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Overruns Poems - Poems about Overruns

Mcallen Blues

...The invasion upon us
attacked by a neighbor
no village is safe
their scourge overruns

The enemy dressed
as civilian turistas
our border wide open
and freely they come

No shots have been f...
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Categories: overruns, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFor Those Who Loathe America

...For Those Who Loathe America

                                  ~*~
At Pearl Harbor, many young lives
were lost.
Those too young now~ never valued 
their auspicious cost.

As kids, in the USA...
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Categories: overruns, angst, international,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberCounting Cumulative Costs

...What does it cost
to love a degenerating Earth,
home,
habitat?

Where NO TRESPASSING signs
speak out for natural sound
defensive silence,
for spiritually medicinal fragrances
only,
in sacre...
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Categories: overruns, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse

Grace and Solitude

...Hovering hemispheres habitual harmonics, symmetrical solitudes in their Sonics,
Mastering melodies with mnemonics, amidst approbation of acoustical avionics…
Stellar symphonies sailing Celestia...
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Categories: overruns, celebration, music, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Big Picture Tease

...Bogged down in the details,
truth is undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
milk overruns

Looking at the forest,
seeing just trees

Life micromanaged
—big picture tease

(Villanova Pe...
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Categories: overruns, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Cost Overrun In Bolehland

...Cost Overruns 

Here in Bolehland, one thing that can be observed and learnt...
It is that Government initiatives are noble and well meant...

Probably each working paper or proposal is well res...
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Categories: overruns, allegory, allusion, anxiety, community,
Form: Free verse

Big Picture Tease

...Bogged down in the details,
  truth comes undone

Swimming through the corn flakes,
  milk overruns 

Looking at the forest,
  seeing just trees

Pieces micromanaged,
 —big picture tease

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Categories: overruns, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

A Malady of the Mind

...A malady of the mind
Dominates the will
As the surging river
Overruns the mill

Omnipotent craving
The bullpen cannot hold
A temptation unremitting
Annulling principle

No affection or reas...
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Categories: overruns, addiction, drink,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberSwamp

...murky water hinders view

vegetation overruns shore

crocodiles lay in wait



                    P.R.Deremer...
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Categories: overruns, nature, places, water,
Form: Haiku

Always Assume

...I live
where the other world meets reality
Always Assume


ignoring, staring
at blinding glances of sun rays

I die
alone in a crowded room
echoed stress
deafening what’s assumed

Assume...
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Categories: overruns, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Run Amok

...Palpable hatred makes your nostrils seethe
As you inhale all the imagined wrongs
Grounded in ignorance
And no reality


A match is struck 

Martyrs are made
And fools are kings
Grievances r...
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Categories: overruns, social, society,
Form: Verse

By a Friendship That Never Bends

...The shadows of doubt 
          May cover our thoughts; 
          Cover our sights; 
          Or ruin our dispositions 
But the shade of truth hasn't lost its 
          Luminance that creeps and o...
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Categories: overruns, friendship, relationship, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

Raspberry Blood

...her hands: blooming. sugar, hot
and humming. those wrists, sweet,
no longer sticky. yet stubborn,
reigning the laughter of two years ago.

her lips: fruit. ripe, or rotten, you
no longer remember. st...
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Categories: overruns, death, depression, loss, lost
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIs Your Mind Free

...Remember worries and fear overruns your mind.
Hope, joy, and love become hard to find.
With my faith, hope and courage combined. 
I find a deeper love for all mankind.
What is it that I do not realiz...
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Categories: overruns, hope, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Rhyme

Eyes of An Ageing Man

...Eyes Of An Ageing Man
 

The eyes of an ageing man
Can tell a story few others can
For surely he has seen it all
From a nation rising, to it’s fall
From wars for freedom, and of security
Each...
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Categories: overruns, lifemen, drug,
Form: Rhyme

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