Best Overreaching Poems

Simplicity

Is a rope
And a note

Note

Sanity was a plea
Completely reversed you see
Behind the bars
Safe in the murky lurkings
Of Ambient sentiments and whiskey sour
The minds overreaching memories
Existed...

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I'm a speech punk; kind of a menace
Not sure if the word is permissible in these parts
But that's the word I need, life's a furnace
So...

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Her thoughts were like a great machine
Driven by a force of unlimited potential
Reactive responses tempered to produce such diversity
Each image a symbol that armed her...

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Always in such a hurry
Pressing forward, moving on
Reaching for that which you think you are due
Every moment of the day spent in pursuit
Climbing that invisible...

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Lustifully
Overreaching
Vainly
Eager


Sensually
Public
Rendering
Everything
Alternatively 
Disfigured
Sexual


Optimistically
Neurotic


Teenaged
Overdone
Always
Sexually
Tired...

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Ever have I fought,
Against God,
Against myself.
Ever did I struggle,
Always demanding,
Always overreaching.
Whatever I thought I wanted,
I was given,
I was granted.
Never the dream realized,
But, reality pure,
But, reality...

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They hated Nixon for being too formal
  though he made relations with China normal
They hated Ford for pardoning Nixon
  though his own future...

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just when she proudly posed as a puffing magic dragonette 

the bubble burst and a shiny sword punctured vulnerable skin

pierced the façade and made her...

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I toss a stone into 
The poets wishing well
Just to hear the echo
Of the overreaching quill...

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If you don’t grok (1) this does it mean
That I’m too smart and you’re not keen
Enough to even cut a cabbage,
Contemplate a simple adage?
 
If you...

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Overly possessing the karma, 
you sail in meditation.
Does creation tag along 
the destruction of self ?

The chain persists. You leave 
the theater. The ancient 
voice...

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tight rope 

Fear of the Unknown is
in my mind
The free-falling descent of my better judgement
I've gotten so high
The fear of falling is sickening
My eyes fail...

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When the flowers bloom
And the grass is wet
You know its spring.

When the sun shines
And your skin simmers
You know its summer. 

When your lies are outrun
And...

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11   Conservative Christian Activist Says He would rather be beheaded than wear a mask to prevent the spread of COVID 19
 
Conservative Christian activist
says he...

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You aren't overreaching.
You aren't living in a daydream.

It is possible.
Go get it child

Remember to own your dreams and remember that they are valid.


If it moves...

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