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Overhear Poems - Poems about Overhear

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The Dog and his Master
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member PEACE-
... 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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, analogy, appreciation, peace,
Form: Free verse
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, break up, children, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Person Non-Grata
...("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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, hyperbole, perspective, satire, society,
Form: Narrative
In harmony with nature
...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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, beautiful, butterfly, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet



If Only
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Penang
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Religious Affair
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Unwanted
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, 11th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chattering Voices
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, travel, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Highlights From Highland Manor
...Highlights from Highland Manor Courtesy Goofus and Gallant who began their broadly-drawn moral plays in the 1950s, initially depicted as identical twins, but later on, editors for Highlight......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, adventure, age, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day Shuttered
...Curtains be drawn today be shuttered, the sign Closed hung in the sky window by the Master, Sun. Restless be I, yet bound by the tick-clocking of time's daily cust......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Howling Winds of March
...The howling winds of March Furious gusts of air mightily blow bestirring anchored poet sitting comfortably numb securely strapped in his hard to maneuver easy bath chair while all around him ......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Went To the Zoo With Family, But Wanted To Go Alone
...the malagasy giant jumping rats look at me as if to tell me it'll be alright in the end but i try to ditch the family and run off to the insect house overhear a family wanting a refund b......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Lit and With It
...Singing in shed furthest corner of yard; lights are on in room. Smoking in shack furthest back from house, mind is lit and with it. Nobody to witness me, overhear anything, nor complain.......Read the rest...
Categories: overhear, addiction, allusion, drug,
Form: Sijo

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