Overzealous Poems

Premium MemberI Am Green

...I Am Green

Sea-irises, overzealous.
Look in my eyes. Don’t be jealous.
This poet’s ebb and flow spotlight.
‘Til death do we part - my birthright.

By definition always gree...
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Categories: overzealous, green, me,
Form: Quatrain

After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about

...After the wife made a suggestion about what to write about...

I decided to title my piece
a concatenation of a few different notions
incorporating fictional romance
alluding to myself and spous...
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Categories: overzealous, adventure, age, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberA Mortal Toll

...My soul’s confession knows no ordinary
penance—nor knows, nor feels, another mind
the nebulating sorrows therein maligned—.
I doubt my own can judge the cemetery

of bygone thoughts, dead dreams...
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Categories: overzealous, anxiety, conflict, corruption, depression,
Form: Italian Sonnet

i was wrong, i am sorry

...behold, the Paranoid Schizoid.
lost in the void,
he’s an android.

the Victim of a cruel trick,
a tragic sort of magic,
there was no favorable pick.

i can see it in your eyes.
they don’t sp...
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Categories: overzealous, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, lost
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberle livre bleu

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“le livre bleu” 

Terabytes.
lonely poets, writers, 
musicians and artists play here,
they wear masks that cover
vermillion dripping smiles
over sharp little wolverine te...
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Categories: overzealous, muse,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberMeeting the Leprechaun

...I am a merry me frisky fey a tiny man bragged to me
Please join me at my explosive enjoyable revelry
A jollity in his overzealous ambiance was brighter than I had ever seen
Magical merriment and m...
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Categories: overzealous, march,
Form: Rhyme

Interesting Take

...No because sometimes reassurances aren't enough, you know?
Sometimes it isn't enough to remind yourself that you are alive despite whatever atrocities you've ever faced.
Sometimes telling yourself ...
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Categories: overzealous, anger, dark, gothic, mental
Form: Free verse

I Got Issues

...I'm consumed by jealousy's flame
Overzealous emotions, hard to tame
My highs are intoxicating, lows devastating
Anger burns, a fire I'm hesitating 

To love you fiercely, or leave in haste
My h...
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Categories: overzealous, anger, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Gluttonous Tale

...Survival of an ultra long week,
finally you see some light at the end;
Humor a little bit tongue in cheek?
Right now could be truly a godsend;

Up late in pyjamas watching cartoons,
always more...
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Categories: overzealous, feelings, food, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Tooth Faerie, Unhinged

...Oh, how you brushed and washed me, 
And lovingly dental flossed me -  
How tragically you lost me, 
When I was extracted from your skull 
By an overzealous faerie, 
Toothless, hideous and scary,...
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Categories: overzealous, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme

The Universe has Feelings too

...Our inception  was  a   mystery
"A big bang theory"   Some suggested
" A Super being" above the clouds" Some lamented
we watched the creatures debate over our existence

Born in a family  of ten...
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Categories: overzealous, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCocoon

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"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of ...
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Categories: overzealous, muse,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBlood Moon

...There is a moon stuck inside the stoplight
A still unblinking gaze controlling blood tides
Circulatory system like New York City in the seventies
The thrashing of my tire fire heart led
To the tr...
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Categories: overzealous, allegory, anger, animal, change,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Green Goddess

...In the gentle haze of emerald leaves
Is balm for minds wrestling with unease

With a sweet green goddess solace found
In the garden where anxiety is unbound

She whispers to an overanxious soul...
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Categories: overzealous, addiction, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAll In the Family Poop

...I used to think grandpa was full of bull
So I took things he said with a spoonful
And knew he was kiddin’
When he won a ribbon
For first place in the fart finger pull

That of course made gram ...
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Categories: overzealous, family, humorous,
Form: Limerick

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