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Best Overcrowding Poems

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Overcrowding
flutter of movement
the bird balancing                watches

we’re blocking its view?...

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Categories: overcrowding, bird, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member The Dark Side of Canada
I do not have to go far away
 but just look within canada     to see
there is starvation    ...

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Categories: overcrowding, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Mary King's Close
Mary King’s Close

Set underneath the cobbles
Below the Royal Mile
The close is dimly lit
You can visit there awhile

Go back into the past
Explore the narrow wynds
Live the...

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Categories: overcrowding, scary, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watering Terror
I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time, 
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a...

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Categories: overcrowding, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Lost In Darfur
A sea of people is overcrowding the displacement camp.

Today another village burns, while families are killed. 
    It’s not safe here because...

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Categories: overcrowding, africa, change, conflict, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Breaking My Heart
 
chinese food dripping sauce
spicy beef and noodles
steaming vegetable rice
eggrolls and plum dip
spareribs and garlic
delightful
food


oh so delicious-    most of us have all...

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Categories: overcrowding, death, food, history,
Form: Free verse
Space
Overcrowding is like a box with too many other boxes inside it
             ...

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Categories: overcrowding, community, family, international, poverty,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Cooperative Pirate School
Students conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre-meditated rapture
of Heavenly bloodsucking EarthNatures.

To meet conservative...

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Categories: overcrowding, care, education, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Three Pigs - the Early Days
THREE PIGS  -  THE EARLY  DAYS



At first it was just a piglet and mum
And the pig-house had plenty of room
But when mum...

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Categories: overcrowding, funny, mum,
Form: Couplet
Lyrics, Beats and Musics
Lyrics sink into my memory
Beat, into my heart,
Music, into my soul.
They stay with me uninvited
They mock me when I’m scared,
And torture me when I’m confused
Blocking...

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Categories: overcrowding, addiction,
Form: ABC
Libraries
Libraries are said to be 
Treasure house of books,
Books here, books there
On racks high and low.

Culture and heritage
Thoughts of writers and poets,
All in a room...

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Categories: overcrowding, appreciation, books, career, children,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Empty Closets
Empty Closets
            by Odin Roark

How empty the content
Delusion's walk-in closet
Hideaway's glory
Filled to burst

Collected identities
Acquired...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overcrowding, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Empty Closets
Empty Closets
            by Odin Roark

How empty the content
Delusion's walk-in closet
Hideaway's glory
Filled to burst

Collected identities
Acquired...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overcrowding, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Contingency
In the arctic tundra live strange critters
called lemming that, legend says, jump off cliffs. 
Their fate's enough to give one the jitters,
imagine finding all those...

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Categories: overcrowding, animal, fantasy, feelings, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
The House
1
My house (it's a really two-bedroom apartment
On the corner of Moorpark, lineup as if it
Was a firecracker or criminal lot, unshaven, old; 
Overcrowding and unquiet...

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Categories: overcrowding, home, life, pain, house,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs