Short Overtly Poems

Passionately
Overtly
Expressing
The
Real
You...

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Left an impression,
Overtly lied,
Spoiled my appetite,
Took on a new stride.


By: Sabina...

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S=sincere
C=courageously creative
O=overtly organized and
R-reserved
P=passionately emotional
I=intuitively in
O-order...

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Living overtly upon a burning bridge, life stands captive within the vision of a 
thousand. Clouded seduction, the epiphany of eradication looming among senses 
overt....

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Cunning Sam craved to catch caged canary,
feigned sly not to be overtly scary.
      He sneaked with dinner in mind,
      caught in cage, Sam starved confined.
The bird performed Houdini sorcery.
...

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Where might thy be daylight savings? Sun of mine
Winter's last dying breath it's time to overtly shine
I say bring yourself out from that overcast shrine
Death to all snowmen to the street with their brine...

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Sea Hag at last got to Popeye
Spiked his spinach with Viagra (Oh my!)
Olive Oyl was overtly outraged and insulted
When a SCANDELOUS, sad affair soon after resulted...

Written on: 6/1/2015
Submitted for: Kim’s Clerihew contest...

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Surely you can't be serious, I am and don't call me Shirley
Now that's bloody ridiculous, it's making me squirrely
What kind of talk is that
It's Airplane talk in fact
Remember that silly movie, such nonsense overtly...

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Roaring round roads raucously  
Orally overtly offending operators
Acrid antagonistic adjectives aired
Defiantly daring distracted drivers

Ranting raving railing
Aggravate annoy atrocious
Gregarious gone Goebbels
Exacerbate engage enrage...

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Cowboy
Dr. James E. Martin
©April, 2014

College educated – all are not.
Outdoors they are – quite a lot.
Wintry weather slows them never,
Built they are for inclement weather.
Overtly driven by a style that’s unique,
Youngsters this lifestyle often seek!...

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SOS of unmeant needs
subliminal messages 
overtly stated 
meant to be 
strictly adhered to
by all who saw the 
emotional morse code 
a continues distress single 
set out for all to witness 
but only those who possessed 
the hearts secret decoder ring 
could decipher the message...

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Opaque figure in mist
Observed as cryptic form
Overtly shrouded vague 
Owned nearness lost, wanders
Onward to enigma
Obscurity fogs mind
Obsessed yearning fades out.

April 6, 2021
Syllable count : 6 per line
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Pleiades O
Sponsor : Kim Merryman...

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What are ploits and why do they have so many exs
Shouting claim overtly loud
Shall I ex……………………..pand
It’s plain
That Squelchy ex
Tend to give hugs
This one ex is cruciating
Clever when I am pert
Trod when I meant to Trude
Breathing with my exs sighs
Begone fish and old friend
Perfect act ex
……………….it...

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SENTIMENT
 commitment
highly personal
 orthodoxy.
in
 modern values
so
enigmatic


a
tableaux
displayed
an inward
looking
response
a
temporary
 reaction
ushering
youthful
 fervour

distancing
the
inherent
musing
mediated
&
inscribed

 the
   ultimate
  translation
   remains
to
overtly
   accomplish...

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Exhaustedly engaged in a losing battle
Relentlessly rowing with a broken paddle

Constantly convincing the judge in my mind 
Passionately pleading for the flaws I find

Dreadfully driven to explain my side as true
Willfully wanting to show my point of view 

Quite quickly I'd free, if only I could,
this thralling need to be understood...

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MIXTURES
instances
of
ostensible
 exertions
with
traditional
certainty

expected
    overtly
resolve
  forsaken
embedded
 in
 treasured
 possessions
&
 perspectives

sophisticted
inventive
& intense
feeling
 spatial
turbulent
  immersed
fostered
beyond style
penetrating
the
 recumbent
element
&
interpolated
with
  problems...

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Shadows by Shane Cogan (2013)

Silently it lunged forward, then backwards
Hesitating, it reached out and touched its prey
Alarmed by its own reflection, it’s feet gave way
Downwards it began to fall, until it reached the darkness below
Overtly large, awkward and blinded, it searched around
Wasted, decayed, overgrown, it sensed its new surrounding
Shadows encircled the being; a final tour de force...

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They interviewed the artist 
inside of her large blueprint mansion.
At one point she criticized America 
for being overtly materialistic.
Her painting studio alone, was large enough to
house half a dozen desperados...
but instead, it harbored dozens of giant unsold paintings.
I was amazed by how bright a person could be
but at the same time completely blind to their own 
devastating hypocrisy.
...

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Bound so tight with your silken love
tends to excite that wild beast within.
The dark of a crow and light of a dove.

This collaboration I’m eager to begin,
you leave me breathless and sweating.
I fall hard for that overtly masculine grin.

Your wet growl leaves me anticipating,
it echoes the tempo that haunts me.
Don’t say this is a game we’re playing.

Our version of forte hanky-panky,
you can’t cover this song acoustically. 
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Nay say I
the cart 
will not  
be put 
before the horse
wisdom as old as time
I will therefore 
not
tacitly
or 
overtly 
tip the nod
in “bro” fashion
in support   
of your comments
about your wife’s cooking
not until 
I have dined at her table
and tasted her cooking 
which 
I am sure
cannot be
as bad 
as you say it is
I am absolutely positive 
that a woman
with legs and a figure like hers 
will cook like an angel. 


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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

Every year, it is getting ever more weird
Unlikely now that actual songs are judged
Risky costumes and acts are getting stranger
Overtly gender-neutral in displays of pride
Voting is always political, and predictable
It all started off being just about the music
Songs themselves now seem not to matter
I admit these days I do avoid that TV show
Ostentatious spectacle has become the norm
Now, it is not even just European countries
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Soon, the instincts that kept us drawn,
Excitedly, will all be chased.
Xenophiles, that are of your case,
Uncover thoughts that have been spawned.
Aggressive measures, that are fawned,
Lead to times that we can not waste,
Issolating ourselves on base,
Zoning out until the next dawn.
As this preliminary play
Touches you in all the right spots,
Initiate love the right way,
Overtly taking the right shots.
Now, you are ready for the lay,
Sweating the words that got you hot....

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The arcs of how you work
On the PC before the desk
Chords of the circles
You paint while you talk
Hilly sentences of poems

The tales of the muscles
Swing in crimson sunshine
The machine you handle
While the steel melts
They are your boyfriends
They flirt overtly
Baskets of flowers, laugh

Sun sits on marigolds
I see you walking
Doing your hair
Talking to the unruly breeze
Holding you tight
In the pink behind

Poems ring on telephone
My rhododendron of loneliness...

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