Short Overtakes Poems

Dragging their shadow
 A battalion of white clouds
 Overtakes the Sun...

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In the distant sky
darkness overtakes the clouds
bringing in the storm...

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sadness leaves body 
calm peace overtakes my fears 
mind resets itself...

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Bringing in the storm

Darkness overtakes the clouds

In the distant sky...

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Success comes man's life
Failure overtakes than quit
If don't win strife.
...

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sleep overtakes quick
dreams incubate during night
their meanings elude
upon awakening and haunt
and wonder what mind perceived...

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When your thoughts stir the air 
And a smile overtakes a grim facade 
Stand tall, face the breeze
Thanking the waft that is your lot...

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L uring lusts lavish the onlooker.
O bsession overtakes overburdened feelings.
V enerating virtuous vague realities. 
E motions enveloping the ecstasy of love....

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Blinding inertia bleeds extruding from your peripheries. Inverse cognition conjuring 
within your grasp. To accommodate the psyche beyond id, clarity overtakes the 
divine misdirection....

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Drown me in black
Blinding
Blinding
No light here
No means to touch
Numbness overtakes my body
With a writhing vibration throughout
The mind
Never dead
Never done
Faces the consequences....

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Gone without notice.
Shocking everyone.
But me.


Gone without preparation.
Angering the family.
Except me.


Gone before they could say "I love you."
Sorrow overtakes them.
But not me....

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What is this thing that overtakes our soul
They call it love, a very strange casserole
Ingredients are passion
Mixed with phantasm
Known to us all as through life we cajole


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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What is this overtakes me
Mid-sentence or mid-stride
Freezes the mind, when beside
Others walking, or lone?

A gust of fear? One feather
Of fluttery recall?
No; what does hushly enthral
Future-imaged, hair-blown....

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My tale of darkness
Begins on the witching hour
When the moon shines bright

An evil witch dies
She is reborn within you
Your torment builds slow

Reborn with magic
She overtakes your soul quick.
Now you are fiendish...

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This sickness overtakes me
but only in my brightest hour
Cleanse me of this desperation
I know it will only build higher
Seek me, no other
Oh, ye unknown feeling
Swallow me whole, forestall the healing
for I no longer want the cure...

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Under the spell of Autumn and twilight
we encounter a pair of deer 

their delicate forms 
in soft shades of grey
poised for flight
a still life

We linger, transfixed until instinct
overtakes, and they flee.

All we take is a memory....

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Overwhelming, onset of October
            Ogling old owls
            Overjoyed with orange overgrowth
            Overtakes obsidian opulence.
 
  
            
                    
                   10/1/2020
                    7pm PST...

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Beware..........
is what my heart tells me,
run for your life,
you have to flee,
from all the chaos,
in your thoughts,
and the pain and burdens,
before it rots,
the only part,
thats left so true,
and before the insanity,
overtakes you !!!!!!...

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Beware..........
is what my heart tells me,
run for your life,
you have to flee,
from all the chaos,
in your thoughts,
and the pain and burdens,
before it rots,
the only part,
thats left so true,
and before the insanity,
overtakes you !!!!!!...

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Into the forest
Out of the trees
Over the hill 
Quixotic trapeze
Through the valley
Crossing the lake
Into the meadow
Time overtakes
A messenger calls
The cave now in sight
Daylight behind us,
—into the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2016)...

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Winter Lovers
Intense stares
Nights filled with
Tender touches
Emotions rise as
Romantic kisses and
Loving, passionate arms
Overtakes all your senses
Valentine’s Day celebrated
Every February so you
Remember the love you
Share with your Winter Lover...

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Winter is surly.
Eagerly early,
Spring overtakes.
Not left behind
I hurry to find
Clippers and rake.
Each bud and blossom
Quits playing possum.
Appearances make.
Responsive resurgence,
Fixed on fast forward,
Nature awakes!

By: Joyce Johnson
1/28/10...

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Chasing the morning…
Out of the trees
Over the hill 
Quixotic trapeze
Through the valley
Crossing the lake
Into the meadow
Time overtakes
A messenger calls
The cave now in sight
Daylight behind us
 —into the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July,2016)...

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                  Talking, 
         you talk too much;
   Your cadence overtakes 
the might of delicate eardrums;
                   Quiet!
 Did not learn to active listen;
       Trying to control me?!
         Those bossy eyes, 
                 I’m done....

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What a splendid state of delusion you inhabit, my friend!
Afloat upon a boundless sea of ignorance,
You drift towards disaster
With all the courage of an Alexander.

When it overtakes you, I'll never say,
"I told you so!"
Since no one could ever tell you anything....

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