Food Verse Poems

       (Apropos Of Self-Reparation)

It has been said that we must love others
As we love ourselves, loving each other
As does...

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Being me. 
Trying to build myself out of scraps of scraps. 

When you can see through that barrier between us. 
And you think you can...

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Wake up. If you can.
Or just lie there, blank-eyed,
Listening to the ceiling rot.
Time is fake. Clocks are arrogant.
Let them tick for someone who matters.

Forget food....

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On an island kissed by sea and sky,
Where winds blow soft and people sigh,
Lived a girl named Masumbuko—
Her name meant pain, and life moved slow.

A...

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The Most Beloved Among Earthlings
Thank you, Mr. Calin Georgescu, for the hope that flows like a river through our souls,
For changing our mindset like a...

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We're mannequins peering from a storage
bin. We slouch across from
the "No-Food" paper sign.
Its message sags to a pulp taped to the shoulders
of a glass door....

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"The darkened sky stole my tears"
Leaving me empty of ebony despair 
Fears fall like amber autumn leaves
Bravery is braided in my somber soul

Whispers of denim...

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Less food, less warmth, less time to rest—
less light in long nights, less room to dream,
less comfort, less voice, less chance to speak—
but never less...

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A heron watched me 
from painted rushes,
brush-stroked by a man 
who lived in a wagon
lacquered with stars 
and road-dust and wind,
who sometimes drank too much
and...

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Redlight One to Mission Control!
Can you read me, Can you read me?
Are you there?
Has the comet hit you yet?
Did the 'Nuke it Baby' missile work?
Can...

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Burned my wings on a neon sun,

Too bright to love, too fierce to run.

Angels talk like kings of war,

Locked in gold behind white doors.

I wore...

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MY BOYS ARE MY LIFE.
BEING WITH THEM MOST OF THEIR LIVES TILL NOW, WITH THIS UNFORESEEN CHANGE HAS AFFECTED US AND CHANGED OUR LIVES.
OUR QUALITY...

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And the Lord will say to them on Judgment Day,
“I was hungry, and you defunded my food aid programs.
I was thirsty, and you rolled back...

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In Rome do not do as the Romans do.
For you'll lose out in many ways.
The pizza you loved at home
will an alien be,
a fake, a...

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Warm, sweet, delicious, and dripping with flavor
Cinnamon vanilla ice cream melts off her top
I was salivating during the baking
lovely fragrance wafted through grandma’s kitchen
Peach cobbler
Yummy!...

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