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Best Overplay Poems

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Premium Member 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 gate
Moe, Larry...

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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,...

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Categories: overplay, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overplay, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
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...

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Categories: overplay, faith, father, forgiveness, patriotic,
Form: I do not know?
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,...

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Categories: overplay, beautiful,
Form: Lyric
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...

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Categories: overplay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overplay, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overplay, drink, food,
Form: Quintain (English)
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...

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Categories: overplay, anxiety, bullying, dark, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
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
If Only
If only the sun is forever blue and bright
I will have the perfect tan I ever wanted
And the heart will glow as shiny as the...

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© Regina Lo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overplay, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs