Long Overreacting Poems

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You keep-you keep-you keep flying,
Though I’m honestly crying…...weeping…..sighing…..
Extra careful not to snip your heart strings
Tattoo your tune in my heart that pleasurably stings
Pain is what I need not to inflict myself with – just what...

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digital, it was real

Whenever I went online, 
I felt happiness down my spine.

Profile picture and name was fake and stuff, 
first they started accusing me for it rightfully, but they must've taken too much of...

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Interwoven in my DNA
Disjointing chain links
Always lopsided
Never any balance
Overreacting
Overly emotional
Distracted by everything
One day somewhat normal
The next day absolutely abnormal
Super friendly one moment
As reclusive as a funnel web spider the next
No way to truly explain
It's like...

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Busy getting ready to go to a meeting
I was looking through my closet for something to wear
My 20 year old daughter, Shereen, was in my bedroom
Showing me her new clothes
I marveled at her
What a body
What...

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What even

Never began to trust a stranger so much
Damn it was only two weeks tho
It wasn’t love
Nahhh
But damn, sure could’ve been
Coulda...

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My Worth?

Am I not worth it to you?
The care? The focus? The understanding?
I long to love you, but do you long to love me? 
Do you long to be with me? 
Or maybe I'm just...

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A Poem Please Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless


in love with you forever
sorrow can heal wounds
through sickness and health

I grew that day…
I knew that day…
I had high hopes of a well spent future with him. Dreams of us...

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Sitting in the predawn chill I replayed our last conversation.He had gotten home shortly before midnight saying he was staking out a pot lot on his turf.Hidden along the forests border tucked here and there...

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So he told you he loved you, you’re confused but happy knowing he’s amazing.
You ask yourself why he’d even consider loving you but you can’t think of any reason to love yourself. So you just...

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poets hate to get straight to the point, well she hates it, but she's clearly not a typical poet, she may choke on a metaphor or two, but she can express herself with the best...

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I'm a speech punk; kind of a menace
Not sure if the word is permissible in these parts
But that's the word I need, life's a furnace
So flush that. Gosh, you leave me no choice
I'm trying to...

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Why did i did that i shall never do that again 
Should never make them feel like this again 
Feeling empathy for the soul why am i doing it again  I must be absurd...

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Look at my skin,
And categorize me.
Put me in a column,
The society is sickening.

Not a day would pass without me getting called out.
What do I need to do to live in piece?
My skin doesn’t define me,
When...

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I walk on eggshells hoping he does not explode,
 into a burst of anger that only me he shows,
 that he wont say that word i know is going to hurt me,
 and if i...

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“I’m scared to love you, please don’t hurt me”
New and exciting
Two hearts longing for one another 
Hips colliding 
Every laugh, every kiss, every hug
You 
Me 
Us

“You’re the only one I want, forever”
My heart is now...

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Last year around this time,
We were all watching, waiting although it was Super white.
And then Leo won(finally, the academy being relieved of that atrocious crime).

This year I can't help agreeing, the academy is right
Although Miranda...

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Time is precious and therefore we have to make it useful with a more better value for ourselves.
The moment when we meet a new person,  is it better just relaxed to be ourselves and...

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The Tale of My Beautiful Man Of God Lover--

It began on a divorced spring morning:
I was the most beautiful woman ;
Of God around,
And this man over there,
Was the most beautiful Man of God anywhere, anywhere;...

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Dripples When many drops SPLASH in a puddle and mottles the reflection                       ...

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So, I’m home for winter break
and trying not to break
because I thought I could break away from my problems, my chains—
but my wrists break instead of the shackles.

I don’t want to be home—
I came back,...

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Alone 

She was always alone 

Making a shield out of her phone 

Alone 

So alone 

The feeling engraved into her bones



Maybe it's because she doesn't act normal 

She's not insane 

But there are so many...

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In this dark corner
Of this dark room,
I sit in the shadows,
I sit in the doom.
I see a light,
A light right ove there,
I cannot reach it.
No longer its there.
In this large group,
Of people I love,
I feel...

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I speak my soul still nobody hears me
Its like I recite for no reason my words have no cause
I sit here and scream out my soul 
Not looking for applause

Just wanting to be recognized 
I...

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"What's Love Got To Do With It"
Was a song I heard a lot
As I lay trying to sleep
On my childhood bedroom cot.
Now these words ring again in my ears,
As I seek to find what's true.
However,...

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People tend to overthink and overprocess this “love” thing and this thing called “relationship.” Somehow and for some reason, you want the “Perfect” relationship with “Imperfect” people. 
Why does your mate have to be “PERFECT”...

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