Short Corpulence Poems

  
      Corpulence was once a sign of vast wealth
      Although these days it’s a sign of poor health ~

          Donald Trump may be obese
          But with his weight he’s at peace ~

      Still, his wife seems to say, “Look at yourself!”
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Body Art
David J Walker

It was beautiful beyond any measure
As the birthplace of unheard-of ideas
Mothers wept
Fathers slept 
While the skin-toned canvas 
Spread thin and then 
thinner again 
with age
Topographic changes across the brow 
The eyes seized in torrents of time
The deliquesce of delicate hands 
Unplanned corpulence 
In the fading spadix of arums and palms

Light will take what time has left behind...

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The weeping canvas
drips it's wordings
o'er the upturned chins
of the thinning mind.

A diet;
not of health
but of nutritional void;
sapped of logic and heart,
to warp priorities
and starve it's principles.

Where a mass of ignorance
and complacency takes hold;
lavishing in it's own corpulence
as it ruptures the arteries
of the light of young minds;
unto a paint brush without a color,
to remain adjacently dry forever....

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