Long Overfed Poems

"You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur

And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel her same unitarian way
already grown

Ego/Eco-centering balanced
symmetrically integral
as a...

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There are people who believe others should not have as much as they
regrettably, they are many of the same people who employ us. 

They do not understand that sharing has universal urgency
those that share are...

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Though east is east and west is west, 
each corner lawyers will infest,
and one thing they’ll deploy with zest:
notorious, the “but for” test.

You want to be the one who smirks,
once having stomped on stupid jerks?
Quell...

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Once upon a time in the square shaped woods
There lived a square shaped thing
He liked to watch the square shaped birds
He liked to hear them sing
They’d frolic in in the square shaped trees
Where square shaped...

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II

for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...

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I went to observe Solat for Eid al-Adha. 
Prophet Ibrahim's supposed sacrifice- his son to Allah--
Such outstanding faith in town, 
That spares every household firstborn.  

You knew not how tempting it was. 
Oh, I’ve...

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Her face pops up on the screen and she stared directly at me looking into her dream and, as the verdict is read, she grips tightly to her symbolic bed. 

Her eyes were motionless, her...

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When the stomach of a child
Who has overfed rumbles, it is not 
In memory of the empty hands of the past
Or what the future holds in hand
It is to mock hunger by saying all is...

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It was just a typical ordinary night
I was all tucked up in bed
Radio on reading a book
By lamp light.

When suddenly
I saw a flash in the corner of my eye
Boy I was so scared
I nearly wet...

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When education was sitting in the driver's seat of Nigeria's affair
The youths were blooming with special skills to solve despair
Didn't you read Balewa and his kinds ruled Nigeria in their prime
Thanks to quality education they...

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Sudan 1993 and an ugly famine reaps its prey

malnourished bodies make it difficult to believe

that women were created from the rib of men

it is the most vulnerable who carry the weight

if you pardon the cynical...

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Simply calling me crazy
Would be nothing short of ignorant
And so much more than lazy
‘Cause it’s deeper than that
When my demons aren’t freely 
Beating up or running up 
A costly fee on my mind
They’ve got a...

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There is a balm in Gilead 
To every hungry soul He gives His bread.
His very own elect; He decreed be overfed (Psalm 23:5)

*Ask in my name and it will given unto you*, His words said.
For...

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Once upon a time in the square shaped woods
There lived a square shaped thing
He liked to watch the square shaped birds
He liked to hear them sing

A shadow moved behind a mound, 
A mound all square...

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It was dusk and eerie, rain dripped from 
Leaves that rustled in the trees 
Of the nearby woods, each shadow cast
A reminder that danger lurked about!
A shrill scream cut through the darkness,
Bringing with it fear...

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My Father’s Hand!

My father left me when I was a baby
and all that remained of him… was his hand! 
The hand that edged its way
into the last photo he took of me!
As I grew, I...

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Senseless

What is it inside the heart of man
That cannot appreciate another’s suffering
Were we born with this senseless implacability

Is it from life itself we grow these calluses of the soul
Are we created not to care
Is the...

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>Overfed
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author.
And Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned.

Are you feeling overfed?   Do you enjoy stuffing your head?
Actually I meant your mouth.  But this is poetry about your health!
Rhymes are...

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He started a club, but was completely unaware..
That many would follow, and join his despair.
Robert Johnson the first, was a pioneer of rock..
Poisoned by jealousy his life came to stop.

Another one joined and his name...

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The evil Christmas elf snuck out of bed
Gave me a swift kick on the side of my head
I said what the heck? Now he was biting my neck.
My husband was snoring away while I was...

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The dark blood clouds have left
It feels like the sun came out for the first time
More people feel like they belong
I feel like I belong
I feel like the wars will end and the fighting will...

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A Coca Cola Santa stampedes into the streets
nail gun in hand
peat matured whiskey 13 years upon his breath
´tis the time for this tinsel rebellion
of Decembers egress

A debacle of gluttons fairy ethics
light up them there star...

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So it seems to me that you do as you please,
as I run around pleasing you,
there's feelings indeed, I'm an "emotional trapeze",
don't bother conveying them through.

How dare I share senses of hurt that aren't rare,
while...

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First class brains
Streets populated with them
Flaunting certificates--useless
Plus innate knowledge practical,
But unrecognised
 
Tightfisted bourgeois;
Alienated job opportunities
Reserved for own kids born and unborn
Capitalism overblown;nauseous
Grab and keep philosophy elevated
Who do you know?Who don't you know?
Keys to haven
 
You...

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FRUITY      VOICE


Her voice reminds me of laughter barely suppressed
An energetic spirit tugging constantly at  the rope
A caterpillar turning to butterfly at any moment
Her  voice sounds like lifegiving fruit

Not...

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