Best Overweening Poems
Below are the all-time best Overweening poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overweening poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically 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
The LonerChronicles 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 BlowfishOf 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
Hip, Hip, HurrayHip, 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 JourneyA 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 PoetA 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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Categories:
overweening, art, philosophy, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Hubristic PowerInscrutable 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 WeaknessThe 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 ImageDoor 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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Categories:
overweening, beauty, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
DO NOT MISS THE MOON, WHILE COUNTING THE STARSDO 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
cat astrophesThe 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
beverageTwist 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