Best Overload Poems

It was a sultry summer eve
When what did my nostrils breathe?
Methane with a touch of green grass
Permeating across the room
Look to the right and look to the left
I swear that weaner giggled with a smile...
As I threw her out the door....

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What’s left of my mind
when I open my mouth
is the part I could never say.

What’s left of my mind
when you open yours
is a place I hope we can share
free of alone-ing despair.

What’s left of my soul
when you open my eyes
soars through our blue 
and brown...

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Dark silence I embrace

Dark silence slows the pace 

Dark silence cuts my frustration down to size

 

Dark silence quiets the chase

Dark silence relaxes my face

Dark silence cools my eyes

 
By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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We have politics, politics, politics, up to our necks.
They duke it out daily on Hannity and Glenn Beck.
Don’t forget Megyn Kelly that stirs the pot,
An unbiased media is evidently an afterthought.

Trump and Hillary are as different as night and day,
Both crying foul play with the...

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Darkness consumes me
Corrupted thoughts take over
Soul becomes hollow
Self castigation occurs
Tears of blood destroys all hope...

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Turn up the radio
jump start the chemicals
What did they say?

Well, you're not an animal
a definition of zero
Attacked by the genes
of a century of shame

Don't make me say it twice!

You're a believer
a pretty little deceiver
the aftermath of purgatory
when the story ends
you'll say it again
say it again!

Don't...

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On razor-edges, Chinese windchimes tinkle and peel,
eclectic charges skip, crackling and white,
from synapse to synapse.
Neck muscles then cord, piano wire strained,
arched spine, gruesome human bow, neither arrow nor target;
spittle-flecked lips morph shades of Arctic blue,
glacial, foaming soundproofed mantras against dead audilogy.
A hard rain teems, lancing...

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once again I drew a line

you stepped over every time

this time thick indelible ink

so much stronger than you think



not to wander to the past

there was none when I look back

you thought I would hang around

hovering ever in your background



I tried to make it perfectly clear

but...

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cut off
deprived

magnetized
sensitized

to crave
desire

ache
the longing

touching
caressing

skin tingling
reacting

sensations
heightened

devouring
sole passion



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on May 21, 2022...

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i’m tired of being nice
of smiling and shaking hands
and clapping people on  the back
my patience is wearing thin

i’m sitting at the kitchen table
lightening a another cigarette
my second pack today
watching the moon
fall below the hedge
and the stars making promises
they can’t keep

the silence is not my...

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It's Friday again when the nagging boom
on my mind dissolves for a while
from the thievery  of work's week--
a pulsing chest asks glaring red lights
to stop bossy voices which demand
an overload of  chores beating timelines
from nine to five o'clock busyness, on and on--
I claim...

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Winter bought rights to long life ~ in command
of blizzards, ice storms, unusable roads.
Iced windshields, snowmen--whatever's on hand.
Heat overuse caused great melt overload.
Alas, Winter thawed--and found he'd been snowed.

~Snowed, in this sense, means overwhelmed with lies,
taken advantage of~

December 13, 2021
For Winter Quintain Contest
by Francine Roberts...

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All I want is red in bed
I don't think it's much to ask
red sheets, red hair, red hot love...
will my heart survive?




For "Red" contest sponsored by Francine Roberts....

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I strive to write cause to think.  
   My thoughts are smog, the words in fog.
   Mine heads a buzz all full of fuzz.
   I've blew a fuse,no need to fuss....

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alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with my toothbrush
Scratchy, painful bristles
Toothpaste that makes me sick
With the strong mint flavor
Back to my room going thru clothes
Too scratchy, too...

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