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Best Overactive Poems

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Premium Member Moving Lightly
I move lightly at sixty,
a little less than the max.
Any faster, and the sunflower shells I spit
blow back in my face,
and any slower and the...

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Categories: overactive, allegory, introspection, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Wrapping the Night In a Table Cloth, Stars and All.
soda sparks
and lemon juice
on every lip
and candle wick
explosion
of the champagne kind
to bubble brains
and swirl the minds
when summer limps
upon two heels
we break our vows
and kneel to...

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Categories: overactive, happiness, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Owl
I have become like him; nocturnal. 
Prematurely anaesthetised by exhaustion 
then jerked awake into the darkness. 
How long since I have slept 'til dawn? 
A...

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Categories: overactive, introspectionnight, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forming of Thoughts
The passing melancholy of an overactive mind
Drags you beneath waves of lost time

No notion to breathe permeates past the ache
Crashing of waves doesn't encourage you...

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Categories: overactive, angst,
Form: Rhyme
In My Professional Opinion
I stare at all the stars in the sky 
Like everlasting snowflakes 
No two are alike  
I wonder what god was thinking  
...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overactive, dark, humorous,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member See Food Diet
Some people moan that they are overweight
Attempt dieting but can’t shift it at any rate
I could have an underactive thyroid they may squawk…
But in reality
They...

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Categories: overactive, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ephemeral Online Moment
Ephemeral online moment...

Yours truly plagiarizes himself with zeal
courtesy mental cogs and rusty wheel,
thus no literary crime committed to steel
I broadcast material shown thru rickety
black and...

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Categories: overactive, absence, earth, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Prednisone Poetry
On occasion upper respiratory and sinus infections require
oral steroids to squelch and dry the muck and mire
To breathe without the wheeze is the desired effect
though...

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Categories: overactive, crazy, emotions, health, poems,
Form: Rhyme
To Much Cable Tv
To much cable tv

I think the house is haunted. 
I hear things in the night. 
The landing gives out creaks. 
Enough to give me frights....

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Categories: overactive, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
The Others Part Iii
I guess this is where I step in,
But I'm not sure where I should begin.
What can I say, sometimes there's a need for disposition.
	No, I...

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© Onyx Perth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overactive, character, conflict, desire,
Form: Rhyme
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Gallows
The unruly mob beat me to death 
In the dank filthy street,
Before the scaffolding had its chance
To snap my whiskered neck
Beneath the bone crushing force
-...

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Categories: overactive, dark, death, humor, silly,
Form: Free verse
Remorseless Sweaty Palms
Remorseless sweaty palms

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent...

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Categories: overactive, 12th grade, anger, blue,
Form: Free verse
Fate of Mankind
Fate Of Mankind...

(this prognosticator ordains,
which if came to pass no brains)
necessary to impress any 
goo goo dolls, nor swains!)

Cited in crosshairs of  thermonuclear warfare
quite...

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Categories: overactive, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Panick
A silent touch, a cold 
caress
A familiar result of too 
much stress
My chest is tight, my 
knees are weak
My body is in imagined 
duress

I loved...

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Categories: overactive, stressme, me,
Form: Ballad
Stimulation: Me
De ja vu is seen right before my 7 senses...don't listen to the cries of lies...
Complete me...don't leave me empty - let my 6 become...

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Categories: overactive, angst, anxiety, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things