Overstaying Poems - Poems about Overstaying

...Unstain As I reach for fresh paper In the hopes to start over I dog-eared that chapter Yellowed in time Seeped in tea Sepia to the tee You stained me Like old photographs From distant m......Read the rest...

...Doubting thomas doth hanker to live in (or share)... a house without gossips nor gonifs with the missus Maybe a pair of stray eyes will alight on my post might subsequently manifest destiny as......Read the rest...

...drumbeat of hell-bent youth yet bids us onward graying, fraying......Read the rest...

...It’s great living in a country town that still can offer peace, when I come home from a stressful day to finally release all the tension from a hectic job, that near leaves me in a heap, and knowi......Read the rest...

...An eggplant need not taste nor look like egg, Nor in a hamburger ham need be there, Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg? Nor yet french-fries in France invented were. They native are— America......Read the rest...

...Shallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite; There, clinging forlornly against the hanging grey ......Read the rest...

...I have no place to call home I have no man to call friend Alone in this dreadful world With the sky as my roof: And the clouds as my blanket How safe can I be? I am a sojourner! I go anyplac......Read the rest...

...A monarch known as Flutterby ruled her kingdom by being herself. She encouraged others to do the same. Visit every garden that suits your fancy she told her subjects. Breakfast with me daily. ......Read the rest...

...What Life's Treasures And Sweet Gems Should Be Life's gems should be, more than anxiety, sad sorrows, cryptic words Man existing should be, more than blind, slavish-chained beasts in huge city ......Read the rest...

...flag holds onto porch all snow has melted away — leaves disappear too? 1/24/2018......Read the rest...

...Yes, I have often seen, the early rising sun when I wake to witness, another day begun. But when I see tomorrow’s, it will surely be the best! Yes, I have seen the Seasons, in ritual parade, a......Read the rest...

...To hell with them! I never think of them I forget they exist, until I spot them Then I get mad! Oh yes, I loathe them so, as much as I do roaches I loathe them so much I feel like screaming ......Read the rest...

...The sun has become the source of such anguish I wish it would obscure itself behind the clouds I long to see that lively flame extinguished. It is always there. I feel it burn through my pride. ......Read the rest...

...Unexpected Peers (An acrostic ode to Poetry Soup and it's members) (9.7.10) Passion Overwhelmed Elementary Thoughts. Roaming Youth Saw Out, Under Pen. Prolific Obsession Engrossed ......Read the rest...

...I had another lover over last night. Loneliness. Knocking on my door, even though he has his own key. Beneath my silent covers he crawls. Mummers moist against my blue bruised sighs. I confess......Read the rest...