Best Overhang Poems

The young men sat, planted under the overhang
like the pansies and geraniums that surrounded them in boxes,
as the rain pelted the terra-cotta terrace.

The mountain air was sharp with the taste of lightening.
Having bid farewell to the arched shard of a rainbow across the valley,
they sat...

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apples overhang the orchard wall,
sun-kissed drapes now about to fall.

hedgerows ablaze with succulent sweets
will-power melts in a crumble


inspired by Constance's contest...

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"What is our life but a succession of preludes to 
an unknown song whose first word is surrender."

          Quote by _Constance


My life has been one of high cliffs and deep dark pits,
oh, the map of...

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 limerick 

There was a spring chicken named Brewster.
He was the school’s number one booster,
      but this spring he forward-sprang
      from the girls’ room overhang.
Now he’s called - the naughty old rooster....

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AUTUMN MOMENTS
			
Over the stubble ,
carrion crows---
the gamekeeper heads 
home for tea ;
apples overhang
the orchard wall;
drapes,about to fall
bright bonfire-coloured 
leaves aglow
overnight, 
the first heavy frost;
dahlia petals on the lawn,
dew-sodden; 
in the October dawn
Michelmas 
daises,limp and old,
midst fading leaves,
now spotted gold;
Summer petals
the landscape 
in a scarlet shroud;
dank...

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When I get tired of the concrete and tar
there’s a place I can go, and not travel far,
that hasn’t been touched by progress at all;
nature stands still beneath gums growing tall.

And in amongst shadows with sprinkled light,
there’s rippling water and birds taking flight,
a sprinkling of...

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King Cephissus lured Liriope
.  To bathe and frolic in his stream
   Entrapping her she lost all hope
   His favours now she must redeem 
   Her ardent struggles came to naught
   He ravished her, lust was the...

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As I enter the old-growth forest,
silent shadows hush whispering leaves.
And quiet descends like a curtain,
suppressing sound within its tight weaves. 

A transformation slowly takes place,
from a rough trail to a dense thicket.
And the woods swallow reality,
replacing it with something wicket.

Hairs on the back of my...

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You arrived on a splendid December day, as I recall.
I relived when we came home; I let out a large sigh.
I put my elbows on the overhang facing a mountain wall.
I sighed again vowed to be with you till you rise to the sky.

I sighed...

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In the wilderness of the greenest hills
   Where tall black trees 
Overhang the surroundings
   One finds the atmosphere
Like a person
   Living on the top of a hill in O'Ireland. 

The trees' leaves drooping 
   Over each slimy...

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abominate, abhor, abuse, admonish, adumbrate, afflict, advance,
agitate, agonize, alcohol, announce, approach, awaken, bait, bark,
bawl, bedamn, bedevil, berate, betoken, bluster, bode, bother, break,
brew, browbeat, bully, caution, censure, chide, clutter, comminate,
complain, complicate, confuse, cow, crucify, DAD, damage, daughter,
deplore, detest, devil, disarray, disorder, disparage, distress, divine,
embroil, enforce, enmesh,...

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Water, air, earth and fire,
they are all elements of life.
Secrets, lies and jealousy,
they are all creations of human nature.
Myths, legends and the common rumour,
they are all creations of imagination.
Then yet what are reflections?
Are they just a mirror image or are
they something more mystical? 
Human nature...

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The guards patrolled the Chinese wall
As they did every day
They did not pay much attention
Seems to be the usual way

A clink disturbs ones peaceful stroll
A three armed hook appears
Catches on the parapet
With one of its ears

The guards are so outnumbered
There is just one thing to...

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last Autumn colours -
lost in winter snow.

twin vapour trails
on sky November blue,
Canada geese in formation-
head south.

November sombre,December dark,
January,February cold and stark
Rain filled days of slush and muck,
webs on shards of gossamer shade
'til snowdrops matamorphise in the glade.

On the lawn strewn leavings 
of a ravenous raptor-
nature's...

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A fly lands on the roof.
     A crow perched on the lawn.
     Drops fall from the sky
     To darken all that's seen.

     The swimming pool stands empty,
  ...

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