Best Overstaying Poems

drumbeat of hell-bent youth

       yet bids us onward

         graying, fraying...

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flag holds onto porch
all snow has melted away —
leaves disappear too?

1/24/2018...

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Shallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly
 When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains  
Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite; 
    There, clinging forlornly against the...

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I have no place to call home
I have no man to call friend
Alone in this dreadful world
With the sky as my roof:
And the clouds as...

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What Life's Treasures And Sweet Gems Should Be

Life's gems should be,
more than anxiety, sad sorrows, cryptic words
Man existing should be,
more than blind, slavish-chained beasts in...

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To hell with them! I never think of them 
I forget they exist, until I spot them 
Then I get mad!

Oh yes, I loathe them...

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The sun has become the source of such anguish
I wish it would obscure itself behind the clouds
I long to see that lively flame extinguished.

It is...

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Unexpected Peers (An acrostic ode to Poetry Soup and it's members)	
(9.7.10)

Passion
Overwhelmed
Elementary
Thoughts.
Roaming
Youth
Saw
Out,
Under
Pen.

Prolific
Obsession
Engrossed
Time.
Rhythm
Yielded
Structure;
Observation
Unleashed
Power.

Pride
Offered
Extroversion.
Trajectory
Rose,
Yet
Self-doubt
Occurred.
Undercurrent
Pulled.

Pushed
On;
Expanded
Tools;
Read.
Yesterday
Stopped
Overstaying-
Usurping
Present.

Posted
Online.
Enjoy
The
Rhymes
You 
Share
Openly,
Unexpected
Peers.


            I haven't...

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It’s great living in a country town that still can offer peace,
when I come home from a stressful day to finally release
all the tension from...

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Yes, I have often seen, the early rising sun
when I wake to witness, another day begun.
But when I see tomorrow’s, it will surely be the...

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An eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in...

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A week ago, I went to a funeral,
A father of two children was died,
She was weeping terrible,
And blaming God for this punishment.

He was feeling pain...

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I had another lover over last night.
Loneliness.
Knocking on my door, even though he has his own key.
Beneath my silent covers he crawls.
Mummers moist against 
my...

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A monarch known as Flutterby
ruled her kingdom by being herself.
She encouraged others to do the same.

Visit every garden that suits your fancy
she told her subjects....

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