Overhear Poems - Poems about Overhear

... Gazing at the Sky Gazing at the sky on a summer night With MYRIADS of stars shining sheer bright ......

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...There are gaps in the particleboard; quince wads fill the breaches. Nicotine newspapers underlay the linoleum. It's a rented place, he tiptoes around its yellow layers. He has a friend he visits......

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...Love Unbound In the quiet, unassuming town of Willowbrook, there lives a man named Elias. He was a shadow of his former self, his once vibrant spirit dimmed by the harsh glare of divorce and the cr......

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...I count the birds at my feeder, watch them arrive only to disappear, they are a happenstance, they flicker in and out, die and return. People overhear other lives, I imagine where they go and ......

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...Oh mammy, what time is it now? Where is Daddy? At the Horse and Plough Will he be home When we have our tea? Mum shook her head, that's unlikely Will he be home Before I go to bed? I do......

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...How thoroughly you wreck me With the taste of hope, I can't resist That you may actually perceive my existence As if you haven't already taken more chances than I can give In fact, I gave so many......

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... Blessed is the New Day dawning My prayer this day Father is that we be a maker and maintainer of peace Overhear we go and you Father bring in the calm, in peace in tense situations That......

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...A handful of sorrowful years have passed and now I bare my shame. A deserving fate for one miscast; deserving of the blame. For I was flailing as a dreamer, focussed on the past. Running from......

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...("Blue Egg In Red Sea", 2020, original oil) Person Non-Grata Call me old-fashioned, but I’m glad my mother was a woman. I’m glad about a lot of things actually, the little things in l......

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...Gently smile along when the flowers grin; Freely fly along when butterflies glide Divulge the veiled exuberance within; Set your worldly tribulations aside. Pace along with ever ......

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...Midday, no shadows to muddle the glare. Fawn stuck in a briar bush. Bear coming. If only a cloud could hide the face of death? The hungry cries of her cubs unsettle the air. If only y......

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...There was a beach in Penang once, it is there now, but for us, only in this moment and no other. You and I walk along a golden ray of sunset. I think the small boarding house has gone somewher......

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...Turrets are turning, behind the tanks exhausts are farting death clouds, barrels, like angry dicks, are hot, erect and spurting, buildings erupt, climaxing on TV screens. On both sides of th......

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...One wanted my company but they vetoed, I had happened to overhear. My anger never torpedoed, but nulled to make way for sorrow. I realized it was not them that were hollow– But it was I that cau......

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...I pick up their idle chatter five days of the week. Conversation with other passengers, I never seek to learn of a secret one of them might privately leak. But try as I might, I cannot hel......

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