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Overheated Poems - Poems about Overheated

Premium MemberThe Heat of the Moment

...(Cabin Sunset, summer 2025)

The Heat of the Moment

Settling into our new mountain cabin,
Dogs and humans equally overheated
In the shadeless August afternoon,
The only way to be is na...
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Categories: overheated, mountains, nostalgia, retirement, summer,
Form: Narrative

Night Shine

...Night falls in neon showers
Here in the nocturnal simmer of summer
slick city blacktops spark electric.

The juiced-up take to their cars,
pull into fast food haunts
where glazed eyes
return t...
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Categories: overheated, poetry,
Form: Free verse



A Flower Vase on Top of a Piano

...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger
likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger.

She teases out a tune as we both try to hum
along with swirling keys her fingers drum.

The naturals a...
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Categories: overheated, insect, music,
Form: Rhyme

the not grasped

...the not grasped 


The sun was just going behind the westerly ridge
it had been a hot day, and the sun appeared angry
for a cosmic reason, and we don`t even know our
Mind and what influences it...
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Categories: overheated, age, allah, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSummer Breeze

...The heat of the sun 
bears down harshly

then a soothing breeze 
will comfort overheated flesh

providng a respite of coolness
on a scorching day...
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Categories: overheated, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSummer

...Feeling summer's heat- air conditioner too is overheated...
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Categories: overheated, summer,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberA hot house

...No one is the same 
I wake up hot overheated 
sweat running down cheek...
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Categories: overheated, house,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberA Ripe Time Trimeric

...Indulge in juicy strawberry stars 
let that sugar soften your tongue;
The taste of Summer when it's cold 
you visualize the bright Moon of June;

Let that sugar soften your tongue 
that lazy gr...
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Categories: overheated, emotions, fruit, seasons, summer,
Form: Other

Premium MemberHot Summer Heat

...It wears on you
 hot summer heat
 still hot at nine PM
 just want to stay inside
 a hundred and three, a hundred and five
 feels like blazes
Lord Almighty how I love the ac
 too old to do with...
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Categories: overheated, summer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBright Uproar

...en*L*I*G*H*T*ened babbling shocks
burst out of bubbling rocks
bright spots erupt over a smoldering landscape
(hot inflation begets Pomp & Circumlocution)

snowballs explode in a gritty paradise
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Categories: overheated, nonsense, society, space, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove's Sufficient Time

...I can accept love 
I have time to learn
and earn

But
can I embrace compassion
I feel sure appreciates me
far more wisely
than I have yet earned?

Positive passions more pleasant
than I co...
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Categories: overheated, anxiety, culture, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberResilient Priorities

...Ranking best 
health and safety options,

Our Project Team revisits potential resources
directions
options Win/Win inclusive,
Win/Lose defensive,
Lose/Lose mutually degenerative destruction

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Categories: overheated, anxiety, appreciation, bullying, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberDownhearted

..."Behind gleams of sunshine, remember, there are dark shadows lurking"
                                                                          ~By Poet


At times, our heart becomes,
A laby...
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Categories: overheated, angst, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRewarding Inclusion

...I doubt it was a philosopher,
more likely an emperor,
but possibly both,
who first explored this sad relationship
between exclusion
and punishment,
colonialism
feeding repression.

I'll bet ...
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Categories: overheated, depression, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberAutumn Frolicking

...The children are jumping in the leaves
Last Autumn frolics before the cold
They’ve rolled up their long sleeves,
Overheated, they are sweaty, I’m told
Covered with leaves, brown and g...
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Categories: overheated, autumn, childhood, fun,
Form: Quintain (English)

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