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Overwrought Poems - Poems about Overwrought

Once Again
...Once more, I am thinking about writing - coils are uncoiling, snakes study the intricate anatomy of legs and next steps. My audience of one must be propped up as if yet still alive, geriatric......

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Categories: overwrought, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
... I sailed an olive boat into the center of the sea alone to find a cure for my loose heart not the spring-back type, noble with elasticity but leap-forward lecher-wild binding to any skirt......

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Categories: overwrought, conflict, irony, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Heart
...What haven’t I seen in this fleeting life, At times, even tears felt a distant strife. Yet one piece of flesh within my chest Never grows old, though the peak is frost-dressed. Tender and young, ......

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Categories: overwrought, heart,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations IX
...Sappho Translations IX Sappho, fragment 17 translation by Michael R. Burch Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears, you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows, those dazz......

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Categories: overwrought, god, heart, men, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NO
...NO Where do you start with suicide I`ve been struggling with what to say, But no one in society is immune from this The numbers rise each day. You can sit back and think it will never be me ......

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Categories: overwrought, absence, abuse, addiction, angst,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pleasingly Plump
...Pleasingly Plump Obese, bloated, overwrought with contrition Lainey hung a chart of each yoga position Couldn’t deal with stretching Mice she’s still fetching She defies my lectures on......

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Categories: overwrought, animal, cat, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Light shimmering in Cataclysm: Artist's POV
...Another typical insipid day the sweet, crimson glowing ember falling revealing the lustrous serenity of kaleidoscopic skies Elysian whispers around my remaining canvas of arid Go......

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Categories: overwrought, beautiful, creation, imagery, light,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Idealism on Standby
...Welcome to our generation, We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation, Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation, And fear their schools are a gunned down station. When they watch the news near an......

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Categories: overwrought, innocence, patriotic, political, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poems going nowhere that don't get finished
...This is a broken emptiness So surrounded in fixedness you can't get at it All I've ever wanted, I'm that But in disorder Unoriginal amongst poets My drama is bound, I won't let it out All doors......

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Categories: overwrought, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
LETS TANGO
...LETS TANGO Nobody said, Let’s go to war But an invasion, well I never An Atlantic territory, remote Who’d respond, they thought Or perhaps get overwrought Eight thousand miles by boat Surely......

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Categories: overwrought, ocean, recovery from, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaving Gently
... Each morning as I wake my eyes will seek the sky be it blue or heavy overcast my spirit lifts in flight - to behold the natural world is a miracle of being when I reach my final hour l......

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Categories: overwrought, blessing, hope, nature,
Form: Free verse
Brave Slave Would Crave Horn Haiku
...when she tied the knot must marry an astronaut became overwrought when he (she) was a slave he had lived in home of the brave freedom always crave (caught moving through a cave) (would liv......

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Categories: overwrought, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Oh See Dee
...Whilst pensive and serene and seated on the loo contentedly having my morning number two my serenity was shaken torn asunder by a massive mistake a terrible blunder someone had installed ......

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Categories: overwrought, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Overwrought So In One Arm Shot
...would have a great thought when in both arms overwrought so same one was shot Just had our combined FLU/COVID shot, I had both of mine in left arm. Wife had one in each arm. Only my left arm......

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Categories: overwrought, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Overwrought By Hamas Had Been Shot
...will end when and where have been many lives to spare be kind and take care many overwrought by hamas they had been shot so much sin was sought lying and beguile blew up buildings mile by ......

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Categories: overwrought, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

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