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Best Overthrown Poems

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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...

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Categories: overthrown, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: overthrown, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form: Elegy
Trapped and Lost
Endless madness,                       ...

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Categories: overthrown, faith, hope, lost love,
Form: Free verse



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...

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Categories: overthrown, confusion, political, war, war,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overthrown, appreciation, art, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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...

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Categories: overthrown, mythology, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overthrown, birth, life,
Form: Other
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overthrown, america, chicago, corruption,
Form: Rondeau
Unpretentious Poetess
Unpretentious poetess,
refreshing inspiration
Brings me hope so I can cope;
graceful liberation.
To admire and aspire
to word my very own
without a care, evolving flare;
flaws I've overthrown.
For doubts have...

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Categories: overthrown, humanity, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: overthrown, angst, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heaven and Hell
You were just a fairy tale
a dream that sometimes felt so real
a secret I kept safely locked away
You were there and I was here
and never...

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Categories: overthrown, love, song-lyricme, dream, heaven,
Form: Lyric
The 2014 Stanley Cup Final
THE 2014 STANLEY CUP FINAL

The grand stage. The big dance on the ice.
Two teams have overcome against their competitors
To try and conquer the ultimate prize...
The...

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Categories: overthrown, desire, destiny, hero, hockey,
Form: Narrative
Mistry of Life
Same puzzle, same math

Same circle, same path

One bore, another go

one rise, another fall

Life’s full of unexpected coincidence and surprises

Won’t know what’s gonna happen the next...

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Categories: overthrown, life
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs