Overdriving Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Appropriate Cultures

Cultural ownership,
disproportionately lavished upon kings,
the occasional ecopolitical queen,
white male Republican Senators,
elite corporate CEOs
overdriving inside monocultural management
feeding consumer acquisitive appetites

Leads to cultural entitlement

Elitely leads to cultural appropriation,
where I win appropriate proportions
at your loser disproportionate misfortune,

And,
sometimes to multicultural creolization,
where everyone wins Golden Rules
co-arisingly together.

Lipreading

Overdriving 
the silence in zero light, 
flickers of sickle moon were 
fading.

There was a conflict between 
reason and 
conscience. My father was 
smiling.

Where was the gold, he asked 
walking with his wooden-
stick in jungle of tears ?
I kept the door ajar.

A smoke engulfs my eyes.
Before he died, he took 
a promise from me.
I would not be visible.


Satish Verma

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