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Life Over Your Head Poems

These Life Over Your Head poems are examples of Over Your Head poems about Life. These are the best examples of Over Your Head Life poems written by international poets.

An Excerpt of the Voices in My Head
"Cured" by the medication, my mind goes numb
Is feeling nothing better than feeling it all?
Screaming in my head becomes a constant drum
Do people really love...

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Categories: over your head, abuse, betrayal, dark, death,

Advice concerning the suitability of a mate turned on its head
The grandmother speaks to her granddaughter:
When I was a girl the best advice from a loving parent concerning,
A  suitable mate for their daughter,
Was 'find...

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Categories: over your head, age, appreciation, art, celebration,
Premium Member Clear my head
Tying to decide
Feelings I hide
I have a hard time here inside
These fellows are old
They are always cold
I try to keep myself calm
On my nerves they...

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Categories: over your head, abortion, age, blessing, cheer
Premium Member A Little More
I shaved my head
and wore a robe
the mountain pass
I found at last
grew thin alas
but fat I got
on nature's lot
her sounds were not
my thoughtless strobe
though I...

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Categories: over your head, anxiety, depression, introspection, journey,
The Voice In His Head, Part II
...It was maybe ten years later,
as I slept in my bed,
that all sorts of infernal things
seemed to possess my head.
A procession of cruel demons
that long...

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Categories: over your head, change, courage, growth, hope,

The Voice In His Head, Part I
There is a voice within my head,
he’s been there all my life,
I’ve learned not to talk much of it,
or folks say, “He ain’t right.”
Some would...

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Categories: over your head, change, courage, growth, hope,
Get out of my head mister chatterbox
Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

Ransacking treasure trove 
of maximum headroom.

To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming 
forty seventh president
or...

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Categories: over your head, abuse, anger, bullying, crazy,
Premium Member FIDDLE-HEAD
An infant shoot - a tight green crook
boldly it rises to assert
with confidence its back unfurls
now upright it spreads out its arms 
thus fronds set...

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Categories: over your head, life, nature,
Heavy Is the Head
Heavy Is The Head 

I know the world isn’t on my shoulders 
And it isn’t all mine to bear. 
But since I’ve decided to take...

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Categories: over your head, life,
Premium Member Hand In Hand
I wasn't going to say anything
in that leafy Lincoln street
when you caught me pondering my life
and the many ways to die
but there was something about...

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Categories: over your head, deep, friendship, mental illness,
Premium Member The Fish Head
Once, this hollow
in a washed up fish head held
an eye. Now it's just a skull,
an escapee from a crab pot
where it hung as bait to...

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Categories: over your head, fish, horror, sea,
Premium Member A Voice In My Head
On my daily commute
              I lay down my paper to dream
 of...

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Categories: over your head, nostalgia,
Premium Member Peanut Butter and Jelly
Woke up this am and climbed out of bed.
Slept with my shoes on and a song in my head.
The beat grew stronger as the lyrics...

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Categories: over your head, 1st grade, dream,
Voice In Your Head
We all have a voice (or possibly many! ;-)) in our head that is a constant companion to our life. Please try to encourage it...

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Categories: over your head, encouraging, mental health, psychological,
A Little Egg Who Bumped His Head
"Once there was a little egg,
Who jumped on his bed and bumped his head,
His mom  told him not to do it,
But he said he...

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Categories: over your head, children, hilarious, humor,

Book: Shattered Sighs