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Overflow Infliction

Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
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Categories: outruns, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

The Speed of Time

Time outruns those who don't sprint 
To keep up. It never turns back
Or bothers to wait for idle souls

Why carry coals to Newcastle?
Time misspent is...

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Categories: outruns, poetry, time,
Form: Lyric

Eve Unearths Eden

Beyond is Jordan, past the great Red Sea,
a distance cov’ring awesome, frightful years.
Invisible her pathway heading home
while Eve awaits the target of her soul.
Through darksome...

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Categories: outruns, allegory, future, heaven,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

My Animals Abcs

An alligator always ate addax and antelopes.
Baby bats began bouncing before burping 
Caterpillars climb cable crossings carefully
Dingos don't dine delicately during dinner.
Eager elephants enjoy easily...

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Categories: outruns, animal, funny, humor,
Form: Alliteration

Let It Go

Show your love and let it go
Show your ego and confine it
For your love it shall return
For the latter not so likely

Like the falcon on...

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Categories: outruns, conflict, daughter, destiny, emotions,
Form: Verse

The Bug Bites Again

THE BUG BITES –AGAIN!

We begin to get restless,
And know that feeling
The one when our heads
Start reeling!
It’s time to visit the Kruger Park,
Although sparse rain, and
The...

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Categories: outruns, africa, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Journeying Home

My heart pounds swiftly and sweetly
As I set again home bound
My body is calmed in unreached respite
My soul outruns its line
And catches untouched pleasures

In a...

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Categories: outruns, blessing, child, journey, joy,
Form: Free verse

Polyphony/Poems of Sabushanmughom

DAMSELS IN KUTTANAD

In Kuttanad
The damsels
Never outruns girlhood.

Like lakes,
Stirs in gentle breeze.

In the brook
Perches becomes stars
At their sight.

At the twinkling anklets
Water lilies flushed.

From the untied hair
The...

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Categories: outruns, life
Form: I do not know?

Dog Talk

‘Old Spice’ and wet grass carry years 
of understanding between us.
What I wear and you gather into you,
become a language neither of us know,
but comprehend...

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Categories: outruns, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

The Adventures of Bruce the Moose

The Adventures of Bruce the Moose ©               

When Bruce the moose...

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Categories: outruns, humor,
Form: Free verse

My Precious Find

I can't describe how I feel for you - that's true
There are nights when I don't know what to do
This weekend, I was thinking about...

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Categories: outruns, cute love, deep, emotions,
Form: Lyric

An Awkward Child

A mother's hand trembles
     as she brushes a tear from her eyes;
while watching her awkward child
     standing...

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Categories: outruns, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, bullying,
Form: Free verse

God Is a Mighty One

Dad blurts out in fright:
"I don't know what to DO!?"

Dad's abandoning God...and I'm striving, 
With all of my effort, but with little doubt, 
I assure...

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Categories: outruns, angst, confusion, depression, family,
Form: Free verse

Breaking Dawn

Its dark, the woods

Jacob sits beside the campfire thinking of all his miseries. A rainbow of thoughts of which one draws attention. "Why". The cackling...

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Categories: outruns, adventure, beautiful, depression, first
Form: Free verse

Spin the Bottle

we play spin the bottle like children pulling wings off flies
no care full abandon no threat of the truth the next the 
tomorrow the what...

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Categories: outruns, body, break up,
Form: Free verse