Long Overachiever Poems

At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his erection
For his love life it was a massive blow

To the hospital fled poor...

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I’m so siced about the Barbie movie. I just watched the latest trailer. I felt a fluttering in the stummy.

Peter’s birthday was May 1st. “What do you want for your birthday?” I’d asked.
“A flash for...

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I may as well concede the obvious. I was an incorrigible workaholic,
Who was always so driven to succeed, that working replaced all frolic.

I was the co-owner of a business, along with my lifelong best friend.
Together...

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There is a sense of wonder in your eyes
I can't understand your marvelous cries 
I am surprised by your approval to let me go... I thank you wholeheartedly, you know? 
I'm left in pieces in...

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The Rain…(the reply)(By: Lakeyia Clark 09/05/09)



If it’s always a rainy day...how can I see the sunshine
If the clouds never move...am I wasting my time
The clouds are like giants that I have to face
I’m an overachiever...

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a single drop
escapes and shapes
the one reforms into the many
forces merge and maintain the center
as an ocean to a clear running stream
effortless delicate movements
the beautiful semblance of creation
only free when infinity extends an open hand
we...

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I drink my root beer
with soggy fries
soiled buns
Hamburg runs
while watching the tube
in an unsightly nude
give me a Draft or an A&W glass
sitting in this position, it hurts my advancing Ass
AMERICAN IDOL:THE OLD FOSSIL REVUE
Plenty of...

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That's all science fiction was ever about.
   Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
RAY BRADBURY, "No News, or, What Killed the Dog?"

NOT MY BRAND

like being caught with a pack
where authority...

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Something has change since the last time
Time I’ve dreamed
Last time I took time to breath
To look in the mirror
But now I look at others with out fear
Fear of knowing myself
Fear of seeing and knowing 
What...

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Don't go with the flow if your direction is not pointing that way.
Don't copy others just because you are scared showing yourself.
Don't fear contradiction or being different.
It Okay to become leader of your own destiny.

Flexibility...

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Applying for teacher certification
I caused one technician much consternation

My fingerprints had simply not registered
Again and again the test he administered

“Guess you could have had a career in crime,”
He retorted reapplying ink grime

He said this had...

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Dear Heart,
I’d like to file a formal complaint
It seems that your an obsessive overachiever
That you take your job a little to seriously

Dear Heart,
Please stop breaking yourself into a million little pieces-
Because you fall in love...

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Flowers awaken your inner sleep. A precious pearl turns into a charming look that paralyze your mind with a love at first sight sign. You are tickled into a coma on hospice care. You died...

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Do you know what I'm sick of?
Expectations 
Expected to live this picture perfect life
My life is not a post card
I do not own a picket fence
And if I did it would probably be black
And broken...

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One:
Wake up slowly.
Admit it was never that deep.
Let your first word be hmmm.
Let your second be whatever.

Two:
Stretch, but not like you mean it.
Pop one joint, then stop.
You are not an overachiever.
You’re alive. That’s enough.

Three:
Brew something...

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Filled with wounds and scars is my tormented heart.
The cause of my anguish is the events of my past.
Dark shadows that hunt me day and night
Follow me without rest.

I refuse to turn back and look
Fear...

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I did better than all the rest
but that was normal for me
to lose a bit of sleep 
just so I could do good
but you just don’t understand
why I do this all the time
I have to...

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In the Spring I am prone to fever,
all year I’m an overachiever;

Old library’s where I like to hang,
learning a bit more than urban slang;

Left to indulge infatuation,
I drown in whimsical fixation;

Free to discover a wondrous...

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she kisses each misty eye
i look at the access from across the street
i am told to move along
i just listen to the waves and drown out modern normality

she kisses each misty eye
i pick up a...

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I am fearfully and wonderfully made by my Creator. I am a living soul and a breathing human being. I was created for a purpose and will in my life. I am created by the...

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 Outside Looking In (By: Lakeyia Clark; 4/7/08)


You’re on the outside looking in, so tell me what do you see.
Is it a hardworking, goal-oriented, single mother possibly?
Or is it just another young black female with...

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We were born to be real, not to be perfect
Only one Child was given life, innocent at birth
Everyone else was born with a flaw, or a defect
and walks upon this planet called, Mother Earth

If any...

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