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Best Overthink Poems

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Premium Member Don't Overthink
Go with the flow
Where zephyrs blow
Parallel the weather
Light as a feather
Set it adrift 
Life is a gift
Open your heart
Play up the part
Let your mind soar
Your...

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Categories: overthink, confidence, dream, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Don'T Overthink It
Each of us live for the moment
As none are promised time
Not knowing which is our last
We make choices with that in mind

In life we bathe...

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Categories: overthink, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Overthink
Often I overthink
And my thinking goes askew
I feel myself sinking
And overthink anew

I question every aspect,
Of every written word
I try to find the meaning
Of complicated words.

I...

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Categories: overthink, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Not To Overthink
The light evening meal
Served under moon and stars,
Flickering candlelights whilst
Writing our memoirs.

Classical music; 
Beauty to my ears,
Gazing up to Venus, Mars,
Thinking biospheres. 

Accidentally tapping me...

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Categories: overthink, food, friendship love, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Things We Gain
We overthink the things we lose
but overlook the things we gain
ever mourning fire and flood
never praising gentle rain

We sidestep blessings every day
to favor troubles with...

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Categories: overthink, blessing, hope, life, thanks,
Form: Rhyme



For My Children
You’re all in charge of authoring a story
Of love and humor, suspense and glory
You’re writing starts with your very first thought
And doesn’t end til your...

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Categories: overthink, for teens, life, my
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loss of Faith
Remember when you got a bike
   When you were just a little tyke
You couldn't ride that bike at all
   The only...

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Categories: overthink, confidence, faith, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Don'T Bother Overthinking the Past
Just stop thinking about it,
Don't bother losing yourself to it,
Stop getting your mind overclouded
Don't overthink about it.

Past's not gonna change
Present's in your hand,
Future's awaiting you,
So...

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Categories: overthink, growth,
Form: Free verse
Gather the Dark Threads of Pain In Your Life
Simmering threads of Grace reflect through your life
Lingering thoughts protrude beyond the norm
The pain makes you overthink at times
This makes you believe you cannot gain...

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Categories: overthink, life,
Form: Free verse
Scorpio
This mind never shuts down, 
It makes my ears ring.
Sometimes I wear a frown. 
I overthink everything.

I analyze every subtle move,
In search of some motive,
Like...

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Categories: overthink, birthday, dark, november, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Made Me This Way
I write and write and then delete and then I write again
I think and then I overthink to overcome the pain
I smile at you, then...

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Categories: overthink, crazy, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shout
“Big”, it is a funny word, it’s loaded with triggers,
And can make you feel every emotion.
If you’re told “Hey, you look big”, you might overthink,
Collapsing...

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Categories: overthink, care, emotions, feelings, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Follow Your Heart
You've heard it said... "follow your heart"
For relentless desire bleeds for craven want
Yet when indecision weighs on life's many parts
Those opposed abandon not incessant haunt...

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Categories: overthink, age, best friend, conflict,
Form: Quatrain
On a Modern Mind
Tell me more about who's getting a divorce, who wants to have an affair with whom and of course, who has the greatest separation of...

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Categories: overthink, culture, feelings, humorous, satire,
Form: Free verse
Late Night Overthinking
Late night overthinking
Heart racing, made up situation anticipating
Feelings chasing, dread encasing
I return, rewind to the start, replaying the awful part.
When they said that, what did...

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Categories: overthink, cry, deep, emotions, mental
Form: Rhyme

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