Food Free Verse Poems

Less food, less warmth, less time to rest—
less light in long nights, less room to dream,
less comfort, less voice, less chance to speak—
but never less...

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A heron watched me 
from painted rushes,
brush-stroked by a man 
who lived in a wagon
lacquered with stars 
and road-dust and wind,
who sometimes drank too much
and...

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Redlight One to Mission Control!
Can you read me, Can you read me?
Are you there?
Has the comet hit you yet?
Did the 'Nuke it Baby' missile work?
Can...

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Burned my wings on a neon sun,

Too bright to love, too fierce to run.

Angels talk like kings of war,

Locked in gold behind white doors.

I wore...

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MY BOYS ARE MY LIFE.
BEING WITH THEM MOST OF THEIR LIVES TILL NOW, WITH THIS UNFORESEEN CHANGE HAS AFFECTED US AND CHANGED OUR LIVES.
OUR QUALITY...

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And the Lord will say to them on Judgment Day,
“I was hungry, and you defunded my food aid programs.
I was thirsty, and you rolled back...

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In Rome do not do as the Romans do.
For you'll lose out in many ways.
The pizza you loved at home
will an alien be,
a fake, a...

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Warm, sweet, delicious, and dripping with flavor
Cinnamon vanilla ice cream melts off her top
I was salivating during the baking
lovely fragrance wafted through grandma’s kitchen
Peach cobbler
Yummy!...

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     Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict 
     Pigs begged - please eat us
  ...

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Big smile
Hello
How do you do?
Screech on your brajes,
No one says that anymore.

How do you do? Has been tossed out with “you’re welcome”
They have both been...

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Two spoons
You can keep one
I do not intend to share
I have not had a hot fudge sundae in forever
My tongue salivates like a starving dog...

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“The Prismatic Self"
 As I lay in my bed trying to figure out what to write 
My mind goes blank and my creativity is way...

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It began with a bargain on a winter night,
When the cupboards were bare
And hope sat idle in the corners.


He came with frost on his collar,
A...

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Job Description Board of the Middle East 

The Sniper - not Palestinian
The Bomber - not Palestinian
The Thief - not Palestinian
The Terrorist - not Palestinian
The Child...

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From a reddish, horrifying gloomy cloud which brings upon a frowning
beast~  I shall overcome and finally a smile shall bring me peace—poet :)

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