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Best Overwhelms Poems

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Premium Member Embrace That Love, Romance That So Overwhelms
Embrace That Love, Romance That So Overwhelms

Sad and alone, missing your breath again
my heart's softest beat, my one truest friend;
with your smile a dawn's symphony...

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Categories: overwhelms, art, loss, love, missing
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Musical Notes
When things get rough
Music takes me away
Whether, notes fall with tears
Or melodies relax me,
I am released from all 
That overwhelms me
The music carries me, 
When...

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Categories: overwhelms, appreciation, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Since Birth
Eyes open mine since birth.
An old soul, seeing the world twice.
My mother's smile her mother's smile;
never changes, sadness overwhelms her face, still.
The sun comes, more...

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Categories: overwhelms, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
My Karma
For miles silence reigns
For years solitude,
My heart is heavy
My spirit low
And I have a long way to go.

In life's eternal journey
I walk alone;
The night is...

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Categories: overwhelms, life, loneliness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Heat Source Hunger
Wonder not
if my thoughts are thrilled and twisted
daily and deeply by the albums of your ways,
I succumb severely to the impulse of imminent interplay
so dumb...

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Categories: overwhelms, love,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Biggest Loser's Sundress
Colorful flowers and spaghetti straps
And my flabby arms from seams overlap
    But the sundress still beckons
    It’s diet time,...

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Categories: overwhelms, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dark Surrender
for days he follows   a man dressed in black   eyes fathomless pools
I feel his yearning    his hunger ...

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Categories: overwhelms, abuse, dark, evil, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That's Poetry
When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.

As dawn's hues glisten...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overwhelms, poetry, poets,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member New Year
NEW YEAR

snow is melted
the ruin that is winter
overwhelms my eye
beneath the sun trees stand
like crowds of ragged beggars

the once beautiful
is denied all memory
of where it...

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Categories: overwhelms, seasons, new year,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Simple Mutterings - Only the Rain Answers
in my dream he watches and I feel his desire
his need and I fear it, yet something lures me 
I sense him in my dark...

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Categories: overwhelms, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
I Love You
how do i breathe
when you are my air
i am lost & incomplete
without your calm voice..

inside, i shake uncontrollably
as tears stain my face,
no longer an us...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overwhelms, angst, devotion, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tomorrow and Yesterday
I tried to look for Heaven
It was nowhere to be found
There were many people dying
all laying on the ground

It wasn’t just one country
The big and...

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Categories: overwhelms, angst, christian, god,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Unparalleled
Sitting on the beach in the dark of night
anticipation counts every heartbeat.
And when waves wash ashore in the moonlight,
I laugh as the tide tickles my...

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Categories: overwhelms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To the Prodigal Child
If I could deliver myself to you 
on a silver blanket
that is prancing upon a lofty cloud 
with wine and cheese and all that you...

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Categories: overwhelms, child, love, mother, my
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M So Excited
His voice is like a kiss
Whispering against my neck
A gentle, tender hope
That helps me to accept

His timing is just perfect
For soothing my heart’s worries
Helping me...

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Categories: overwhelms, appreciation, best friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse

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