Best Overlays Poems
Below are the all-time best Overlays poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overlays poems written by PoetrySoup members
PortraitPaint 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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Categories:
overlays, art, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
LanguishThe 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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Categories:
overlays, analogy, appreciation, heart, winter,
Form:
Rubaiyat
A Gentle Touch of AutumnThe 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
Night Drapes SlowlyNight 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 SorrowsOver 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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Categories:
overlays, care, loss, sad,
Form:
Free verse
The Battlefield With No Face, No Beginning, No Endwhen 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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Categories:
overlays, anger, child, death, war,
Form:
Free verse
A Great Artist Is Always Before Her Time Or Behind ItAs 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 WalkwayMy 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 HandsThrough 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
Lanterne Phrasis 6 RectiedLANTERNE 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
Over Hill, Over HeatherOver 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 JewelsSpring 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 FaceImages 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?
The Red Turtle's Gift - RedrawnThe “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
GlimpseGLIMPSE
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