Water
...Raindrops pelted against the window, rolling down the paned glass like tears,
Not unlike the way tears were rolling down my pained face,
The sky was crying with me,
As the plants drowned in the ra...
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Categories:
overthought, water,
Form: Other
overthought
...now im overanalyzing again
playing out dumb scenarios
that would never happen in real life
thinking far too much about other people
people who dont think about me
it’s stupid wasting my energy o...
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Categories:
overthought, sad,
Form: Free verse
Never delve deeper
...When I look at the beautiful interaction of us two,
looking from afar makes me laugh,
and my eyes glassy.
Everytime I step closer, my eyes will get teary.
Somehow I smell the overpowering smell...
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Categories:
overthought, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
You know I am here and I will longer be here
...Not to stay nor to leave.
Don't you understand seeing you smiling ear to ear,
since I have said something stupid?
I overthought once and once more?
Weren't you grinnning ?
Grinning because I ...
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Categories:
overthought, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
UN-TAUT THOUGHT
...I thought
And overthought
…thought again
The thought
…was not the thought
That it had been
I pondered it
….and thoug...
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Categories:
overthought, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Diagonals a Freed Verse
...DIAGONALS
displaying
spirituality
once
obscured
&sealed away
death.
balancing
the bright
& bold
yet ephemeral
possibility
triggered by
events
&memories
discovered
&
consi...
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Categories:
overthought, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gasping For Air
...I thought it’d take a mountain
A mountain moved and climbed
A thousand games of hide & seek
Before I’d ever find
The answer to the question
All-knowing, holy truth
Will I ever get over what hap...
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Categories:
overthought, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Overthinker
...I made another mistake today
I just don't know what to say
I swore i was going to be better than yesterday
I beat myself down as I keep telling myself pessimistic thinking isn't the way.
Forgiv...
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Categories:
overthought, anxiety, change, feelings,
Form: Free verse
This Poetry
...By: Ckolwethu Mthethwa
For this poetry serves as my medication...
A Prescription I take so in my mind there can be a separation
Between what's real and my overthought delusions
Best part Is I ...
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Categories:
overthought, dedication, drug,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Lion Who Didn'T Roar
...The boy cried, as his anxiety becomes his fear,
Yes, that boy, whom the world thought , doesnt shed a tear .
He was strong no more, not strong enough;
To face the rest of the pack,who believed...
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Categories:
overthought, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Why Can'T I Think
...Why can't I choose what I want my human to think ?
Why must I be the one working all hours of the day?
Constantly filling my drawers up with these clothes called thoughts?
Like now my human ...
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Categories:
overthought, anxiety, blessing, body, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Father Daughter Rift Rivals Depth of Mariana Trench
...Argh resolution between
self and eldest
dear daughter more remote,
now then locating
a left handed monkey wrench,
cuz she feels this papa
did deliberate smote
her upside ...
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Categories:
overthought, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Empty
...When fear blocks your heart from seeing love,
It makes excuses and causes you to run,
Leading to confusion, you put yourself there,
The thinker overthought, yet he's so unaware,
Tell me who I am,...
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Categories:
overthought, feelings, heartbroken, lonely, lost,
Form: Light Verse
Lended Ears, Deafened
...To what eyes may be wandering, and whichever ears; pressed on wooden walls to grasp little hushes, may be present. I would but casually invite, as to remove the tension. Which may or may not have bee...
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Categories:
overthought, community, power, society, truth,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Overthink It
...Each of us live for the moment
As none are promised time
Not knowing which is our last
We make choices with that in mind
In life we bathe in beauty
Often to drown in sorrow
Paying the price w...
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Categories:
overthought, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
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