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Fears Have Overtaken His Life

His fears had overtaken his life in a thorough way
They were squeezing the happiness out of his soul
He started out with a few fears, but they quickly grew
Now his fears were worrisome, and all-encompassing
He was afraid of dogs, bees, wasps, spiders and snakes.

“What about tigers, lions, bears and alligators?” his friend asked.
He was afraid of

Categories: overtaken, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Overtaken By Pirates

red morrel mushrooms that always overgrew
they annoy me sometimes, how about you?
hey! who invited Captain M’s pirate crew?
They are rude and always spit in the awful beef stew

They all pretend they cannot find the loo
I smell them as they come in, they smell like mildew
they are reeking up my living room through and through
can’t you

Categories: overtaken, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Overtaken By Mob and Sob

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we learned how to lift
spirits from sin and from shift
overcame all rifts

we started to sob
when overtaken by mob
who will kill and rob

in the flowing flood
things were covered by much mud
flowers

Categories: overtaken, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

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Space Overtaken

Space Overtaken

To many tomatoes fill up my fridge
Grown from the garden, a tasty delish
When seeds were first sown, did a no show
Planted some more, twice many did grow

Offered some out to family and friends
But they had themselves twenty times ten
With seedlings now to many to count
Not one to be wasted began to place out

Seedlings aligned

Categories: overtaken, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Growing Up Tears

I thought when I was little adults did not cry.
“They are strong and brave and unafraid.”
Such I believed ’til my ninth birthday was nigh.

I awoke one morning with a pain in my chest.
“Best take you to the doctor,” Mother said.
Until she did, I knew she would not rest

The doctor poked and prodded, head to toe.
Then

Categories: overtaken, 10th grade, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Mind Overtaken

So my private prediction came to pass
A son, a victim of a mind overtaken and harassed
Overwhelmed by fear
The mind is cavalier
Finally broke the spell, made it through the impasse

Categories: overtaken, joy,
Form: Limerick

Overtaken

You overtake - every corner of comfort, energy, rest, complacency
I don't want to have to be grateful
For each simple smile, each ordinary sunset
Because I don't want to see the finish line

I want the luxury of being
Frustrated, grouchy, impatient, annoyed
I don't want to have to swallow my words,
Face, feelings - to toe the balance between
Being his

Categories: overtaken, angst, cancer, fear, hurt,
Form: Free verse

Not Overtaken

Forevermore, The dust rises from the sky
Lights so bright, streets, long roads traveled
The gathering of the stars
Rewarding into the night light
Sunrise.

Traveled extensive miles
Beyond the hills and valleys
Open land abroad
Never to repeat that again
A narrow path straightened
The clouds moving
The moon
Hidden Valleys, deeper lakes
The sea
Overtakes
Running towards the land
The land of freedom
From the beginning
Winning
A soul, fulfillment
Goals.

Plans almost shattered
Determination

Categories: overtaken, betrayal, courage, desire, destiny,
Form: Lyric

Overtaken

Needles tattoo scarlet flames across my face.

Eyes fix hypnotic on the matador's cape.

Frenzied herd stampedes throughout my chest,
bearing down on a cliff, with no concern.

The dam of reason bursts with mounting pressure
as a river of vengeful thoughts floods my mind;
the sound of roaring rapids echoing in my ears.

My body, a willing host for hate filled

Categories: overtaken, anger, hate,
Form: Free verse

Death Overtaken

How many times can I side step you until my number is up
Will you come quietly into the night or stalking fast and abrupt

My shadow is perfect for your dark cloak to blend
It would just take me to turn and not suspect my close friend

A moment or more is all it would take
For my world

Categories: overtaken, death, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme

Death Overtaken Or Slowing Down For Life

From conception death is chased
through hollow and hill
sunlight and shadow
backalley and byway
synagogue and saloon.
Through fresh bells of wallstreet
worn bodies on mainstreet,
death is chased relentlessly.

Its muddy hoofprints climbing 
the crackpipes of
calvary eyes
clop-clop-clop.
Bending nightmare to angel
then back again-   
Death slows brilliantly
(overtaken of course)
smiling-teeth plaqued with burning rubies
(sins of the flesh).
Just as its always been
life breaths

Categories: overtaken, death, life,
Form: Free verse

Overtaken By Infinity

Subliminal recession in a valid medium taunts your apathetic presence. Sin the 
alleviate disparity, cos a destined validity, tangent universal.  Overtaken by infinity, 
hovering unscathed of the insidious through a self deity. Collapsing perception 
rushing through these opaque peripheries.

Categories: overtaken, introspection, philosophy
Form: Free verse

Overtaken

Turtle was feeling shy
Looking white by the snow covering
Shyness thwarted the shivering cold

Categories: overtaken, nature
Form: Haiku