Best Overturned Poems

It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the seaweed fields...

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I couldn’t understand the language she spoke,

at least not all of it,

but the emotion pouring past her lips, 

the tears in her eyes, her clenched...

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Football coach Bobby Bowden was never one to cuss
But refs make mistakes and coaches have a right to fuss

“St. Bowden” as he was lovingly called...

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In novels, love is the obstacle overturned by the ardent swain
In song, love is a grandiose solo in melodic chains
In poetry, love is fervent rhyme...

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"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins” 

The womb
is scooped like 
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost...

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It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean...

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As my time on earth now ends,
fret not, I'm not alone, 
you see god, my heavenly father,
just came and took me home. 
Heaven is my...

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This world has fallen into chaos 
Let's awake the sleeping demon
when a certain world leader 
has used from the forbidden book 

Totalitarian dictatorship under lies...

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From Willows California,
Comes one man’s poetic verse.
Who was once consumed by drugs,
But overturned that curse.

And with the grace of God,
He lives a clean and sober...

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Hoof beats...palpitate and pound,
A sudden rush...rapidly...rushes by.
Leaving overturned leaves in a swirling...whirl.
Pursuers...persistently follow the tainted...trail.

A Magnesian...mare crosses his mind,
A debt of dreadful...death woefully bestowed.
Death...the debt...

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Thomas was walking through his favorite part of the forest,
where the overturned giant oak tree has been a sitting spot
for him since childhood, the part...

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THE SUPERMOON AND THE SEA



The crimson sun goes down slowly cold and wet
At the gripping edge of the sea in the speckled sky
The swelling waves...

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he gathers bits of colored glass he finds
the odd bouquet of flowers past their prime 
the flotsam from the street
once useful in a former time
some...

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