Best Overrules Poems

Nation’s Damnable Blight

Black slender man, bent twig on the branch of a slave’s family tree,  
Planted in white culture during infamous time of our...

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Eventide is filled with the smile of stars - mother overrules them all.

5/13/2018...

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Night bewitches; romance can reign
when shadows fall and you then see
the light of day begin to wane.
Alone with your love you can be.

Stars flicker and...

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L- Love
O- Overrules
V- Virtually
E- Everything
...

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I am inspired by a contest theme to write a poem
The muse becomes a secondary thing.
Even if the muse is inspired, 
and I try to...

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A kestrel dips into an updraft
thinking he knows the world
tranquility gurgles 
through silent valleys
over mountains
around the earth
refracted 
through the wind

The creature soars ever higher
in great...

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THE ENEMY WITHIN



She’s in there arguing with my affirmations.

She's sabotaging my dreams.

She kicks my best decisions in the derriere.

She confuses my left brain, my god...

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note: St. Jude is the patron saint of hopeless causes

Didja ever feel like a summer snowman?
Out of luck, living on borrowed time,
constructed from leftovers sentimentally...

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(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost...

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FINGERS

An ultimate reach to the tips of desire,
That heavenly touch
Overrules the mind, sets afire

Salesman, preacher, teacher,
All circle, point, sign,
Being quite unconscious of their design

Fingers may...

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For the One I Know

In the ray of the rising sky
Will I raise my voice to the Most High
To glorify His Gracious name
The one that...

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Wings                        ...

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Like the Vikings who left us this word – ‘berserk’ 
some of us may have shown it through human reaction,
where we go berserk against disproportionate...

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Pacification


His horrid hunger
cries for total fulfillment;
overrules his mind.
Diversion is no answer;
addiction rules his sad world.

Pacification
is never the solution.
He will cry for more.
Starvation and withdrawal
may end...

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Touch the rising mist of cherry smiles
Herald cries of joyous miracles aflight,
Echo brisk allure of God’s spearing light
Cry in the bosom of Abraham’s seed
Refrain the...

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