Short Packaged Poems

a box of people
packaged in with hope and love
   call this place a home...

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"Outside of the box" 
-- not packaged -- is how I want
to define people....

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Cocoa pods ripe…

Bitter made sweet.

Packaged as treasures

For you, and for me....

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I am a product -
made, packaged and marketed…
past my use-by date?


Written: May 2014...

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Like Ramen noodles,
packaged, dried worms are instant.
Just add hot water, stir, and eat....

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The cheese board met with Mr. Insane.
As a block they want cheese to remain.
So Mr. President’s heading,
to ban packaged shredding,
to make America grate once again....

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These porch pirates are quite the wise guys
so thought of a plan to help their demise
unheard and absurd
I packaged pet turds
boy were they in for a rare gift surprise!




1-1-2018...

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A seed is buried in dirt to grow
Its future packaged within
Destined only for greatness
From seed to Sequoia
Like beautiful trees rise from ugly seeds
Beauty rises out of ashes in due season...

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Rocking sun drips away like butter
Sunlight bleeds through curtains
in rose hung despair

Berry stained lips
taste sweet but
bloom as rare as 
the seeds of packaged measure
she blended into poems...

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Have you noticed yet
the absurd disconnect of measurement?
Have you noticed yet
puréed pumpkin, any filling I’d bet,
is packaged just shy of the requirement?
So another is needed to augment?
Have you noticed yet?...

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Freedom comes packaged
entrapped and confined

How big is your cage, 
 to roam and define

Always constricted,
with borders that move

Its bars of detention
—forever reproved

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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You are like a spider 
on the running water 
hunting fish and insects in the river
I see you can feed yourself
on whatever you catch,
Me not,  Honey,
and keep it in mind,
I am not a pre-packaged food
on the shelf...

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There was a girl called Polly Esther,
the fastest girl from downtown Leicester.
Pre-packaged food was her sole fare,
For healthy meals she had no care.
In the tum for food there's room.
There plastic wrappings end in doom...

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Sirens and metro buses
Detectives and narcs
Hustlers and thieves.
 
Friends and foes
Currency and narcotics
Bums and dope fiends.
 
Soft or hard
Packaged or dumped
White or green.
 
Love and disdain
Loyalty and trust
Hope and shattered dreams
This is my block....

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How?
How can I explain the way
I love you 
It is like my love of God
My love for nature
My love poetry
My love for beauty
    And indefinable happiness
My endless search for perfection
Instead of ending up in verse
Has been pettily packaged in a woman
Who gave her love to me...

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Packaged deal, only seven lines long

Picture it within ruts of your brain 

Pleiades poetry written in sweet song.

Promising a harmony like blueberries that are tame.

Performing a work that prodigiously aspires

Pointed to the Pleiades constellation that shines     ...

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salt flats
stretch for miles
in grocery stores
chip isle, frozen foods
seven and thirteen, respectively
reflect their shine
of white light
enticement

all organisms dried up,
fifteen per cent more, but lacking
in this pre-packaged
wasteland
where nothing ever grows
or dares to walk without
a list to double check....

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     Can composure somehow be taught
       pre-packaged ‘poise lessons’ bought
     
     Can’t say I ever gave it a thought
        ‘til I watched a WNBA 'game' 
                        ~ I mean, onslaught



     ______________________________
     WNBA = Women's National Basketball
                   Association
...

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On drowsy hamlets mobile hordes descend,
From tight-lipped forests rises a babel. 
Wanderlust is to distant wonders sent,
As fleets of long-haul birds skyward rumble.
Where massed footprints to virgin lands extend,
And sights are packaged for all to sample,
Coy beauties in nature’s bosom held dear
From between heaven and earth disappear....

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Stupor of blind belief has caged soul in mind,
bemused by illusions, all self-created,
making us flounder about, as do the blind,
hypnotised by scriptures, fully sedated.
God is packaged in all colours and sizes
but know only the pure heart realises,
who in truth God is, as dweller of our heart,
who when He leaves, our life force too will depart....

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Time was once a letter sent
A thinly packaged salutation
Revealing reads and rushes
A content discourse situation

Story lines entwined grapevines
Most privately complicit
A baton passed a relay cast
Too confidential to elicit

Artistic flair in swirling script
Stylish prose self styled emphatic
A photographic written pose
Of diatonic scale chromatic...

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Pristine elements exist here,
carbon facsimiles are forged,
in Proper Space,
in Proper Time,
expectant and delivered, all packaged,
uncontrollability in a controlled environment.

I offer Universal Apologies.
Oh the atrocities I commit in parallel worlds.
So hold me, and hold me responsible,
responsibly.
I am finite in my infinity,
I am futile in my future....

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He sat on a wooden chair
In front of him was a wooden table
On it was placed some paper
a bottle of packaged drinking water
Some disposable glasses
He had invited people attend his lecture on degradation of environment

So many people talking about it
No one doing anything...

And I am not ashamed to admit 
I am one of them.
Worst  part is I am criticising him....

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democracy is
like mobocracy or like
gangocracy ~ folks

conservatives are
like preservatives ~ packaged
seasoned condiments

green party nature's
most guarded percentages ~
dimes quarters and halves 

national org. of
women ~ beauty contest is
the bow wow n-o-w club

peace corp manned front lines
hyped to show peace sign with hands
 ~ fingers ... two not one...

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Listen to poem:

Crop Rows as The Way Things Ought to Grow
David J Walker

Your rain falls uniformly in a
Row on gardens that grow in a
Straight-line while

Mine is subject to the
Wind and sun and falls in 

Layers of composted Ataxia
Keeping in  mind 

The perception of the aesthetics 
of perfection that is packaged

in the planning of crop rows
as the way things ought to grow...

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