Best Overplay Poems
A Mountain From a Pile...How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering unexplained death
The ripples keep expanding......
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Categories:
overplay, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Wow This Woman Just Makes My Heart Want To Fly...I met the most amazing woman today
So pretty, such a looker all the way
Everything about her had me reacting
In the most sensual ways
So interesting to talk with
I hope she wants to stay
Her ......
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Categories:
overplay, blessing, confidence, cool, cute,
Form:
Rhyme
A Funny Kids Fort...There once was a playful little boy his imagination 'Oh' how it would soar
dreaming of nights of dragons and forts becoming the warlord of his blankets
and cardboard.
On a weekend day he r......
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Categories:
overplay, child, creation, funny, happy,
Form:
Free verse
Field of Dreams...(World War One Poem)
Field Of Dreams
The World has stated our freedom,
the worms shall share a soldier's fear.
To look above my trench
is to be a thief in the night.
Life shall lurk, afraid......
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Categories:
overplay, war, daffodils, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet...
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio ......
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Categories:
overplay, fun, humor, parody, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Overplayed Hand...Having an inflated ego is detrimental to living a good life
It's a self-serving trait that can lead to tragedy and strife
One who's overconfident is arrogant, his hubris is rife
Overplaying his ha......
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Categories:
overplay, conflict, how i feel,
Form:
Monorhyme
Overplayed Hand...I had a brilliant moment of clarity, inspired by a dream,
a profound reminder that things may not be what they seem.
There's not always a clear line between evil and good,
like a wolf in sheep’s c......
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Categories:
overplay, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Theres a Pedophile In the House...There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)
OMG,... and he looks...
SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
absolutely NO WAY!!!,
would this sensitive,
res......
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Categories:
overplay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Elegy
Wonderfully Made...Verse 1
To go beyond comparison, no place to overplay
The potter of unique design, brought new life to the clay
Unwholesome talk, within my walk, of that I will release
I’m truly made in your ......
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Categories:
overplay, beautiful,
Form:
Lyric
The Prayer To God...Let's jump straight Into The Fray. But before I do, to God I will pray. I will say Lord please let not your people be led astray. Lord if you find our hearts to be Grey, please Lord let our souls no......
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Categories:
overplay, faith, father, forgiveness, patriotic,
Form:
So Tell Me If...I left my naivety back in the hood
to explore the empathy in my heart.
And deep in my soul I feel that I’m good
somewhat smart, but don’t overplay that part.
I’m humble, yet I’m kinda p......
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Categories:
overplay, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Quatrain
We Place All Our Faith In God...I have this new found strength
Presence like the flow we have come to know
The peace I feel from this very real ordeal
That Satans player tried to bring our way
You are here with me to stay
No w......
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Categories:
overplay, anxiety, bullying, dark, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
A Meal In Five Senses...Within an overplay of paneled oak
and illumination fittingly low,
set upon a table, its style baroque
a lighted candle, its shimmering glow
plays an unopened bottle of Bordeaux
Distant soft mu......
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Categories:
overplay, drink, food,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Streamlined...Like when bagpipes sing
from far away
Its streamlined music
not overplay.
The soothing flow
of something pure
A sound that lets my
heart feel cured.
Its hard to appreciate
the way this ......
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Categories:
overplay, faith
Form:
Rhyme
Defecation accidentally clogged...Defecation accidentally clogged...
for the umpteenth time
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks
on porcelain throne id est
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to o......
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Categories:
overplay, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing,
Form:
Free verse