Best Overthrown Poems
Check Mate
...Go ahead and make the first move,
but take care
One or two spaces so I can move
to my square
Game of life, I’m queen defending
my king
Pawns, so many seem such
insignificant a......
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Categories:
overthrown, love, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Sockdologizing Old Man Trap
...You sockdologizing old man-trap long decayed
where claws curl tight in dust and brittle bone
your lies are hyenas dancing in the flame
their jaws a rattle tearing flesh to stone
their laughter cr......
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Categories:
overthrown, betrayal, corruption, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Epic
Apartheid
...Africa's children blighted in the rich land of birth
Persecuted by the oppressing hand of foreign greed
Agitate for love to find in ancient pigment its worth
Rights of human beings trampled like comm......
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Categories:
overthrown, people, children, , cute,
Form:
Acrostic
Masquerade
...Living in a masquerade
Hiding our truths in the shade
Veiled Behind electronic devices
The Physical world Minimises
Concealed behind a blue and white light
No melatonin released at night
O......
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Categories:
overthrown, addiction, computer, slavery, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Memoriam For Donald B Buchanan
...Who will weep for my noble prince? Who will cry
With belly swollen with sorrow, and tears long
As the Black River? Who will hear the clouds sigh
And turn black over red clay, and being strong
Not......
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Categories:
overthrown, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form:
Elegy
Trapped and Lost
...Endless madness, 02-12-2000
blurs my mind...
I look around
and can not find...
Any Peace or Reconciliation...
There is a war deep within myself...
These dem......
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Categories:
overthrown, faith, hope, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Devil's Dance
...It's the devil's dance, he is a chancer,
As he tries to take this life to cancer.
The news to fill your heart with dread,
As you, process words inside your head.
This news it brings a bitter st......
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Categories:
overthrown, angel, cancer, dark, recovery
Form:
Rhyme
Man Is More Than a Vessel Stranded Out At Sea, Second Tribute Poem To Dylan Thomas
...From blog,
That Life Extends Its Seeds Beyond Our Mortal Coils,
Wherein Truth And Light Sets A Saving Path
My Dylan Tribute poem,
Second poem
Man Is More Than A Vessel Stranded Out At Sea,
......
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Categories:
overthrown, appreciation, art, inspiration, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Lies Are Sold and Bought
...That fateful, tragic day of 9/11
was a busy one, for Jannah and Heaven.
The day the seed of war was sown
dictatorships the US wanted overthrown
no wonder the worlds overdraft has grown!
The truth th......
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Categories:
overthrown, confusion, political, war, war,
Form:
New Wineskins
...The old, relaxed; we pour ourselves a glass.
There is no need to stretch or change our way.
We know the flavors here; the only task:
ensuring it is just like yesterday.
Like sediment, this attitu......
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Categories:
overthrown, birth, life,
Form:
Other
The Empress
...Once I sat upon your throne
to visit a familiar chair
I am the Empress overthrown
I no longer rule or scare
My face is in the picture
since 1968
There is no kind of stricture
I'm sitting at th......
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Categories:
overthrown, mythology, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
a shatter of silence
...
“A fight of voice exceeds one of fists.”
Bludgeoned, broken, cast away,
Time devours, your name decay,
Ascend beyond the gilded throne,
Unsung, unrested, still overthrown.
......
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Categories:
overthrown, angst, appreciation, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
A Day Within Days- Rondeau
...
How free I was, I did not know.
Growing up in Chicago, oh
Police in blue, protected streets.
Life was sparkling and sweet.
Verdant lawns were so gleefully mowed.
Evil forces......
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Categories:
overthrown, america, chicago, corruption,
Form:
Rondeau
Autumnal
...Autumn draws closer day by day
From far is heard
The screeching of a lone bird
Voicing its dismay aloud
Over the impending fall
Here the moss scrawls
Ugly pictures on the bark of ......
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Categories:
overthrown, angst, death, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Why do I love God
...
Why do I love God? Why do we adore?
For me, it's simple: He created me, and more.
In His image, I'm crafted, a work of art divine,
A reflection of His love, a heart that beats in rhyme.
He lo......
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Categories:
overthrown, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse