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Best Overwhelm Poems

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


Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: overwhelm, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Goodbye
I forgot myself today
as melancholic melodies 
overwhelm each beat
of my wandering heart.

The sanctimonious sun deceives
as a bitter breeze breathes
against sullen silent surfaces.

Recycled emotions penetrate
with a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overwhelm, absence, i miss you,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: overwhelm, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ambedo
As shades of grey overwhelm white clouds,
their rain tears begin to pitter and patter,
creating a pattern upon my skin.
Like a dehydrated petal, I taste their...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overwhelm, analogy, childhood, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories of Bygone Days
Memories Of Bygone Days


O' yes,  how well I remember her still
giant black oak atop big wooded hill
Those treasured days now long flown by
our free...

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Categories: overwhelm, emotions, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Walking On Water
I step out of the boat
Wishing to walk on water
Beckoned by the Faithful Son
Whom You sent me Father

But my gaze turns to the ocean 
As...

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Categories: overwhelm, christian, easter, faith, fear,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: overwhelm, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Phantasmagoria
Assaulting me!  The darkness comes to be
    in devil’s guise. Phantom haunts my mind;
  in sleep paralysis I cannot flee...

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Categories: overwhelm, abuse, dark, dream, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Never Cry
The mist from love found drifting in its realm.
Lifts only when the sun begins to rise,
And clears away the mist, to overwhelm,
In elegant colors it...

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Categories: overwhelm, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Blanket of Love
Two hearts emotionally tethered to each other
fear which one death may choose to visit first.
And as time passes, sadness swells
within their hearts thinking about it....

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Categories: overwhelm, anxiety, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Intense Feeling
Wit each line my soul drift away.
Heart still aching so each night I pray.
Life consume with pain veins fill with rage.
Mind still enslave.
Yet still standing...

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© Dion Bess  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overwhelm, lovepain, night, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Child Scream Out
despair hangs heavy 
in the air these days
 
but the only path
is through they say

an intruder in the midst
blowing his cold still drip 
into the...

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Categories: overwhelm, cancer, emotions, family, grief,
Form: Free verse
Capture My Heart
I know You desire to have my heart
I want You to have it too
But I do not know about how to start
My giving my heart...

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Categories: overwhelm, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Overwhelming
death cannot endure eternity ~ if it could we’d never be born   
          ...

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Categories: overwhelm, allusion, depression, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Purple Muse In Thought
The deep purple passion of love intoxicates
To fill life's chalice with wondrous wonder
Nothing exists in any realm which replicates
Nor has its power to cast a...

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Categories: overwhelm, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme

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