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Best Overdue Poems

Below are the all-time best Overdue poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overdue poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member An Empty Tissue Box
When pain hits hard, you might feel like your soul
is bleeding out, but there’s no blood to see.
Your body is the part that takes the...

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Categories: overdue, body, grief, pain,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: overdue, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Little Miss Spring
They say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
      and...

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Categories: overdue, adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its stream  

Saturating me with...

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Categories: overdue, desire, destiny, passion, true
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: overdue, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Bright Light Has Gone Out In Soup Creek
It was coming up for Christmas in the town of Soup Creek
Everyone was in good spirits and they had been all week
Jenna's saloon was very...

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Categories: overdue, america, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal...

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Categories: overdue, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry Recital
Good evening Ladies 
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only...

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Categories: overdue, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Memories and Mourning
Trickle tender tears - those that take their time
born to bathe and baptize bereavement;
dew drops cling to fragile petals of forlorn feelings ~

aged and alone
sentiments...

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Categories: overdue, bereavement, emotions, grief, loss,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a collaboration with Susan Ashley


Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for...

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Categories: overdue, art, creation, destiny, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Found Paradise, Its Valleys Wide and Soft Green
We Found Paradise, Its Valleys Wide And Soft Green

When your heart sang to this downtrodden and lost man
singing birds stopped singing to hear that melody;
I...

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Categories: overdue, appreciation, beautiful, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No More Soup For Me
I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdue, me,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member My Heart's Eviction Notice
I’m giving you two weeks’ notice
And then I’m evicting you
From my heart
You haven’t been paying your dues…
Lingering caresses
Entwining embraces 
Passion laden kisses
And loving whispers
Are overdue
LONG...

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Categories: overdue, allegory, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for dawning gleam across powdered snow
and she her handsome soldier to soon show
for...

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Categories: overdue, desire, husband, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Mermaid's Milk: a Collaboration With the Still Dashing David Williams
The moss clung tightly; making it unbearable to breathe, 
and she sealed her lips tighter than a clam’s— not letting the pain take over

As the...

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Categories: overdue, hope, mystery, me, song,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things