Best Oversight Poems
Below are the all-time best Oversight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of oversight poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
oversight, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
oversight, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
PlaygroundPlayground…
Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...
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Categories:
oversight, age, allusion, anger,
Form:
Masnavi
Ink Well Spent
I'm a message poet,
with a diamond pointed pen
I crack the hidden safes,
and take a honest look within
Things people wanna keep secret,
dark things they don't want...
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Categories:
oversight, identity, perspective, poets, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The PsychostasiaThe Psychostasia
(The Egyptian Funerary Rite)
For seventy days I’ve been prepared
With oils and unguents ever so rare
And with linen bandages to and fro
Wound and wrapped from...
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Categories:
oversight, adventure, death, faith, funeral,
Form:
Couplet
OcotilloA sunbaked pile of dead sticks in the ground
I’m a divine oversight, it would seem
Hundreds of long spines poke out all around
Yet inside resides a...
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Categories:
oversight, beauty, flower, nature, spring,
Form:
Pantoum
The Miller's DaughterThe lighting, it was over-bright
and fraught was the miller's daughter.
It gave the miller man a fright.
The lighting, it was over-bright,
and damaged - quite an oversight.
...
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Categories:
oversight, scary,
Form:
Triolet
Aha Argh Oh My DogAha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?
Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact...
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Categories:
oversight, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken,
Form:
Narrative
Family TherapyFeminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most...
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Categories:
oversight, addiction, endurance, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Look Before You LeapGod give me the courage to change the things I can.
For I jumped out of the pot right into the frying pan.
I thought things would...
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Categories:
oversight, hope, imagination, life, me,
Form:
Rhyme
NeanderthalNEANDERTHAL
In times gone by, now recondite,
Neanderthal, erect, upright,
spoke softly, tones so lily-white,
and tried to put the world aright.
He taught us how the flame ignites
that wearing...
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Categories:
oversight, allegory,
Form:
Monorhyme
Say What
A gang of outsiders
say they gonna reform the government,
with a bad boy at the helm
Juvenile adolescents,
at Constitutional reform school,
are gonna be running everything
Say...
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Categories:
oversight, parody, political, society, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
ProvidenceIn disaster and war movies
the protagonist (Queen) and her immediate circle
are protected from anonymous death. They may die (one by one or all at
...
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Categories:
oversight, body, city, fire, god,
Form:
Verse
The Grammatical ErrorMy life begins at twenty years,
'twixt days' demands and childhood fears.
I ask myself what I've become,
To what hardships I must succumb;
And in this life to...
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Categories:
oversight, happiness, lifelife, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Getting Into ItWhere have you been?
We stopped taxing investments in worker-owned cooperatives
decades ago.
They all have missions to do one or two of two possible things,
To recycle matter...
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Categories:
oversight, earth, environment, health, humor,
Form:
Prose Poetry