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Best Overplayed Poems

Below are the all-time best Overplayed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overplayed poems written by PoetrySoup members


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: overplayed, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme



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: overplayed, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Customs To Getting Old
abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,

Customs To Getting Old  ©


There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is...

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Categories: overplayed, abuse, age, discrimination, health,
Form: Epic
Why
Why do I go threw this life knowing I have no purpose, 
Wife friends family around me tell me that I'm worthless.
I have felt alone...

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Categories: overplayed, 12th grade, anger, conflict,
Form: ABC
Uncomfortable In Our Own Skin
Im gonna help the sad faces that have faces ,
Redeem each part played in these bad places
And if I had a safety net, I'd be...

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Categories: overplayed, identity, innocence, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



The Best Gift Yet
 interlocking rhyme 

Some fellows like to give a lot; our presents, very rare.
Exchanging gifts is such a chore when timing is not fair.
Their endowments...

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Categories: overplayed, 11th grade, blessing, giving,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Trying To Live
Hey what did I miss?
Do I owe you something,
that every time I make a move in life you react?
Do I owe you success?
That every time...

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Categories: overplayed, anniversary, deep, life, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Plastic Vow
Waking up next to you is not what I had in mind
I know your inlove
but I wish we could rewind.
A vow was made
obligation overplayed 
why...

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© Erin Nash  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overplayed, love, sad, wife,
Form: I do not know?
It's Quiet, Suffering
it's quiet,
suffering, it's a quiet &
limp thing. questions
open like books
unread, under(stood),
dusty splintered shelf.
unable to maintain the
self contained war 
silent film overlayed
descriptions over &
overplayed; the maid
refusing...

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Categories: overplayed, allegory, introspection, life, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Much As Love and Hope Defeats Blackest Blight
Much As Love And Hope Defeats Blackest Blight

I shall walk from the dark into new light
Much as love and hope defeats blackest blight
So too, may...

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Categories: overplayed, art, deep, encouraging, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Clubbing It
Clubbing it
Once I went to a night- club in Albufeira a dreadful place with 
garish colours and a man with a Hammond organ also played...

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Categories: overplayed, dedication, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
Hungover
Whilst I hover here
wondering if i'll be sick
The hazy details of the nights debauchery
Become clearer with every retch, 
And nothing. 

Who took that photo with...

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Categories: overplayed, friendship, funny, introspection, life,
Form: I do not know?
Synchronized In Chords Fgh
Pictorial evidence of a moon beam dancing dangerously across a road with a stripped sun is only to be depicted by a jury who knows...

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Categories: overplayed, film, fire, firework, flying,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Christmas Magic - Almost a Sonnet
(But Love Got in the Way!)

Tell me what's there in Christmas that's magic to you?
Is it all life in general? Friendship that's true?
I'm not certain...

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Categories: overplayed, christmas, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Deficit Dump At a Zero Incline
Pictorial evidence of a moon beam dancing dangerously across a road with a stripped sun is only to be depicted by a jury who knows...

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Categories: overplayed, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs