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POEM: Intelligence

Intelligence, is it reading more books?

What coat  suits intelligence

What shoe fits intelligent feet

Which scale measures intelligence

Who guards the intellectual well

Why,to protect it from intellectual poisons?

Who carries the poison?

 

Assumed intellectual supremacy

Everyday we see in fellow humans

Extracted from wells dug by fellow

Humans, is it enough,how many rivers

Oceans and wells provide intelligent waters

On this earth? Has anyone

Drunk from all sources to be the judge

 

Intelligence,intelligence who is?

 Intelligence, is it reading more books

Than hooks,is it counting stars in the

Sky or sands in the oceans,is it being whiter

Than black,swallowing faster white material

Than black chunk

 

What is intelligence,wearing academic

Caps or soccer caps,is it craming books

Created by someone or creating your own

Survival?who holds the whistle referring

Who playing

 

So many l have noticed,vying hustling

Declaring themselves,ardoning themselves

As winners of the Intelligence trophy

The answers I seek,in bewilderment I stare

For intelligence to me is a whale,giving her

Portion to everyone who dares cut her

 

If the judge,the referee is us all

Then we are all winners or losers

For everyone sings of his intelligence

And everyone's stupidity

Intelligence is like the earth

Going spherically,gigantic accommodating

Us all,surprising us sometimes

With disasters

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