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Overrides Poems - Poems about Overrides

The many languages of black voices
...We dont have to use our voice to scream Because a voice isn't just words It's art, it's our presence, it's how we exist It's being unapologetically black Our presence is like the rain after a d......

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Categories: overrides, discrimination, jealousy, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Her words wrote the justice that we deserved
...Basking in the sunlight In a field of flowers A peaceful look in her She looks up to the sky And realises how much she loves life This is all she wanted In a world that eradicates through ......

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Categories: overrides, discrimination, hope, nature, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Harder to see
...Lord, you see... Everything... When I don't understand or my heart is too heavy to speak, When my compassion overrides my logic, Or when I still give beyond people's ill judgement, When I close ......

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Categories: overrides, beautiful, blessing, courage,
Form: Light Verse
God, you’re devilish
...Hate is more potent than Love as is darkness more awesome than light, Silence’s more deafening than sound Vice is more enticing than virtue as is knowledge more enlightening than faith, Passion ......

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Categories: overrides, evil, hate, love,
Form: Free verse
A typical day
...2025.2.4 Today, I accidentally overrides one of my poem. Now, it is gone. Can I retrieve it? Maybe? From my head, my heart or my memory? I wished I have saved it on the USB. So I would not loo......

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Categories: overrides, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member SILENT VOICES, PRIVATE THOUGHTS
...Your sensualness illuminates my world of secluded dreams Conscious thoughts, no longer kept as silent partners of my heart Allow me to touch the secret depths of your heart A gentle idea, from our......

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Categories: overrides, appreciation, black love, celebration,
Form: Free verse
ERASER
...Everybody has a past. Everyone makes their mistakes. But they are not there to last. Time heals wounds that judgement makes. Human, we are all only... So it is safe assuming that We can leave......

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Categories: overrides, feelings, growth, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
The Leper
...I ring my bell So you can run and flee, And I bear my cloak To keep you safe from my disease. Never once have I felt a gentle touch Or heard kind words from a stranger For fear overrides all sy......

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Categories: overrides, anger, irony, loneliness, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
A fanta see overrides reality
...A fanta see overrides reality! Hello? I like to get positioned for sixty nine. Are you looking for a scheming, schlepping, and schvitzing writer? natural body and laid-back vibe?? I'm al......

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Categories: overrides, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A World Without War
...When Faith turns fanatic, When the mind, like a sponge soaked in dogma, When the lure of money overrides, When reason is hoodwinked With the promise of a Heaven in wait, A terrorist is bor......

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Categories: overrides, angst, death, depression, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Common Sense
...I'm concerned with the lack of common sense; it's notably missing when needed most. And while its absence comes at our expense, nothing else can match it, not even close. It once would ......

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Categories: overrides, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Happy Birthday, Sister Mine
...Everything your heart desires, All that for you life requires, Can be boiled down to one thing, That in this gift resides. Want you not the treasured things, That others crave - like diamond r......

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Categories: overrides, birthday, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mothers
...Babies hear their Mom's voice from in the womb; forming a bond that will last a lifetime. When a fetus stretches and kicks for room, Mom's voice overrides anxiety's climb; sowing seeds of......

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Categories: overrides, baby, beautiful, emotions, image,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Ill Suited For Madcap Twenty First Century World
...Ill suited for madcap twenty first century world One garden variety generic male - the very writer of these words feels akin to an anachronism, whereby his being alive at this juncture within t......

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Categories: overrides, absence, adventure, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Multiplying Green Paths
...Polypaths lead neuro-systemically back to Mother/Child original wombed attachment A remarkably warm and wet counterpoint to a sterile anthrosupremacist theory of Original Separating Sin. I......

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Categories: overrides, appreciation, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

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