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Best Overturn Poems

Below are the all-time best Overturn poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overturn poems written by PoetrySoup members


King
Christ, the King of kings
Of whom my soul sings
Born in a manger
His life in danger
No palace, no bed
No place to lay head 
Walking everywhere
No carriage...

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Categories: overturn, jesus,
Form: Rhyme



Pizza Prayer
Tumble, crumble cornmeal, salted flour 
Stream olive oil
Feed water and toasty yeast with sugar
Crinkle, rumple, crease, and fold
Smooth a silky, doughy globe.

Cover, leave the orb...

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Categories: overturn, food, meaningful, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Pin Fishing
I remember fondly the summer when I was nine
Catching minnows in the creek was my favorite pastime
Except I called then pin fish, I had quirky...

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Categories: overturn, childhood, fishing, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Another Leader Emerges
From sagging huts up in the hills, 
We watched the tourists flash their bills. 
They piled our harvest on their plates, 
While soup and scraps...

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Categories: overturn, history, people, social, people,
Form: Rhyme
At Trickling's End
As winter brings shortened light,
as famine delivers harvest blight
So does violence yield premature burial gain,
scarlet tears of Noah’s premonition rain
Crimson tidal force,
deluge of cursed, wolf...

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Categories: overturn, allusion, imagery, metaphor, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member My Observations
All the eagles soar increasingly circular overhead my umbrella.
All the elephants thrash inconsolably tasting of trees umber.
All the earwigs buzz inexpressively surrounding oracles with uncertainty.
All...

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Categories: overturn, africa, animal, butterfly, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Star-Crossed
“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to...

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Categories: overturn, analogy, art, creation, fantasy,
Form: Ekphrasis
2018 Empoderamento Feminino Year of Entrepreneurship In Direct Selling
2018 - Year of Entrepreneurship in Direct Selling

To recognize the truth as truth,
live the opposites,
To feel everything in every way,
and be nothing, in the end,
but...

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Categories: overturn, business,
Form: Free verse
Grandma Aesop's Apples - Finale
Grandmother pointed out warning signs on the apples.
Her strong voice resonated as she referenced bruises and marks.
Her wrinkled hands brushed over minute holes and obvious...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overturn, lifewriting, grandmother, writing, Grandson,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Row Your Boat
Row, row, Row YOUR Boat
Gently down the stream;
Row with the flow of life t'wards YOUR 
Each and ev'ry dream.
Row YOUR Boat always,
Always with the flow,
For...

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Categories: overturn, boat, children, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Way Things Used To Be - Childhood Contest
i remember so well
The scrubbed  farmhouse kitchen table
where all activities were held
From eating to colouring in,where jigsaw puzzles were made.
I remember the large open...

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Categories: overturn, family, memory,
Form: Verse
What Am I Who I Describe
When pressed on skin I look tight.
Go right with any event in the summer, spring, fall, winter or night.
At my best in the morning but...

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© Mark Merk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overturn, beauty, career, education, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Smile Anyway
It is better to love and lost Well, you have heard the saying            ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overturn, forgiveness, friendship, funny, happy,
Form: Free verse
Put Some Church To It
Born in greed, torture and hate
I built bridges long enough to overturn my fate

Dire expectations…
I made sure I paid no heed to silly temptations

Interlude to...

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Categories: overturn, encouraging, faith, inspirational, me,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Gothic Girl
As the velvet darkness falls
A gothic girl illuminates her black candles
Creating a shade overturn atmosphere
Dressed in raven latex and fishnet stockings
Wearing black lipstick and eyeshadow...

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Categories: overturn, gothic, love, lust,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs