignly,

sipping coffee,
flaked with 24-carat gold-leaf shavings,

their empty souls,
always on the prowl,

to sate,
the latest cravings.

"sell all your jewellery, and give to the poor",
revolutionary words, uttered by His son,
Jesus of Nazareth.

Well, we all know what became of him,
when we see God's Sacrificial...

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define its perimeters, suffer by them ~
     I don't know how to get out
  bewitched and momentarily carefree 
       I felt the need to linger with the energy
   storms push you sideways
angst...

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Sue was putting on weight
at an alarming rate
Was it down to fate…
or too much food on her plate!

She got asked by a mate
when was her due date
But Sue’s monthly was not late,
at her friend Sue got quite irate!

Her friend’s comment made Sue instigate
a course on...

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The owl can see with wide and narrow view
Focuses  both poets and artists knew.
The broad sweep on the canvas makes a place
Where details and designs can have their space.

What God endowed the owl with such excess;
When all her progeny enjoy such   bliss?
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     Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
     Custom of one equates her eight hour day


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It can't have been the scallops
Or the rump of Islay lamb,
Washed down with white Rioja
Followed by sweet meringue.
It wasn't the skate au poivre
Or smoked salmon canapes
Nor garlic stuffed green olives
Or the double chocolate glaze.
The ruby red barolo 
Is surely not to blame
(It was so very...

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it's the love of you i see in every wonder



AP: 1st place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on August 18, 2022...

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I opened the door
and let the flood roll in
all I said was how are you
a plain simple answer
would have sufficed
but no- here it was
the whole truckload
of ungodly manure
dumped at my feet
piled so high up
my nose and ears 
were full of it
not once but twice
and come...

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