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Excess Poems - Poems about Excess

Premium Member the ache of excess energy
define its perimeters, suffer by them ~ I don't know how to get out bewitched and momentarily carefree I felt the need to linger with the energy storms push you sideways angst ridden soul, that I fail to repair ...

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Categories: excess, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Excess
The libido falls - Like many of the great walls - As performance stalls....

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Categories: excess, change,
Form: Haiku



Compassion As Tragedy, Part II
...You see it when folks speak of ‘the oppressed,’ determined to make sure “It’s all redressed,” if you’re ever suffered you need compassion, no matter the evils you yourself have done, so criminals who go riot and steal deserve compassion, their “struggle is real,” get let out early, or don’t face arrest… then repeat their sins in greater excess. And terrorists who target...

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Categories: excess, addiction, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Compassion As Tragedy, Part I
It seems to be a widespread trend these days, let’s have ‘compassion,’ countless people say, your empathy and feeling should rule all, “No one should suffer,” is the endless call. A child’s view of how the world should work, ignores how feeling ‘nice’ can break and hurt, forgetting what adults can plainly see: excess compassion leads to tragedy. You see it in families...

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Categories: excess, addiction, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rains Excess
The rain drops sporadically hitting every pain of glass till all is wet to touch the rain pours down deeply now splattering up on the grass till it's too much the rain runs a steady stream along the driveway crease washing away the leaves of winter's past filling the drain...

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Categories: excess, april,
Form: Free verse



Excess Dilemma
A man with excess of money IS not exactly lucky... But a wretch of fortune ! Or hazard... with enormous aplomb to agony and unhappiness...!...

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Categories: excess, adventure, allusion, appreciation, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Overflow Infliction
Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen Custom of one equates her eight hour day Has It All Paul wipes away gourmet residual ...

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Categories: excess, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Mount of Price For Molehills
He set no limit to his ‘always’, His ‘never’ was strewn all over ways, Man of excess he was, To blow up, his pet cause, For molehills, mount of price he now pays. ____________________________________ Tongue-in-cheek |05.12.2022| Limericks...

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Categories: excess, humor,
Form: Limerick
Nothing In Excess Is Good
When the search for anything looks exceeding, something must be wrong......

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Categories: excess, allegory, allusion, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Epigram
Excess Efforts Bring Success
Never deviate from you goal my dear Always pursue it with maximum cheer Concentrate showing fullest attention Give not room for possible diversion Only by chasing your goal you can win Your hope and faith must not be thin Let your mind be filled with determination All fears and doubts must get elimination Progress must be your golden principle Scope for optimism alone is...

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Categories: excess, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Overflow
it's the love of you i see in every wonder AP: 1st place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022 Posted on August 18, 2022...

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Categories: excess, appreciation, inspiration, love, perspective,
Form: Monoku
Excess Baggage
The harsh colors of yesterday's anger and the events that triggered it have softened with the night. As far as the excess baggage is concerned, I refuse to carry it into tomorrow; it only weighs me down....

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Categories: excess, anger,
Form: Free verse
Showy Show-Off
Excessive gifts serve to bless his show of largesse. December 20, 2020 contest: Bauk Than sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Categories: excess, 11th grade, giving,
Form: Than-Bauk
Parable 10: What of Your Excess
A rich man gathering much from his land decided to build more barns very grand. “I have plenty of stuff, indeed more than enough. My wine vats and my barns are now crammed. “I'll make merry in all this splendour.” “You fool, now your life you'll surrender, what then of your excess? ...

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Categories: excess, bible, christian, gospel, religious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Night To Remember
It can't have been the scallops Or the rump of Islay lamb, Washed down with white Rioja Followed by sweet meringue. It wasn't the skate au poivre Or smoked salmon canapes Nor garlic stuffed green olives Or the double chocolate glaze. The ruby red barolo Is surely not to blame (It was so very very good, We had some more of the same). The piquant piccalilli That...

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Categories: excess, drink, food,
Form: Rhyme

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