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Premium Member Does Anybody Care
Does anybody really care
that the world is falling apart?
And kids are shot and killed in schools
by other children toting guns.

Politicians are all liars,
does anybody really...

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Categories: overpopulated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member Least We Forget the Girls' Killing Cry: Apropos the Boko Aaram Girls
LEAST WE FORGET THE GIRLS’ KILLING CRY
(Apropos The Boko Haram Girls)

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Categories: overpopulated, africa, bereavement, conflict, daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Overpopulation
I sat with a friend,
discussing overpopulation,
"the worlds not overpopulated"
he stated

"Look around you,
there is still, a lot more land,
there are still places, 
with very few people"

Granted...

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Categories: overpopulated, humanity, international, political, pollution,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody...

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Categories: overpopulated, body, christian, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the...

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Categories: overpopulated, horror, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mathgeek Passions
Healthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.

Ingesting healthy passions...

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Categories: overpopulated, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Arena of the Brave
Characterized by the early settlement
of the San Bushmen of the Kalahari.
Its patriotic sentiments of profound bravery
echos the nation’s long struggle for independence
well articulated and expressed...

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Categories: overpopulated, africa, community, conflict, corruption,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Energy Democracy V Fascism
I suppose
cannibalism
is the logical conclusion
of rabidly overpopulated fascism.

Some cannibals,
perhaps all,
ate their human prey
not for typical nutritional reasons
like other forms of digested nature,
but more specifically
because those...

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Categories: overpopulated, bullying, earth, hate, health,
Form: Political Verse
To the Stars
Humanity spread across the expanse of space
Into the unknown, as if a race
Starship after starship spread the seed
After that first step, we were finally freed
From...

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© Amar Qamar  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overpopulated, courage, earth, encouraging, flying,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Secret Lives of Shame
We could speak together,
Decry rabid violence of chronically stressed kids
and young adults acting like kids,
apparently regardless of income or race;
perhaps not of enculturation.

Feeling claustrophobic,
anxious about...

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Categories: overpopulated, abortion, caregiving, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Revolutions In Resistance
Before we had the LeftBrain eclipse word,
circa 1200s on back through space and time,
we had great sacred transformational co-arisings,
re-alignment as BlackHole icons
of ancient eco-alignments,
Yang solar...

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Categories: overpopulated, deep, earth, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Do Not Kill
Reading a book, the war between
Saladin and Richard the lion hearted 
their battle went into Allepo
checking Allepo on the web
I found them still at war

Yet...

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Categories: overpopulated, abuse, allah, anger, bible,
Form: Narrative
My Mind
My mind        

My mind is a prison
Overpopulated with remorse
Incarcerated by images of sin
My mind refuses rehabilitation
It cowers in...

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Categories: overpopulated, death, fear, forgiveness, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Space Oddity Or What
>Space oddity or what?

Technology has advanced down here.
By down here, I mean, on planet Earth.
We are all living peacefully.
No poor people do I see.

Bet you...

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Categories: overpopulated, earth, flying, goodbye, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watching the Henhouse
Once upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor good-egg chicken family values
planning to...

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Categories: overpopulated, betrayal, children, community, conflict,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs