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Best Overriding Poems


A Deeper Divide
Dreams herein, our progeny, still birth sometimes inside,
blind and rigor twisted, formless foetuses upon
the terrace steps where innocence bled and occasionally died
screeching for salvation when every shred of hope was gone.
Yet also soared in glorious flight, monstrous span
of righteous flapping wings in the stadium sky,
drummed...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overriding, passion, people, philosophy, sports,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Greenearth Patriots
All organic parties
committed to EarthTribe
as My HomeTeam
could become EarthPatriots
experiencing every day EarthDay;
which, of course 
we are revolving through
together,
more resiliently 
than ecopolitically polarizing
AnthroSupremacist Apartheid.

Speaking from our felt-within
multipartisan democratic
cooperative co-governing experience
in life's healthier
and safer feeling
thinking
green outdoor communication classrooms

For parents
domestic partners
clergy
healthy resilient cooperatively-owned corporations,
elected leaders of those greening...

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Categories: overriding, earth day, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Mystery In Black and White
 amphibrachic verse 

It looks like a kiwi
No, kiwis are fuzzy.
Then maybe a lemon?
or lime? I'm obsessed.

Am I getting closer?
Misshapened? an orange?
A colorless photo,
confusing at best.

The white seems so hazy
while black’s overriding
and grays run together,
an image in stress.

The point of this quand’ry -
I’m missing my...

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Categories: overriding, color, image, missing,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member An Oracle '' a Cautionary Tale''
An Oracle, ‘’ a cautionary tale’’

The man was called upon to help he went, heart full of love, not his own 

but (put there) questions and laughter..are  (you surely sent) then test the

spirits was a teaching the ‘‘executive Minister’’ applied, an overriding

rule his intent!...

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Categories: overriding, brother, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
In the Darkest Hour
Orchestrated plots from the birth of corruption
Meticulously cunning, blue print semantics
Shadows overriding sheer manipulation
Much more to its sleeves, sly gimmickry and antics

Overlapping smokescreen piling up to its feet
Diversionary tactics, garden variety
Principles dropped, conceded an utter defeat
Distraction thirsts for blood, hounds for the killing spree

When darkness...

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Categories: overriding, abuse, dark, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Chocolate
This smooth brown coloured ecstasy …
this soft textured sweetness of delight,
melts gently on the taste buds evenly,
satisfying passion with every loving bite.

Thank you to the Aztec Indians
of more than a thousand years ago,
who experimented with the cocoa bean,
and passed on an obsession we all know....

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Categories: overriding, food, sweet,
Form: Rhyme



What Is Love
Love is you 
Beauty on the inside and the outside too

Love is overriding the mad
Getting over the sad
Yet let go og those who had

For some don't know what to do
But those who do, knows how to pursue

Motivating and captivatingsets up the stage of a positive...

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Categories: overriding, africa, anniversary, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the Saloon
The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon


That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean and mean in his cowboy shirt
Weather-beaten face and western sun's tan.
Young man, hitch your belt tight tonight
We afixin' to race...

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Categories: overriding, art, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Saving Grace
SAVING GRACE

In the middle of the universe, I stand
Where it all revolves around man
Selling and consuming disastrous blends 
Burning the candle at both ends 
Neglecting duty, overriding beauty
This story of the ages, never told by sages
Who lived in the bell jar, with the fat cats...

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Categories: overriding, earth, loss, universe,
Form: Lyric
Seasons Come and Go
SEASONS COME AND GO

With a burst of colours 
Of a bunch of flowers
Promising to bloom
Spring clearly loomed

Such beautiful art
Moved my heart
Forming a smile
Visible from a mile

Sudden showers of rain 
Brought no pain
As they fell softly
Moistening lightly

Such refreshment
Brought contentment
Increasing flowers length
And renewing strength 
 
As rivers...

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Categories: overriding, change, growing up, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Soul Awakened
As I fall asleep, I exit one world only to enter another.
I dream each night of a man I never really see.
Within a crowd of faceless people, I know he's not too far.
What seems like a game of hide and seek, we finally do embrace.
It's...

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Categories: overriding, dream,
Form: Free verse
Exfoliation I Am
EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants 
Of a vitality that once was and has  been pushed aside?
      Am I only...

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Categories: overriding, allusion, bereavement, family, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Parable of All Parables
I, Oracle tool of eternal, placid in mental state. 
High-intellect mortal, dropping parables to educate. 
Special emotional properties, concepts of four elements. 
Fire; earth; wind; water, mind on matter transcendents. 

Fire akin to blood, therein lies real passion. 
Air present in yellow bile, links of...

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Categories: overriding, imagination, inspirational, mystery, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Agitation
For my soul feels agitated 
with desire for my rights
overriding reason.. desire
to overcome the oppressors
The yoke of oppression

The set of the system..
relegates me to a state
where i have to struggle
against great odds to be
accorded opportunity

Opportunity to eat
off the sweat of my brow
the set of the...

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Categories: overriding, community, corruption, deep, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
The New World Order
Freedom will now be defined as the absence of
Constraint to control, coerce, constrain or force another
Person (s) into believing what you believe.

Independence will now be defined as the forcibly enticed
State of being under the political “thumb” of another
Ruler and being “occupied” until such time as...

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Categories: overriding, history, introspection, people, social,
Form: List

Book: Reflection on the Important Things