Overheard Poems - Poems about Overheard

...I hear them talking as I open my eyes, a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, threatening to erupt. I hear question then answer, then questions plural follow up: detectives discussing ......Read the rest...

...Within Within the stillness, faint echoes of sounds can be heard Late night hours, grappling with what is real and the absurd Hearing indistinguishable voices, conversations overheard Perhaps......Read the rest...

...I didn't know him as a serial not exactly at least not at first even though I'd overheard the plotting of arson from a dim lit restroom searching for tissue only to find several guns rifles gr......Read the rest...

...Halfway through the ice, she grasped the crumbling edge of her fear. "Mummy will be mad," she thought. The strangling water plunged into her open mouth, like a black snake - forever plug......Read the rest...

...I heard your cries late at night. I felt your pain through my veins. I was there to greet you rain or shine. I have been there since you were a lad, I watched as you and your siblings played ......Read the rest...

...so much darkness and gloom followed the tornado around Omaha Some were dour and sour about it; I was numb, it had been a disaster I have to get out of here, I told my husband. He understood. Make ......Read the rest...

...Be free made man Tis be not judgement But Other like mirror mirror on the wall Tread on own feet Stumble not Fairy tale wishes Not to meet Overheard voices Chocking on air......Read the rest...

...This isn't the way we should walk into this And my SOS signal didn’t seem to bring God into it Just like shaking people's hands doesn't gift us world peace And speaking of shaking hands, You're ......Read the rest...

...A chance encounter turned into The highlight of our day. It’s funny how occasionally Things turn out that way. A museum exhibition spawned A comment overheard And soon a conversation followed......Read the rest...

...Hugged her from behind She wore red lipstick number 9 Or was it plum? I don’t know anymore But I know her eyes She was someone So much better than me I followed her everywhere But her frien......Read the rest...

..."Oh, look, my little Johnny is the only one in step".......Read the rest...

...unintelligible whispers ~ cause the weirdest reverberations it sounds too good to be true ~ is a noisy misinterpretation a chameleon in a flawed mirror ~ kissed it’s own aberration the pot o......Read the rest...

...Written: September 19, 2023 Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James Joyce Fra......Read the rest...

...my sympathies aren’t born of grace like in the way of the benevolent heiress who, ever-so-delicately, extends cupped hands to feed the twittering songbirds perched on her windowsill it comes......Read the rest...

...Yesterday i was told a story it involved celebrities and stardom two people well known and wealthy came to be lovers they married and were friendly and cordial through out there time together.......Read the rest...