Best Overseen Poems

Asian Epicurean Quest

At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
  
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put your feet on;
 - genuine imitation Rolex watches and handbags...

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a quiet evening
overseen by brilliant moon
listen to your heart

beautiful silence 
where fireflies light your way
your soul relaxes...

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History runs deep, and it’s too late to rewrite
We were gasoline soul mates — friction ignites. 
With persistent anger that destroys my virtue
Sharpened tongue, time-thickened skin, it’s too hard to get through.

Here she comes — it’s the devil in my throat again
Out bubble hateful thoughts...

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Cancer it breaks cancer it takes
It erodes and corrodes body and soul
Lingers and takes hold  cant be stopped or controlled
Terminal is with an apparent ending
Loss of hope and no point in pretending
Life span is against natures clock
Head now on the proverbial block
Spreads with ease...

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That an oral tradition has had such a lasting impact on humanity is astonishing.
Since they first came out of the mouths of people, 
they have shot forth like an ever expanding bullet. 
Through the barrel of time, always changing; morphing into other languages,
distorting and splattering...

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Oh what have you done to me,
A city built in the name of Christ.

When an earthquake struck,
Destroying all my pretty clothing
And shaking  the flesh off all my bones.
Leaving only my skeletal frame ,
Half submerged in sewerage raw
And liquefaction adding to my woes,
Threatening to make...

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Oh Sleepless night oh Glory be
The stealth of nature burdens thee
As winter washes o'er the stones
Your cold caress doth sear my bones
An unfurled sail on straining yard
The banshee howls, its breath bites hard
Tossed from main, to fevered waters
To the open arms of Neptune's daughters
Oh sea,...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 36

All day long we kill to keep the home clean
Insecticides aerosols rat poison
The killer instinct makes us bold and mean

Down by the pond mosquitoes wake and preen
Time to send fighter jets by the dozen
All day long we kill...

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This brief discourse may seem by all means fantastic, 
but it was true.  
This young woman, once, 
at the tender age of twelve, 
was left a lonely orphan in this world, 
and the sole heir 
to eight hundred thousand acres of rich and fertile...

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I've heard it said that if all the people 
who ever lived and died, were buried together, 
it would fill the size of Spain.

No gazpacho, no El Greco 
No Flamenco and no Bolero
Just row upon row, with nowhere to go
on a Saturday night
Dead all over,...

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‘Twas a mellow evening overseen by a crescent moon
A ludic breeze playfully lurking above miles of glittery sand
A zillion stars out in full bloom commemorating a late June
I remember as if yesterday how you nervously touched my hand

In an awkwardly charming way you were so...

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Luscious night overseen by crescent moon
Playful ludic breeze toys with miles of sand
A zillion stars out in full bloom this June
T'was yesteryear nervous you took my hand

The charming way you were so chivalrous
Stories shared with innocent childlike heart
Time vanished most unceremonious
Our souls melding as one...

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*** SINGING MEMORIES ***

“Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.” **

A memory came flying through to me this afternoon
— a fine memory, not recently seen,
Up from long ago, some fifty years past — the vision
Came of a then...

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Make the scales balance
Venus in Libra
The realm of crashing waves of cardinal qualities
Rising elements of Vim and Vigor
A zest of love and life filling individuals
The magnetism of a blossoming choirs
Widening the lungs of liberation and freedom
The aura of innocence in faith
Meandering through the tray of...

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Monoku Series: General Hospital

i had a brain mri last month
    as expected, they found nothing

i asked could i do my own anesthetic
    doc said, "knock yourself out"

last week i went to urgent care   
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