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Overtaking Poems - Poems about Overtaking

Along the Broken Avenue
...The town, ripped up like a carpet—flung to the side like a broken leg. In its scar the soldiers marched. Chanted for a ruler who ate in his highchair while he penned in their death warrants. Overhead......

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Categories: overtaking, loss, murder, sky, war,
Form: Prose
My Present State
...My heart can feel it, the overwhelming surge of emotion. It grips and it tears with merciless ferocity as if it was a wild animal within my body and I can't stop it from overtaking me. A transform......

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Categories: overtaking, anger, corruption, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO IS MERCIFUL
...January 15 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 43-45 Key Verse – Genesis 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy… FAITH IN GOD WHO IS MERCIFUL God is mercif......

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Categories: overtaking, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Equivocal
...It is just a little past noon and I expect to see you soon I have been waiting at the gate but you did not come and it’s getting late. A peculiar feeling is boiling in my gut and it leave a terrible......

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Categories: overtaking, absence, business, character, confusion,
Form: Narrative
The Healthy Eating Steeplechase
...An orange takes an early lead, followed by a melon. Garden peas are catching fast, so too is the lemon. Granny Smith’s are overtaking. Lettuces are gaining. Kiwi’s move from out the pack. Th......

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Categories: overtaking, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme



US SCHOOLS, US RULES
...US SCHOOLS, US RULES Yes, in the USA and probably some other places too Distances are such that they still do bus kids to school A good local service, as many would agree that’s true But car ......

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Categories: overtaking, care, child,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BEING OUR MAKER
...August 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 33-35 Key Verse – Jeremiah 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his na......

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Categories: overtaking, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member I miss
...I cannot write Just stare in vain As my lack of verve Mars the page My thinking stops Dullness overtaking Bothered and aware This mirror needs breaking Cruel clarity Did descend on me ......

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Categories: overtaking, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Feeling It
...Feelings felt are hard to feel when feeling isn't really ur deal Pain is easier to describe it's much more deliberate it takes more pride Pride is something not everyone has the honor to experience......

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Categories: overtaking, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member bed buddies
...wet noses are cold butted up against my face overtaking the bed......

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Categories: overtaking, animal,
Form: Haiku
Those holes
...Dodging one here, dodging one there, Riding along without a care. Three in a row, which way do I go, I close my eyes and curse the so and so. Oh! what a bang, the old van shook, But at l......

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Categories: overtaking, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's a Strange Place
... It's a very strange place when in dreams I chase phantasms, a figmant of imagination, or an apparition of warning from my soul, seeing what is hidden from the light of day. It's a very ......

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Categories: overtaking, dark,
Form: Free verse
The shower scene
...Delicate fingers gripped the slender neck firmly- after soft, full lips caressed cold, wet flesh desperately- whilst deep breaths were taken forcefully; yet suffocated moans and screams pierced di......

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Categories: overtaking, abuse, angst, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Technology - Who Needs It
... Technology controls us all over but remember when there was none life was seemingly so much easier looking back why did it so turn We like always to communicate by whatever means we can but......

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Categories: overtaking, life, technology, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moon Struck - Collaboration
...I am the traveller with stones in my coat Made opaque by staying nameless Though dark I am not darkness Swallowing the edges of days, overtaking I rinse my dirty fingers in a painted lake Runn......

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Categories: overtaking, angst,
Form: Free verse

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