Best Overextended Poems
No Way Out
...We all know someone who has been depressed before.
We might have experienced depression ourselves. Being stressed out has become a integral part of life for many. Possibly we are withdrawn and feeli......
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Categories:
overextended, depression, stress, mental health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
One Night Only
...It’s been crazy these past few days
You’ve showed me so much
As your smiles pass my glance
And reunite with your soft, tender touch
Against my cheek you drag those hands
And press your finger ag......
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Categories:
overextended, anniversary, beauty, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Contagious Insomnia
...I've not been sleeping well
since early November,
about the time Donald Trump
was not just nominated by Republican Christian
White
Male Dominant
Evangelical Christians,
in some unholy alliance......
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Categories:
overextended, christian, games, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Ode Underwater
...I've got this listing, sinking feeling
that I owed most of my life to my bank.
Hands in the air, reaching for debt ceiling,
yet another fine mess, with no one to thank.
Guns all put down, the p......
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Categories:
overextended, business, education, funny, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Hey Descarte Was My Brother, Dummy
...Forecast aplenties with no degradations announced vertically, religiously or otherwise could have englanced my intuities to a mind over marketed by nomin al periods of intellectual cell growth, idea ......
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Categories:
overextended, allegory, appreciation, confidence, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Redemptive Economics
...Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private
sticky and prickly ownership
Including f......
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Categories:
overextended, happiness, health, heart, humor,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Foreclosure
...Financial difficulty
Overextended credit
Reach out for assistance
Employment hardships
Counseling is free to all
Let us help you avoid a foreclosure
Our knowledge is extensive
Successful alter......
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Categories:
overextended, home, house,
Form:
Acrostic
Very Bad News
...Anna left early from Soho
But still she got caught in the storm
Due at 5:30, it’s quarter to ten
She should never have driven alone
Maybe she’s parked at a rest stop
Or maybe some roadside mot......
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Categories:
overextended, angst, death, song-day, hate,
Form:
Lyric
A Fading Professor On a February Friday
...A FADING PROFESSOR ON A
FEBRUARY FRIDAY
On a cold, gray day
that made cold and gray
synonymous with abyss,
she came to his office with
two new drawings that advanced
her thesis about ecolog......
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Categories:
overextended, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Teeter-Totters
...Warm weather, teeter-totters back and forth;
Winter counterchecks every move Spring makes
to wiggle free from the grip of the north.
Winter has applied both feet to the brakes,
aiming to ......
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Categories:
overextended, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Epigram 3
...Epigram 3
If the universe has a limit, will the limitation
Be a wall, made of elastic a rubber band that
Can be overextended to the breaking point
A balloon that can be pierced at will, or l......
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Categories:
overextended, anger, color, confidence,
Form:
Epigram
Digging the Hole Deeper
...Digging the Hole Deeper
By Elton Camp
If you’ve dug yourself into debt too big
For sure, the hole don’t continue to dig
Credit was easy so folks overextended
Then suddenly, all that become......
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Categories:
overextended, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
She Had a Dream I
...Be truthful, supposing you were I,
Would you have not snub the thigh?
Opened its teaching; closed one eye
Move swiftly so shy
Rest weather to rely
Not on heart contemplating to comply
The weird......
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Categories:
overextended, allusion, art, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Amerika the Beauty Falls
...'America the Beautiful' was an uplifting poem written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1895.
I wrote this modern version to reflect on the sorry state of our nation today.
Amerika the Beauty Falls<......
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Categories:
overextended, america, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Who Am I
...This morning arrives as day is signaled by light
The stars yawn and retire as the day becomes bright
Gone is the safe harbor the shadow of night
Morning brings yet another chance to do things righ......
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Categories:
overextended, anxiety, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose