Best Overgrown Poems

Silence had consumed him, since the time
she left for eternal peace and now she only
visited him in his dreams.

With headstone covered with moss and 
overgrown vines he couldn't believe that
too many years passed in loneliness.

Her carved name was hardly visible even
in bright sunlight, but he...

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Its Big, Its Hairy
Its coming after you
It smells like old dairy
Its going to crack a fuse

It has a secret, I must confess
There is no way to stop its awful smell
Closer and closer, its coming to town
It looks like it came from the core of hell

You...

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I've wandered this old graveyard a thousand times.
Cracked and broken stones rise up like a long-deserted town's skyline,
Each marking a last breath, heartbeat, supplication to God,
Each the only reminder of a soul no longer walking this earth.

The stones are old and weathered, worn grey with...

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Overgrown With Vines


Three meatless, boney, fingers clawed
at the hard dirt, glistened in the emptiness,
cursed the damnation of the full moons lie.

Death and the shallow grave had come quickly
a sharp metal edge the instrument of both.
The vines, the ever growing, ever reaching

strangling vines had come much...

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Upright
Overgrown tree
Full with shadows
Still longing for the sun
Looking for the glowing orb
Needing warmth

Russell Sivey

A Vignette...

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I'll never know what it's like to work hard and long as my dad does just to keep a roof over our heads and good food to eat. I'll never know what it's like to have asthma and be sick all the time (I'm too...

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What do wars do, really,
Except fill coffins
And long strong black cars.

The dead are their business,
Laying up death for rainy nights,
While in store houses stink

Of stories cut short at the slabs -
Stack up like crates;
Pushing to be going.

And yet these neatly packaged lives,
So tight with memories,
We...

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At early twelve,  motherly words echoed
Of the self,  becoming a lady one January eve.
No, it can’t happen, as a pale navel ached when
Another unintended milestone had begun—

Those rubber sneakers fondly overused died
On a  pink carpet, that I could not understand 
How unusually...

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I'm pouring my heart out on the page, but no amount of words nor good intentions could undo my selfishness. How could I not see what was right in front of me? How ignorant must I be not to notice such loveliness? I thought I...

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Spring is here as well as the weeds,
they are growing profusely all over,
thinking about weeding the front garden,
it means bending down and yanking,
as they scream and are chanting.

Determination is my mood as I pull,
each time I approach them they cringe,
not wanting to be the next...

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Outwardly I love the outdoors
Internally I hold resentment

I hate the loneliness
Despise the isolation
Loathe the alienation
From the rest of humanity 

There is no escape
As one is incapable of flight
15 minutes to the nearest business
And 15 more to public transport 

I mutter to myself
As I wander this...

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I'm not quite up to snuff,
should the wind give me a puff
I'd simply fall over
like a worn-out clover
that's lost its own shadow
in an overgrown meadow...

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You say your room is a confinement 
where you’re forced to have tea parties with your greatest enemy; your thoughts 
But looking through your window from the overgrown path,
You room looks like a palace to me
And as far as I can see, there’s no crusade...

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You open the door
And hear a creak.
A longing for what once was,
But never again will be. 

No souls lie contained.
Only memories live here.
Do not be afraid,
It’s only a House, dear.

The Old House is lonely.
Look at Her flowered walls.
Together they were family,
You can see by pictured...

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Hedge

Nature won't be tamed
His hedge grows tall, needs cutting
My view is softened






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25 June 2022...

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