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Overcompensate
Overcompensate Poems - Poems about Overcompensate
Ego Death
...Who is that blank girl staring at the mirror Why won't she say something She never used her voice to express her true feeling And she said, "That was just my ego inside me." She went around ......
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Dena Brown
Categories:
overcompensate,
feelings, forgiveness, freedom, pain,
Form:
Lyric
The Greater the High, the Harder the Crash
...So good at hiding yourself for nothing When you were singing that song you listen to, On and on Even though your eyes were closed, It looked as though you were singing to someone in particular B......
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Matthew Bailey
Categories:
overcompensate,
angst, conflict, fear, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Lost
...I’m lost. It’s nothing new, I just sit around and overthink, overcompensate, over complicate, overwork the brain but it has its limits. I see now what I do, how I am, who I become when I’m lo......
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Kai Solis
Categories:
overcompensate,
anxiety, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Pendulum
... A tendency that’s not so great: to overcompensate when things go wrong, so strong that when things right again, they swing the other way, and keep the pendulum in play. ————- T......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
overcompensate,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
January 13th, 2023
...January 13th, 2023 After wishing upon a star to garner a handsome windfall as a positive fated birthday gift lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me, cuz I discerned a partial telephone me......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
overcompensate,
adventure, anger, anniversary, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Dissociation
... I want to live life But I'm tired of living my life I want to be free But I'm chained to the idea of what it means to be free I want to be whole But threw away pieces that would make m......
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Christopher Goss
Categories:
overcompensate,
depression, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Forced My Hand
...Forced my hand! After being scourged, scorched, sored and sold by love, l was no more a believer for she was a deceiver! The nights l wept alone expecting roses from a company of two, oh what a f......
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Marley Marlibu Muringa
Categories:
overcompensate,
beautiful, break up, devotion,
Form:
Romanticism
Overcompensate
...overcompensate shortcomings was the plan once upon a time till that day began to realize that having flaws is what makes us unique......
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Shari Thomas
Categories:
overcompensate,
psychological,
Form:
Lyric
Stumped On the Stump
...It’s in the dictionary: disambiguate. It reminds me of Bush’s misrememberate, a word that always makes me hyperventilate and sometimes even makes me discombobulate. They’re words for those who want t......
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Tom Harris
Categories:
overcompensate,
satire, me, me, truth,
Form:
Sestina
If I Had One Wish Contest
...If I had one wish, I know what it would be I would wish for all of humanity to be set free, Many have afflictions, Many have additions, Many are simply oppressed, While many are chained to depre......
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Sabina Nicole
Categories:
overcompensate,
life
Form:
Rhyme
Love Shall Say It Is Sorry For Jew
...Love shall say it's sorry so truth may atone My soul brings praise to no other, you alone Like the stars tell stories of your eyes alone Like the tides weave history in every moan I have languish......
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David Smalling
Categories:
overcompensate,
devotion, introspection, lovehistory, may,
Form:
Verse
Mind & Will
...It washes over me with cold Each crystal taking a part of me with it As if to make me new A different person with out all the grit. Softness won’t come to someone like me Hardened by years O......
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Mindy Leonard
Categories:
overcompensate,
hope, life, philosophy, me,
Form:
Rhyme