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Best Overruns Poems

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Premium Member Is Your Mind Free
Remember worries and fear overruns your mind.
Hope, joy, and love become hard to find.
With my faith, hope and courage combined. 
I find a deeper love...

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Categories: overruns, hope, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Swamp
murky water hinders view

vegetation overruns shore

crocodiles lay in wait



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Categories: overruns, nature, places, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Who Needs Red Tape!
It seems it takes reams of paperwork to get things done nowadays.
You can become so snarled in red tape that it'll leave you in a...

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Categories: overruns, funnyred, red,
Form: Rhyme
Night Life
As the beams in departure
darkness, they crawl slowly
taking charge and ready to rule
that surrounded shell above all
slouching in their aging gray
fresh again after sloughing its...

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Categories: overruns, life, people, philosophy, lost,
Form: I do not know?
Run Amok
Palpable hatred makes your nostrils seethe
As you inhale all the imagined wrongs
Grounded in ignorance
And no reality


A match is struck 

Martyrs are made
And fools are kings
Grievances...

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Categories: overruns, social, society,
Form: Verse



By a Friendship That Never Bends
The shadows of doubt 
          May cover our thoughts; 
      ...

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Categories: overruns, friendship, relationship, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Grace and Solitude
Hovering hemispheres habitual harmonics, symmetrical solitudes in their Sonics,
Mastering melodies with mnemonics, amidst approbation of acoustical avionics…
Stellar symphonies sailing Celestial Seas, applauding Angels aerially appease,
Birds...

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Categories: overruns, celebration, music, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
A Malady of the Mind
A malady of the mind
Dominates the will
As the surging river
Overruns the mill

Omnipotent craving
The bullpen cannot hold
A temptation unremitting
Annulling principle

No affection or reason 
Or threat of...

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© David Vr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overruns, addiction, drink,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Musings From a Foxhole
The sergeant volunteered me for guard this cold and moonless night.
I was rushed to the front as a new replacement addin' to my plight.
I don't...

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Categories: overruns, warhope, me,
Form: Rhyme
Always Assume
I live
where the other world meets reality
Always Assume


ignoring, staring
at blinding glances of sun rays

I die
alone in a crowded room
echoed stress
deafening what’s assumed

Assume wrong
and wrong you...

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Categories: overruns, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Dilemma
Smidgen ahead of a dreadful time,
shatters a dream of wiser thine,
rage dipped words, in their seize,
all in breach, of my sleeping peace.
Douse my fire, not...

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Categories: overruns, depression, life, love, drug,
Form: ABC
Raspberry Blood
her hands: blooming. sugar, hot
and humming. those wrists, sweet,
no longer sticky. yet stubborn,
reigning the laughter of two years ago.

her lips: fruit. ripe, or rotten, you
no...

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© Roanne Q  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overruns, death, depression, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Cost Overrun In Bolehland
Cost Overruns 

Here in Bolehland, one thing that can be observed and learnt...
It is that Government initiatives are noble and well meant...

Probably each working paper...

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Categories: overruns, allegory, allusion, anxiety, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Those Who Loathe America
For Those Who Loathe America

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Categories: overruns, angst, international,
Form: Rhyme
Big Picture Tease
Bogged down in the details,
  truth comes undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
  milk overruns 

Looking at the forest,
  seeing just trees

Pieces micromanaged,
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Categories: overruns, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

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