Overactive Poems

Premium MemberSpeedo Racer

...Was by the pool, sporting a Speedo

Cursed with overactive libido

I did all that I could 

Now, I'm just sporting wood

The damned thing looked like a torpedo


So I used my towel, trying...
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Categories: overactive, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPhantom Sounds

...I am overcome with a sense of dread,
when hearing talk of that leg injury. 
It becomes an atrocious time machine 
throwing me viciously on to my couch. 
Will it ever feel like normal again?
I wi...
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Categories: overactive, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sestina


After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about

...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about...

I decided to title my piece
a concatenation of a few different notions
incorporating fictional romance
alluding to myself and spous...
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Categories: overactive, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Irrational exuberance at respite from reading

...Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...

(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
reg...
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Categories: overactive, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee

...Rebellious nonestablishmentarian Pennsylvania Yankee...
honored at freedom fête
of course in my dreams
where Tony the Tiger
roars Matthew Scott Harris 
ranks as one hip cat gr-r-eat
showcasing ...
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Categories: overactive, adventure, america, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse


Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream

...The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dre...
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Categories: overactive, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

An unexceptional turning point in our marriage

...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...

unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
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Categories: overactive, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Mammoth Mistake?

...
"Sam Dumpty here for National Geoplastic Magazine. I am surrounded by the most prominent scientists and archeologists in the world. The occasion? The unveiling of the de-extincted wooly mammoth. To...
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Categories: overactive, animal,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPissy-Pants

...I announce a decree,
overactive bladder, pee frequently.
I must haste to and fro,
because I just really have to go.
Gangway, vacate the loo,
or I'm going to splash all over you!

I wear indust...
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Categories: overactive, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme

hunting the purpose of sunlights

...body dysmorphia from...
an overactive optic nerve
speculation on the dating and self worth market

get a phone book and stay inside
homeless people exist
we are not clean for we do not have civ...
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Categories: overactive, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable

...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable

Therefore karma caught up to me big time
and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory
(figurative speaking) by casting a spell,
whereby the ...
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Categories: overactive, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Doing absolute zero endeavors

...Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
othe...
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Categories: overactive, absence, adventure, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFears

...Enveloping me in a cloudburst, 
my minacious blues held a funk.
Dribbles are now torrential,
a rainstorm in my brain.
Overactive mind,
l’m exhausted.
Let me go
right now
fears!...
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Categories: overactive, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Nonet

Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic

...Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic

In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world
birthed cocka...
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Categories: overactive, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

...Lemme regale you with splendid and fabulous exuberance

Despite being an amateur
paperback writer wannabe,
whose storied protagonist
stars colporteur wannabe
(thinly veiled cover as yours truly...
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Categories: overactive, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

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