Short Overturned Poems

hard wind
the trees are overturned
run away...

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Violence whisks life away
Anger
Overturned
Your fatal flaw...

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My mask
        Relaxed

        Ate snacks
        Played jacks…

        Made tracks...

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The ants nodded knowingly to each other
   A honey-pot overturned
      ~ Anteater licked his lips...

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   a small plot of tears
     overflowing discerned

   ground uprooted now covered
     friendship overturned...

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Early morning thud...
the bedroom door opens wide...
ginger cat scampers
frightened by the sudden sound 
of an overturned tchotchke...

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Trump gained considerable wealth
But it took a toll on his health
So all that Trump earned
Will be overturned
As doctors collect wealth by stealth!...

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Gr ace kingpin

Queen of hearts
Jack of trades
10  9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Zero cards on table
as the world is overturned

suspended in air
expansive city in silver tones
bedecked with jewels

Saints on board
...

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Home, a peaceful state of mind; 
Indigestible, impossible to find;
Raging in a retched restlessness, 
abstract visions, nothing tangible; 
Every echo emerging swallowing me,
taking with it my overturned roots;
How can I find my way home?...

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lush lilac lilies 
Monet art in flushed garden…
overturned palette

sunburst sky shimmers
colors explode in flowers…
spring canvas enthralls

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June 4, 2023
Syllable count 5/7/5 (HMS)
Contest : Show Don't Tell, Tell Don't Show
Sponsored by : Dilly Dally...

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84 people dead,
No regret said,
More critical, holding on,
Somebody’s partner, someone’s son.

France stands for liberty, 
Which was wrought on Bastille Day, 
When the people overturned, 
The government who learned. 

Don’t let religion in, 
Pure democracy’s win, 
Grit your teeth and hold on 
To derogate ISIS and religion....

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Immortality looking invincible, 
Athena's arpon arsing shadows, 

Amazonite unfading Athenaeum species, 
A lasting blade for an immortal legacies, 

Fallacies befall the inconsistencies,
Fragrances crash the inconveniences... 

Extinction of lives is overturned by heavenly bliss,
Angels are guardian spirits, 

Humanity is saved,
Hell is dead....

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I rode a unicorn for miles,
And then a dragon flew me here.
The fairies took me to their queen,
Who introduced me to the seer.
He prophesised my kingdom’s fall,
But witches chanted, cast a spell;
Their magic overturned the curse.
My quest is over: all is well.
Still round the corner there may wait, 
A new road or a secret gate.

* Last two lines are the Tolkien quote...

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Graying clouds, faces
Sprinkled with tears of sorrow...
Deepening thunders

Howling winds, braces
Buffeted by ghastly breath...
Trembling ropes and spikes

Blowing rains, vases
Overturned near grave diggers...
Strewn flower petals

Clearing skies, races
Blanketed the pink coffer...
Gifting her gray vault

Waning tears, faces
Leaked with canopy waters...
Tossing earth within...

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The end of our dreams
flow in shattered discord
like a wineglass overturned
In our fruitless searches
bereavement impales
as we pour the bottle on the floor
Watching each drop
collect and pool
swirling in bitter waves
Our tongues are stained
with that sweet taste
rose tinted
with hints of sage
and as our spirits rise
from a body so fine
they will pour us in our graves...

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unabashed analyzation
overturned rocks 
and constant contemplations
an effortful acceptance 
spurned out of desperation 
gathers speed now flying
taking, ticking, tocking
the past once regretted 
incomplete when forgotten
ambitious non-removal
ticking now, now tocking
can through such a fog
of dense perplexity
a life be shaken loose
can something take me
tick me, tock me...

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You and I 
 Are here and gone 
 In the breath of a lie
 In the space of a song

 Overturned and reversed
 By the force of a spell
 In the lull of a curse
 In the toll of a bell

 Instantly changed
 Sown or dispersed
 Our souls rearranged
 In a rueful dirge

 You and I in the rain
 Without eye or limb
 Dislodged and deranged
 We move like the wind

 Written by © Raven Drake...

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    Matzo ball soup, gefilte fish
      cook me up a Jewish dish
    Kneidels and kreplach, knishes too
      a bissele Chinese, egg yong foo… 

    Chopped liver and herring
      and if you’re so daring
    Grind the horseradish to bits
      serve mit red onion shpritz

    Nisht fargessen dessert
      rugelach and torts
    Roe v. Wade’s overturned ~
      it's kosher to abort
...

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Stretched to elasticity’s extreme…
nothing more to give; 
like an overturned cup,
the nectar drained and dried 
to granulated etchings on the rim.

What was that said
about a heart filled to the brim,
running over with love’s treasures?

A bitter heart leaks away
till after time and after tears,
grief’s blank mosaic tiles the floor,
and the steps of all who enter
echo in the dark.


© 1987, Faye Lanham Gibson...

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In your deep gaze
   one day I dived up
   I felt the world overturned
   on island of love woke up ...

   Your eyes dreamed reveries
   but it had a distant glow
   in special strange world lived
   just a passerby sans soul.

  Your look made me captive
  for the promise  made inactive
  innocuous offer did not succeed

  it wasn't what it looked to be
  promised sweet paradise to me
  but instead was hell and agony!...

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hands moving 
one face
on a clock
tick
ticking in darkness
cold feelings
echoes reaching
out within silence
twisting insides
hurt upon 
the soul

consuming insides
emotions overturned
darkness crawls
living in shadows
eating light
crushing deep
breaking up
into shattered pieces

sorting within
a jigsaw
with one 
missing piece
still to be found
only love 
takes away darkness
shining light
a puzzle 
the piece 
comes together
within a dream...

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Bits of rubber, tape, and glue,
A bed that once looked very new.
Overstuffed shelves covered in dust,
Tables and chairs, creaky with rust. 
Crumpled papers, an overturned lamp,
My dirty old covers, sweaty and damp. 
Cardboard and glitter and paint and wire,
Several pieces of my dad's flat tire.
Banana peels, an apple core,
A half-eaten pizza on the floor.
A grilled cheese sandwich, moldy and green,
Maybe sometime I'll start to clean......

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ALWAYS!In God may I be a warmth for you on a cold cloudy day;
Like an umbrella in the rain May I cover you always;
 May I embrace your heart's desires journey along your pathways;
May I  be overturned upside down umbrella to catch the heavenly Waters at Bay;
Drenched we are saturated hearts,
may God's waters Our Father continually rain;
 reign rain down on us ALWAYS!



8/2/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023...

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the judge presiding 
over the emotional court 
emotional judgment 
final say fell upon deaf ears
jury of emotional peers 
were gathered around 
to witness the 
lawyers argue their case 
trial lasted only a few hours 
till the jury made their deliberation
the verdict passed 
down was a conviction of
guilty as charged on all accounts
sentenced to life with no parole
appealed the decision many times till one day they 
overturned the emotional sentence...

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I would have less surprised if they had chased down religious mothers
And murdered them in their carpeted hymn singing churches
They were frenzied, fanatically incensed, a revved up mob
Brains had been overturned by the whip tongue of the outgoing czar.
Blood splatters on the pristine building left a fleshy carnage.
Who has the noose?
Where is the vice president?
Steal and loot. Plunder. Pillage.
An insurrection no one can be proud of, making it a weirdy cat week....

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