Overwritten Poems - Poems about Overwritten

Point of No Return

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Written: May 31st, 2025, for contest by Kai Michael Neumann

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In the stillness of twilight, shadows sway.
and a delicate craft rests on the shore, 
embarkin...

I can't remember

...I don't remember when I looked up and heard a seagull's cries
I don't remember the line of gold of my first sunrise
I don't remember the time at Fire Island when Mom carried me to the sea
I don't ...

Somewhere

...Whatever was here has gone.
Already the world has filled in
the empty spaces.
Children play on scars.
Traffic noise has overwritten 
the silence.
Nothing remains.

Each poem becomes a hole
i...

The Sacred Meow Society

...I'm late to the 
Meeting on purpose.
My back left paw
Needed 10 or 12 
More licks.

Another write-up
Headed my way.
So what?
None of us can 
Write or read anyway.

The Society is not 
Wh...

Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing

...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishne...

Logical Nonsense

...The logical possibility to jump over the moon,
make sense when considered its cheese eaten with a spoon.
The same cheese became famous by Mozart composing Cinderella,
melted in on bread called Moz...

Cv's

...Curriculum vita in a perfect suit for the over emphasized job,
overwritten obituaries by all means towards the career to the top.
Artificial titles painting in phrase the landscape of the desire,
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The Edge of Conclusion

...The big bang theory is overwritten,
then the dream weaver gave us illusion to be smitten.
Rational thoughts in metaphysics science concludes,
mathematical proof with its astonishing effect interlu...

At the Feeder, January 18th

...At The Feeder, January 18th

The fresh dusting of snow this morning
is now a lacy network of sparrow tracks
overwritten by the single trail 
of the marauding squirrel.  
The feeder has been fro...

Our World

...The world as I know it... stays unknown
My world as I know it... stays hidden
Our world as we know it... we are alone
This world as the world knows it... stays broken

This world...have you sat ...

Messy Analytics

...I am still attracted to the story of his mystery
I can travel trough his drawings and feel them like new rooms within myself 
Like how memory saturates, swells and ebbs as it is overwritten
It sur...

Aye,Aye, and a Mistress

...Writers wrong readers with wiles
Please protect poetry and prose
From flagrant fraudulent fancies
Of overwritten odius odes.

A related collection of poetry
Now can be published at whim.
The a...

Unwritten

...He was a slave to one of his books
and for all of the looks
cast upward he then did wrong
The book had been his as a kid
the knowledge for what he did
all of the bad was written
Fake read and d...

One Step Down

... Draft beer,

chess boards,

and Kerouac cool.

Cerebral grafitti and
a Robot-in-Drag juke box
bubbling out fifty years of good jazz.

A virtuoso burger flipper
destroying the laws...

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