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People must populate
Patterns perpetuate:
Humans defy humility
But prosper and spread
Speeding through centuries
With deftness and dread
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Cosmos and micro-cosmos
Mirror the mirages:
Perceive earth and heaven
Through a peacock’s tail
Iridescent blue
Glittering green
Held and withheld but
Tumbling, obscene
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Peopling populations
Prime persons to kill
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Prying, the public
Greets deftness and skill
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From Persona Grata et non Grata
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© HMH, 2021