Best Overtone Poems
Days End
...The day is done. Travel dispersed, no more roaming.
Between dusk and sunset, it’s the gloaming.
I settle to watch, inspired by that instant moment,
When day gives over to night a regal bestowmen......
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Categories:
overtone, sunset,
Form:
Rhyme
Raspberry Kisses
...Raspberry Kisses
Silent kisses throughout the air.
Just like the wild raspberry affair.
Nowhere to know how,
Can they be found!
Now they are here,
Only to me you appear,
Fragrantly simple and s......
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Categories:
overtone, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Two Souls Lost At Sea
...Who am I to take her innocence.
To caress her untouched virgin fibers.
This is not a negative connotation of lust,
it's an intimate overtone to show affection.
I tell my heart to be patient,
y......
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Categories:
overtone, angst, devotion, love,
Form:
Prose
Get Ready 1275
...“Capturing my imagination of a candle in glorious blaze,
My breath extinguishing it to get ready for the dark night haze.” The Poet
Sunset’s glowing color of crimson and gold is in sight,
I se......
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Categories:
overtone, night,
Form:
Villanelle
A Piece of the Pie
...This was only our second date...
A Black Tie Affair...
...Set against an incredible view,
vineyards, waterfalls,
a plentitude of flower beds,
all just outside a charming postcard Tow......
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Categories:
overtone, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Gloaming
...Sponsor Mark Toney
Contest Name 2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 3
The day is done. Travel dispersed, no more roaming.
Between dusk and sunset, it’s the gloaming.
I settle to watch, inspired b......
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Categories:
overtone, sunset,
Form:
Imagism
Bells
...
Multitudinous bells secern the tones
as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones.
Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding,
others that linger with tedious ring.
Some little bells can echo a jin......
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Categories:
overtone, celebration, christmas, funeral, music,
Form:
Couplet
In a Word So
...There's a point blank
Just south of Soulsville
where common pit desires exude
extreme ego ratios rotating on human gutlike
socioshadow experientials. Slow slug immuno
pain gestures cloud coils......
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Categories:
overtone, anger, angst, class, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Not a Vibe
...'Play back that sound',she explained with bitterness,
'What's wrong?',I questioned,
I found out that she was severally harrassed at a conference,
"He won't be entertained by any room with his pro......
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Categories:
overtone, allegory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Vowel- Consonant- Contest
...Aboard the event train I watched over the undulating scenery ahead.
Whose eyes see into shadows ogling the unknown
What a basically exhilarating time indeed.
What other panorama undresses before ad......
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Categories:
overtone, art, journey,
Form:
Free verse
An Envied State
...Envy eats at my eager overtone.
Airing aspirations of me alone.
Resenting ruse, requiring need.
Festering famine, for you I feed.
Covet creation, I crave carelessly.
Desiring deeply, damn fear......
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Categories:
overtone, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Alliteration
Yesterday I'Ve Known
...peals the bell of sweetest sweet romance,
Where Mystic Rose begins to memorise the dance,
where love was sweetest ever known,
where passion was mesmerised and overthrown,
by the mystic wielder of......
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Categories:
overtone, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Unbeknownst To Rhymezone
...Making it known in the twilight zone,
an unknown, error-prone player reached a milestone
using follicle stimulating hormone
to produce a phytohormone clone of Alicia Silvestone
honed from a ......
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Categories:
overtone, fantasy, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Five Shades of Anthracite
...Five Shades of Anthracite
Triads of black white and grey in the middle colour in above and out within
Five silhouettes a passion play mix shadows dancing in the moonlit......
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Categories:
overtone, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Ear Brush
...clover me crimson
lover of ebony hue;
transfuse my blues
with caramel and myrrh;
brush the ear of my fantasies
with thy feathery tongue
until it's numb with pleasure,
tingling like the strings......
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Categories:
overtone, love, passion
Form:
Free verse