Short Overruns Poems

murky water hinders view

vegetation overruns shore

crocodiles lay in wait



                    P.R.Deremer...

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Bogged down in the details,
truth is undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
milk overruns

Looking at the forest,
seeing just trees

Life micromanaged
—big picture tease

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Bogged down in the details,
  truth comes undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
  milk overruns 

Looking at the forest,
  seeing just trees

Pieces micromanaged,
 —big picture tease

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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A malady of the mind
Dominates the will
As the surging river
Overruns the mill

Omnipotent craving
The bullpen cannot hold
A temptation unremitting
Annulling principle

No affection or reason 
Or threat of penalty
Can possibly deter - or -
Potentiate the will...

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I live
where the other world meets reality
Always Assume


ignoring, staring
at blinding glances of sun rays

I die
alone in a crowded room
echoed stress
deafening what’s assumed

Assume wrong
and wrong you will be 

Assume long 
and think of what they see

Assume strong
and read each body note

Assume gone
and despair overruns hope...

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The invasion upon us
attacked by a neighbor
no village is safe
their scourge overruns

The enemy dressed
as civilian turistas
our border wide open
and freely they come

No shots have been fired
or prisoners taken
the keys to our arsenal
willingly loaned

Our schools now infested
with quotas bespoken   
surrounded and cornered
—the fault but our own

(McAllen Texas: September, 2022)...

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