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Best Overweening Poems

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The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: overweening, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Loner
Chronicles of a long Distant Race

I arrive amidst all the chatter and confusion
that seems to haunt all pre-race activities,
friend greeting friend,
club member greets fellow member,
New...

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Categories: overweening, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Bando and the Blowfish
Of hubris, overweening pride, 
(a thing the gods can not abide) 
and all the hassle it may bring: 
of this, and blowfish, do I sing....

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Categories: overweening, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hip, Hip, Hurray
Hip, Hip, Hurray!

January 1 is New Year's Day!
  Is it special in any form or way?

Is there anything special in the Heavens to see?
...

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Categories: overweening, celebration, holiday, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew Scott Whar Art Thou *****
Matthew Scott, Whar Art Thou *****?

Nobody, but yours truly
bore deeply and countersunk
his spontaneity satisfactorily
lightweight corporeal mein kampf,
didst more than baptize or dunk

cuff, which admirably aided...

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Categories: overweening, 7th grade, absence, age,
Form: Bio



The Journey
A leaf in the wind
Floating to and fro
Knowing neither love nor hate
Until those who knew me
Looked upon my face 
I had not chosen them
But they...

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Categories: overweening, birth, destiny,
Form: Free verse
A Minute In the Mind of a Poet
A Minute In The Mind Of A Poet

this work was done,a death view of paradise
& probably not the end, of it last night
(what a magnificent...

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© Tom Valle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overweening, art, philosophy, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Hubristic Power
Inscrutable torrents of history shall crush
   him who ignores the lessons in his greedy rush,
      his rabid obsession...

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Categories: overweening, people, philosophy, social, death,
Form: Rhyme
Matthew Scott Harris Whar Art Thou *****
Matthew Scott Harris, whar art thou *****?

The following admission
honest to dogness haint no bunk
nobody, but yours truly
bore deeply and countersunk
his spontaneity satisfactorily
lightweight corporeal mein kampf,
didst...

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Categories: overweening, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Power's Weakness
The crazed obsession 
    to rule the lives of others
rends the ruler's humanity 
    into tatters,
feeds, fills and bloats...

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Categories: overweening, political
Form: Didactic
The Image
Door slightly ajar
Pushed far
It's the second storey
Hosting a romantic story
Furniture spartan and simple,
Not stately like her, but dull
The whirring fan, overweening 
Haughtily saying, 'I can'
The...

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© Vijai Pant  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overweening, beauty, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARS
DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARS
Do not be carried away by the deceit,
Of an oozing chant of a back palm’s stew;
For the...

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Categories: overweening, africa, anxiety, caregiving, day,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member cat astrophes
The pre-dawn rang
as cat choirs sang
in waring gangs
sharp and rank
before they sprang
with claw and fang.

Isn’t it an overweening piety
to think that diverse cat societies
would address...

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Categories: overweening, cat, conflict, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
beverage
Twist off the cap
Lay it in your lap
I'm your favourite beverage
Take a sip of your leverage
I give catering a double meaning
Leave the flavours of my...

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Categories: overweening, 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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