Best Overgrowing Poems


Aurora Spills
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"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the s......

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Categories: overgrowing, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Walk To the River
...A scarlet tanager sits primly on the rail
Of the new fence erected near the meadow,
He eyes me stroll as I take in every detail
The path to the woodland is rather narrow,

Infrequent......

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Categories: overgrowing, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Quatrain
Of You, This My Journey
...Of you, this my journey 

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Wide eyed illusions
of spring flower wishes
With maple trees dotting
the land that I seek

Open and lonely
I stroll through the valleys
Where grass......

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Categories: overgrowing, good night,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member A Foolish Trek To the Meadow
...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound
As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around,
The bees are busy working on milkweed flower
Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc......

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Categories: overgrowing, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form: Couplet
Ocean's Body - Rondelet
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Ocean's body
old footprints gone before I come
Ocean's body
with flower's toss, overgrowing,
old footprints gone before I come — 
the fall of the tide falls in love
Ocean's body......

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overgrowing, deep, flower, innocence, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn's Breath
...Autumn's breath is swiftly blowing
Trees and branches gently bowing
Leaves of red and yellow strowing
Over streets and gardens going

Leaves are turning, tumbling, showing
Autumn's breath is swiftly ......

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Categories: overgrowing, autumn, nature, red, seasons,
Form: Quatern


Premium Member Dear Grandpa
...Dear Grandpa,

Are you aware that you can still get social security income if you act now?
Did you know that Capital One and Visa want to give you credit cards?
Magazines offering tractor and far......

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Categories: overgrowing, family, farm, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member But Never Forget
...But Never Forget

Stoned out his lonely mind and drunk on booze and oblivion he headed straight 
into memorial abandon doomed and entombed smashed forgotten and lost forever

He once was Jack bu......

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Categories: overgrowing, death, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
The Missing
...Memories shift through generations; pictures yellow, fray across the currents of time, worn and torn. Hushed stories talk about a life taken away too early, bone fragments in the mud, saltwater grave......

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© Steve Zak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overgrowing, memorial day, world war
Form: Narrative
Rays of Hope
...While in a gloomy dream of loss
With not a single smile or cheer,
My heart bearing a heavy cross,
My mind overgrowing with fear,

A radiant shine I saw amidst 
My darkest, deepest sea of tears,......

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Categories: overgrowing, dedication, faith, hope, me,
Form: Narrative
Bad Moments Jumped
...Go ahead just tear me apart inside…giving me no way to reside. 
I dare you, hurt me one more time.
There are times I wish you would never exist. 
You’re the overgrowing cyst. Just won’t go away.
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Categories: overgrowing, angst, confusion, depression, me,
Form: Rhyme
Beggar Child
...Lone baby craving forgotten plays
Without holidays your aching days
A distant uninspired walker pays
While others will not see your dismays

Cardboards covering and biting fasting
Local shops c......

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Categories: overgrowing, childhood, poverty, solitude,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Sonnet No 2
...Winds a-blowing, graves are bending to the colour grey,
Leaves are dancing; light is dimming on the names of dead,
Yours amongst them sharply screaming name of love we had,
Empty graveyard......

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Categories: overgrowing, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Pink City
...At the edge of the Thar desert,
the reposed stilled sands sculpted
petrified waves of old dunes buried 
in the carved rocky pediment 
of the rolling train of the Aravalli hills.
The contorted co......

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Categories: overgrowing, art, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Humility
...Coiled up for winter slumber it had rested the budding pledge

Soil still moist the promise is waiting for blossoms and sedge

To give host to migrating birds returning from busy regeneration

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Categories: overgrowing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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