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Best Overlays Poems

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Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlays, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Languish
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlays, analogy, appreciation, heart, winter,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member A Gentle Touch of Autumn
The autumn comes, an open book
To satisfy our hungry eyes
But, sometimes things can't just be read
Not like a book upon a shelf
We can't just look,...

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Categories: overlays, autumn, beauty, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Drapes Slowly
Night drapes slowly around velvety skin
and gives comfort to an unfolding heart
As passion's eyes enclose time, we begin,
to foster love, so it will never part
The...

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Categories: overlays, love,
Form: Sonnet
Melodies of Sorrows
Over the chain bridge
shadow overlays the light
Danube is lazing underneath
silence is drifting in fright
You are standing on your tiring feet
An eerie feeling hovers over your...

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© Nirode Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlays, care, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse



The Battlefield With No Face, No Beginning, No End
when scorpions crawling on the boiling sands 
dance the dance of death with tail culled up 
the gaudy toadstools grow in the dark and dampest...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overlays, anger, child, death, war,
Form: Free verse
A Great Artist Is Always Before Her Time Or Behind It
As she clutched the embroidered paper, she wept, observing her tears sprinkle as they percussed the paper. Watching her droplets marinate, she was reminded of...

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Categories: overlays, angst, art, lonely, loss,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Shining Path of the Walkway
My hands are embedded in your skin,
And your body is rambling,
To the sea of a thousand waves,
>       I am...

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Categories: overlays, allusion, beauty, body, girlfriend,
Form: Quatrain
With Smoker's Hands
Through years of chuckles and vivid imagery,
They sit across from each other;
Inventing moment to moment another day,
Past transparent overlays.
Smoke encircles 
	new-found wrinkles,
In ends so filled...

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Categories: overlays, friendship, life, loss,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lanterne Phrasis 6 Rectied
LANTERNE PHRASIS 6
Honest innocence becalmed in sleep
on pathways that house the mind.
Simple,transluscent,form space
&mass made into one,an ancestor
of the surreal.Confetti spirals,
patterns of peaks&troughs in
contemplative mode.Intervals
that float...

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Categories: overlays, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Over Hill, Over Heather
Over hill, over heather
   Creeps winter weather
A thin mantle of snow
   Overlays the hedgerow

Wind whistles through trees
   As tiny...

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Categories: overlays, life, snow, wind, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Jewels
Spring Jewels

White feather tipped clouds
Design blue skies with a brocade
A coat of many colors nature dons
Her golden locks a Rapunzel’s braid

A braid made from overlays
Of...

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Categories: overlays, nature, spring, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Beyond the Quiet Face
Images of ghosts fly behind my eyes
I shudder
sometimes it's cold here 
below the belly of warm eyes.

If you could would you transcend?
Slip in between the...

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Categories: overlays, introspection
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Red Turtle's Gift - Redrawn
The “Red Turtle’s” Gift

God's Muse both saves and offers Grace to sailors lost at sea! 
His ‘Reasoned Love' has Seasons with "Red Turtle's" buoyancy
that floats...

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Categories: overlays, journey, life, love, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Glimpse
GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
A drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
It waits with longing intense, retains no tears
As...

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Categories: overlays, age, allegory, angst, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things