Best Forebears Poems

MUM  EXPLAINS GRASSHOPPER  FOREBEARS

Your daddy? Well, he had no money ,
Was skinny and boney, but just gorgeous, Honey,
A real grasshopper’s grasshopper.
Spent his days, unafraid to come a cropper,
Hiding on a cornstalk in a field (you probably heard)
Listening out for combines or a hungry...

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Random chain of events
preceded occurrence re:
guarding existence of me
interminable fits and starts
concerning self destruction
inherent within one measly
self important species.

Yours truly synonymous 
with any chance reader
(of course inclusive those 
untold past multitudes,
who trod upon this oblate 
spheroid preceding one

anonymous groveling, 
middling sniveling modest
*****sapien) pursuant 
upon...

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By Dawne Zacharias

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My Lord, you brought me to this rich land. 
Your blessings overflow out of the hands of your people, 
the brains of your people,
the hearts of your people, 
the autopsies of your people. 
Wait for me 
to bring my best
as these brought their best.
To offer...

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