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Overseers Poems - Poems about Overseers

My Roots
...My Roots Pluck at my green leaves Devour my fruit with gusto Hack at my bark all day Carve your name on my trunk My roots remain steadfast Snip at my blossoms Relish in its colours and scent......

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Categories: overseers, africa, age, allegory, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Road To The Sea
...It was one of those sunny days, that later on merge in memory, and you can’t tell one from another instantly, but on the second sight they discern, each with its own number of little events. There wa......

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Categories: overseers, sea,
Form: Free verse



Overseers
...White People Are Overseers For The Rich......

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Categories: overseers, africa, america, bible, black
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clearing: Part I
..._\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__\0/__ A night is kept charged as a day loses its will A......

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Categories: overseers, inspirational, nature,
Form: Metrical Tale
Ranting
...If this present development dosen't partake of the wanted anticipation of the wilfully needy There maybe and expression of discontent for what they've been told what to anticipate. I hunger not wh......

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Categories: overseers, deep, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The State of the Onion
...The puppet pranced The strings frayed A jackass brayed As poppin’ hoppys Sat and rose In ballet dance Of well browned nose Applause and “clapture” of Stockholm rapture A mocking strut Of fa......

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Categories: overseers, angst, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Cathars In the Land of the Angles
...In winter's cold grip In the land of the Angles The Good Christians came Against their will to a trial In a grand city Called the Ford of the Oxen Good will be slaughtered By the hands of hot ......

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Categories: overseers, christian, endurance, england, history,
Form: Choka
Premium Member God's Holy People - Philippians 1: 1-2
...The apostle Paul God's holy servant addresses God's chosen holy people speaking with true royal authority looking to God from His holy steeple God here speaks to His very own all of those God ......

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Categories: overseers, god, people, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kayak Leads the Way
...Planned trips can be stifling and boring As a spontaneous Gemini, I took a happy risk I latched my kayak onto my jeep and drove west Spoke to people along the way One forest ranger suggested an......

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Categories: overseers, nature,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Book of Exodus
...Moses hungered mightily for Canaan, That fabled milk and honey promised land. He ‘scaped by wading hip deep through the water To keep from leaving footprints in the sand. This engine sent to fr......

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Categories: overseers, history, slavery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Overseers
...They sit high – very high in their echelons of such great importance, where they can look down on us (all the millions of us excluded from their exclusive group) - from the penniless and the e......

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Categories: overseers, social,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Seeking a Sacred Place of Refuge
... Ghetto me be a bleating poor refugee, albeit I’m Goshen rich in faith Got a manger stall in the USA, Pilate shepherd of the Cesarian peace Time stamped stillborn delivery tis iron Rom......

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Categories: overseers, history, perspective, self, spiritual,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Deus Ex Machina
...President Olusegun Obasanjo- Atiku Abubakar Promises of pardoned traitors Reek like ancient regrets. Exhibitions, Steeped......

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Categories: overseers, abuse, africa, angst, corruption,
Form: Burlesque
Princip
...Think of the first world war think of young Princip his mud floor house with stones for walls Poverty and shame it was hard to make an existence it was hard to make a life the food that the......

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Categories: overseers, dream, inspiration, international,
Form: Rhyme
Publican Offenders
... Copper robbers ... penny-ante coin collectors Duly appointed by Caesar Cersei, deputized purse snatchers Modern day publicans holding the money bag, appointed bean counters being le......

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Categories: overseers, history, money, perspective, word
Form: Alliteration

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