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Overplay Poems - Poems about Overplay

Horror show

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Jill Nando hosted "Crimewatch" a TV show
She was shot dead, who did it we don't know.
Lot of cases not solved, not even all crimes known
Keep a low profile or enter a danger zone.

Plutonium w...
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Categories: overplay, betrayal, death, evil, hate,
Form: Lyric

Defecation accidentally clogged

...Defecation accidentally clogged...

for the umpteenth time 
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks 
on porcelain throne id est 
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to o...
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Categories: overplay, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWhich Way, America

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Here we are again;
A major election year.

What's going to happen when
All the dust have cleared?

Will we shut out the past
Of those things that should last?

Or, will we overshoot and ...
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Categories: overplay, america, prayer,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberOverplayed Hand

...I had a brilliant moment of clarity, inspired by a dream,
a profound reminder that things may not be what they seem.
There's not always a clear line between evil and good,
like a wolf in sheep’s c...
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Categories: overplay, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Overplayed Hand

...Having an inflated ego is detrimental to living a good life
It's a self-serving trait that can lead to tragedy and strife
One who's overconfident is arrogant, his hubris is rife
Overplaying his ha...
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Categories: overplay, conflict, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme



The Outcome of the Game of Love

...She used to try and make me jealous 
then I would chase her around 
love the attention that develops 
then she’d go and put me down 

Tell me that I’m insecure 
as I forever worry more 
claim ...
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Categories: overplay, jealousy, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Holy-Wood Cruise-A-Fiction

......typically...
news casts overplay
times odds and ends
...that...
everyone sees 'something'
as wrong in news reports
...within...
some density of an ongoing
propaganda that supposedly
...id...
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Categories: overplay, age, confusion, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Meal In Five Senses

...Within an overplay of paneled oak
and illumination fittingly low,
set upon a table, its style baroque
a lighted candle, its shimmering glow
plays an unopened bottle of Bordeaux

Distant soft mu...
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Categories: overplay, drink, food,
Form: Quintain (English)

Defecation Clogged Toilet Bowl

...Defecation clogged toilet bowl...
courtesy prescription laxative AMITIZA

and found (me) zee papa pooped out,
thus embarrassing communiqué I post,
a reasonably rhyming poetic shout
to air griev...
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Categories: overplay, 12th grade, adventure, grief,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Mountain From a Pile

...How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering unexplained death 
The ripples keep expanding...
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Categories: overplay, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Defecation Clogged Toilet Bowl Courtesy Metamucil

...Defecation clogged toilet bowl courtesy metamucil..
and found (me) zee papa pooped out

**** eyes zing thee
nightly dump for yesterday
July 8th, 2020 - whereby
plunger helped obstruction give w...
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Categories: overplay, adventure, dedication, desire, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSo Tell Me If

...I left my naivety back in the hood
to explore the empathy in my heart.
And deep in my soul I feel that I’m good
somewhat smart, but don’t overplay that part.

I’m humble, yet I’m kinda p...
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Categories: overplay, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain

Theres a Pedophile In the House

...There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)

OMG,... and he looks...
     SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
     absolutely NO WAY!!!,
would this sensitive,
     res...
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Categories: overplay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy

Wow This Woman Just Makes My Heart Want To Fly

...I met the most amazing woman today
So pretty, such a looker all the way
Everything about her had me reacting 
In the most sensual ways
So interesting to talk with 
I hope she wants to stay
Her ...
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Categories: overplay, blessing, confidence, cool, cute,
Form: Rhyme

We Place All Our Faith In God

...I have this new found strength
Presence like the flow we have come to know
The peace I feel from this very real ordeal
That Satans player tried to bring our way
You are here with me to stay
No w...
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Categories: overplay, anxiety, bullying, dark, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

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