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Best Overspill Poems

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Graceful, Disgrace
The lilies were excessive.
Bless her, she does her best to
Lift the funerial hush
That's settled on this damned household.
Get them out,
You can't contain their boisterous bloom
To...

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Categories: overspill, life, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overspill, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member String of Poesy
A little light entertainment on another wistful people distancing day...

The Owl and the Puddycat went to sleep
tucked up cosy and warm
Till Little Boy Blue come...

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Categories: overspill, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overspill, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hippopotamus Having Hyperactivity
Hyperthermia can be caused by standing in slip streams in sluice dumps. It never really fails if ice water can run a lake from a...

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Categories: overspill, beauty,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Four Funerals and No Weddings
The past few weeks have been so tough
As you can clearly see
Four funerals for us to attend
But its not made me teary

The first was Aedan’s...

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Categories: overspill, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Let It Out
What's behind the smiles
What's behind the sparkle in your eyes
Is it tears?
Fears?

The laughter
The craziness and banter
The fun weirdness
The mere queerness

A wall you put up to...

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© Gretyl F.F  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overspill, anxiety, divorce, family,
Form: Lyric
Letting Go of the Past
Leave your past behind,

 take a look with fresh eyes.

 View the world with heart

 felt emotion, love and

 devotion. Your eyes were

 wide shut,...

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© Andy Craig  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overspill, faith, heart, heaven, inspiration,
Form: I do not know?
Well Now Then
A template swap is a switch over to a swimming sword. Swordfish are very pleased at this and dunk their noses into goblets in a...

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Categories: overspill, baseball,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Behold Each Surprise
Behold each surprise, like the wise
Bliss magnetism fills us
Ego illusionary dies
Bubble bursts without fuss

Witness consciousness, still
Nectar doth overspill
The joy we feel, His will

Cascading bliss rise
Behold...

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Categories: overspill, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tension In Sight
Electricity
Tension overspill weathered
Sparks chain lightening








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Categories: overspill, nature
Form: Haiku
Aaaaccchhhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The pointed ears of a snail can be quite ornate really. Especially if adorned with precious stones as earrings. Buffaloes bulbous brows bear banging bunions....

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Categories: overspill, art,
Form: I do not know?
Winter Rain
The storms of earth way 
Searching for the next shot to quench it's thirst today
Colors scintillating into the thundering airway
Creating a glowing natural fairway

Winter wants...

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Categories: overspill, earth, rain, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Thankfulness From Birth To Death - 1 Thessalonians 5: 18
Looking back over all of one’s life
one was to stop and ponder so much
so many roads I could have went
but through it you see God’s...

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Categories: overspill, birth, death, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Macabre Body Art
Dead glass pipes reproduced singing drops to pitter patter amid flesh. 
Flesh stretching between two flinching to open lids. 
Pale blue lips creasing blisters that...

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Categories: overspill, art, body, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things