Best Surfeit Poems

Here, there is a surfeit of spam,
Fed to us by government man,
Democracy's harrowing tale,
Setting us up to fail,
Pollies' synchronised team,
Is all this what it seems?
Total cant and hypocrisy,
A merit myth of futility,
Spam surfeit, no caring beyond duty.........

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A shirtfront full of tiny red tomatoes
That took the time it takes to eat a half dozen
Bursting on my teeth to drown my thirst

Stepping on both sides of a row of beets
Carefully avoiding the sharper leaves of eggplants
Flip flops crushing fallen fruit  to reach...

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A Surfeit of Light
by Michael R. Burch

There was always a surfeit of light in your presence.
You stood distinctly apart, not of the humdrum world—
a chariot of gold in a procession of plywood.

We were all pioneers of the modern expedient race,
raising the ante: Home Depot to...

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Serenades, his lies. 
Soothing sweetness, it singes.
Stumped sorries, she sweeps....

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SURFEIT OF THE SENSUOUS
unbroken
an entirety
  in a defined setting
toward&away
 with resonance
   & style
 long
&vibrant
  fidelity
    isolated from tradition


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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Books 

I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair the other day.
It was mind-boggling..Books! 
There were fat books, thin books,
White books, black books, tawny books,
Paperbacks, hardbacks, beautifully bound books,
Pure books, lax books, learned books, lay books,
Plain books, books of many colours,
Books on every subject under the...

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