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Overloaded

by Glenn Currier

Sweetpea is chattering
eyes affixed
the dove feeding
on today’s seeds.

A flock of grackles
crowd the scene
the cat overloaded
turns and leaves.

Scanning today’s headlines
sadly recalling
last night’s shouting
and posturing

I toss Newsweek
open Billy Collins
bathe in the cool
fluid of his lines.

08/25/2009

Posted on 08/25/2009
Copyright © 2026 Glenn Currier

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by George Hoerner on 08/25/09 at 05:29 PM

Good write Glenn, but poetry rarely is soothing for me. The juices start to flow when words find my ears.

Posted by A. Paige White on 08/25/09 at 05:37 PM

Overloaded but an overcomer! Toss that rag and pen some more lines like the first two. Are you taking requests? *giggle* (They were my favorite in this) Very enjoyable.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 08/26/09 at 03:27 AM

Really a wonderful flow to this. I enjoy the scene with the cat which ties in with your newspaper reading. Overloaded - a fine title, and I salute your solution!

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 08/27/09 at 01:50 PM

...ohhh, glenn, you had the nerve to read the paper. sheeesh! what guts, what stamina...now the collins pomes are a delight. ahhhh.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 08/29/09 at 06:21 PM

This is a very fun...bubbly...jazzy read Glenn. It has a freshness to it that shouts contemporary, and yet I still feel a tremendous yet comfortable connectedness with the past in reading it. Touché old man!

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 08/30/09 at 02:05 AM

Fun reading Glenn...CharMin

Posted by Charles E Minshall on 08/30/09 at 08:00 PM

Thanks for the comment Glenn....CharMin

Posted by Tony Whitaker on 09/04/09 at 02:04 PM

Perfect meter and flow...to go! Isn't Billy Collins the one that wrote "The Names" I read in our local newspaper (when I still lived in America) after 9/11?

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