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Surplus Poems - Poems about Surplus


Premium Member Surplus to requirements'
Fifty one m1 Abrams tanks.' Australian donated it would Break a small bank' to cause more misery..While many Live in tents.' War and destruction, and madcap bents.? Young Australians denied an army job.' Why were they First obtslained.? Must have cost some bobs." Why not Employ them as temporaty accomodations.' Thats how Dire things are in our nation.' I never thought...

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Categories: surplus, character, community, conflict, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DUMPING SURPLUS FOOD
Discreetly sent to landfill site then buried out of public sight where it will slowly rot away with other waste sent to decay surely this is morally wrong in times when people are starving sell-by dates are partly to blame as they maintain the profit game but is this practice really right dumping good food in landfill site. ...

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Categories: surplus, environment, food,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maldives: a Surplus of Light
It’s so bright on these islands it feels like they must be nightless, that with just 24 hours to a day, there’s more than enough light to go around. The light floods water, making it disappear, so boats levitate, their anchor lines making them look like realistic boat-shaped balloons. There is so much light, it spills over...

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Categories: surplus, beautiful, body, holiday, light,
Form: Free verse
Surplus To Requirement
Surplus to requirement My wife was her aunt a lovely woman of forty-four, then she divorced her husband a man with a title, a baron, because she felt bored by him – he was tedious all style and a small brain- she took a course and got a medical job that brought her far and...

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Categories: surplus, absence, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
Surplus of Requirement
Surplus of Requirement m/s “Kari” rode the seas like a swan, only when the most evil waves of the Atlantic ocean hit, did she flap her wings. Why was it she was crewed by harbour dregs? Men who callously walked on her deck and were ready to leave her at the next port of call,...

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Categories: surplus, lost love, nostalgia, satire,
Form: Blank verse



Surplus Thoughts
counting deaths servants, circling these wayward surplus thoughts. Plucking one by one just as you pluck guitar strings. Surprisingly beautiful, as they flee from deaths servants. Pulling out his sickle to slice, slash anything in its path. Raping them of any existanced of mind. How lovely. I guess I'll take a number....

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Categories: surplus, depression
Form: I do not know?
"a Surplus of Memory"
28.05.2008 "A surplus of memory"* Darker than November nights Falling softly on the snow - Memories I cannot fight, Memories that wouldn't go. When I looked into your eyes Happiness was all I saw - Now the past - I cannot fight, Now the past just wouldn't go. As I very shyly reach For a hand that's never there - Memories - they stop my heart, Memories...

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Categories: surplus, life, nostalgia
Form: I do not know?
Surplus Billions
I take so little from this world, a bread, some spread, little water, some air, that lifes me, and dry my wares, a little space, to fall flat, when I had enough of pace, some shards to cover me, and some books to read, that is all I need, why are you jealous, of me, dont you get even this much, or are you worried about my billions, which are anyway surplus....

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Categories: surplus, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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