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Overrunning Poems - Poems about Overrunning

Roots of Rebellion

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For Tom's 1984 The Fall of Big Brother

In the dark soil
beneath the weight of stone and silence,
the meek are not mere shadows,
they are tubers,
reaching deep in furtive places,
attracted b...

Categories: overrunning, education, metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse

Falling for You

...Lilac is such a beautiful scent
A poem of fragrance that never gets spent
Same for you, my desire, it doesn't run out
It only keeps building, it will not see drought
Overrunning its banks, yet a ...

Categories: overrunning, desire, for her, i
Form: Rhyme

Garden

...flower
fragrant, colorful
watering, gathering , pressing
floweret, bouquet, nuisance, lawn,
growing, irritating, overrunning
smelly, unwanted
weed

8/24/2021



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Categories: overrunning, flower,
Form: Diamante

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Jailer From the North

...We peep through grated beams in the dark confines, 
Kept in chains by the  tyranny  of audacious  jailers,
unending cynosure of profligates and imposters:  
ruining the destinies of  million  wear...

Categories: overrunning, anger, corruption, freedom, leadership,
Form: Free verse

For Caren

...Funny, feisty, fearless
Obliterating output
Rescuer of raccoons

Creative counselor to curious children
Adamant artistic aspirations
Relatives overrunning
Eye for exceptional expression
Nifty...

Categories: overrunning, appreciation, for her, friend,
Form: Acrostic

Lies

...Lies lies lies 
Easily and swiftly they flow out 
And never will they stop 
Until the stoppage of life 
Like the blood from the jugular 

They have no potency 
Rather are they independent 
Bu...

Categories: overrunning, poetry
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Fleeing Austria

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My wife and I return from our honeymoon, and what do we see?
There is a new regime that is overrunning my country.
I have the terrible feeling another war will begin.
It will be started ...

Categories: overrunning, family, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme

Little W-V-A Boy Part Iii

...Then the third day, as we were packing up,
finishing our work, completing our tasks,
We scoured the horizon for you.
You finally appeared again.
Your cough a little less severe,
Your head a little le...

Categories: overrunning, child, childhood, feelings, grief,
Form: Blank verse

Stormy Heart

...Alone in loneliness
Amid forever nights
And these four walls
In faint, whisper soft your name

I beg out loud to the nothingness that remains
"Please not another nightmare, no more storms...

Categories: overrunning, death, depression, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme