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Best Overtakes Poems

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Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...

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Categories: overtakes, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As Daylight Turns To Dusk
As afternoon fades
and the shadows grow longer
daylight turns to dusk

As daytime slowly comes to end, 
and twilight spreads across the sky; 
the stars in heavens...

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Categories: overtakes, love, night, romantic, sunset,
Form: Other
Premium Member Who Knows If Magic Exists
Who knows if magic exists,
if dreams come true
and whether miracles take place
(all of these things we thought we knew)

... buried in our haste
to dig childhood's...

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Categories: overtakes, appreciation, beauty, family, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...

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Categories: overtakes, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Season's Dance
The seasons vary as they come and go,
and each, a lovely lady, loves to dance.
Fair Winter glistens in a gown of snow
she wears whenever she...

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Categories: overtakes, seasons,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Where Poppies Grow
(Paul Callus & Eileen Manassian ~ March 2020)

Where poppies grow in brilliant bursts of red
and bumble bees go searching with intent
she often goes; there sits...

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Categories: overtakes, nature, romantic,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Where Poppies Grow
Where poppies grow in brilliant bursts of red
and bumble bees go searching with intent,
she often goes; there sits with dreamy eyes
suspending time, quiescent moments spent.

The...

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Categories: overtakes, devotion, longing,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Lady In Red
Yesterdays love
Buries me in memories
I long for times
When a kiss was truly an exotic marvel
I hug the sorrows of treasured losses
I, a man weep, silently...

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Categories: overtakes, beauty, heart, life, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Blowing a Kiss To You
Blowing a kiss to you as
                   ...

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Categories: overtakes, dedication, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Silent Running
The coolness of the morning air, rushing over me,
Silent running, sunrise, peace, tranquility,
Heart is pumping faster, breathing getting deeper,
Stride’s becoming shorter, as the hill grows...

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Categories: overtakes, happiness, sports, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Terrace
Huge red-orange sun slowly recede,
Upon the sky seem to bleed;
Whispers of night, calling home,
Such sunset days rarely spent alone.

Look ahead to starry skies;
Not time for...

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Categories: overtakes, eve, nature, nice, night,
Form: Rhyme
The Storm
A cold wind blows,
turning hardened walls to sand.
Breaking down the barriers
exposing the emotions that were held inside.

The pain builds,
from hurts buried deep within.
Storm clouds roll...

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Categories: overtakes, depression, friendship, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Even the Stars
When darkness overtakes
      and tears melt into sadness
I think to myself
     I’m not alone
  ...

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Categories: overtakes, hope, life, perspective, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound

I didn’t know, for it didn’t show for so many years.
The slowing steps, the memory gaps
The creeping years gone by.
Then one day, it came...

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© Deb Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overtakes, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where the Wind Blows
When Mother Earth speaks to Father Sky
She gently lets out a whisper sigh

A gentle breeze to send her kisses
Across the blue, she sends her wishes

Father...

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Categories: overtakes, nature, wind, , Lullaby,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs