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Best Back Down Poems

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Premium Member Jesus Christ Is Coming Back Down
To the tune of "Santa Clause Is Coming To Town"

You better look up,
prepare for His sight.
The Lord will come back
some day or some night.
Jesus Christ...

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Categories: back down, angel, celebration, christmas, god,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant
*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***

Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests 
No blood in his steak,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back down, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Moment of Truth
I was walking with two friends of mine,
when we saw a woman
who was tall, beautiful and black
They spoke lewd to her,
so she didn't speak back
In...

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Categories: back down, perspective, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member An Insignificant Life - Collaboration With the Seeker
That godless sound
His head explodes at 6:01am
Same as every day
He falls out of bed
Steps on the cat
Slides into his slippers
Shuffles to the kitchen
Puts the coffee...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back down, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tangled Vines
I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new...

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Categories: back down, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse



When Love Is Forever
Resting on the beige leather couch
 next to the dimly lit tiffany lamp
He dozed off into an early night sleep

She smiled looking at him
 as...

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Categories: back down, love,
Form: Free verse
One Hundred Thirty-Six Pretty Petals
Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
          Garden flowers whisper
      Peeking through...

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Categories: back down, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 4 - Homer Lone
Rum was feeling playful so he went to find a mouse
He looked in every nook and cranny right throughout the house
But all the mice were...

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Categories: back down, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ice Cube Pie
I always wanted two slices of ice cube pie
“You only get one”, was the standard reply.
I don’t know why I did
But since I was a...

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Categories: back down, business, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Puppy Love Vs True Love
Once love, or rather, that which I thought was love
Swept me over
And had me racing up on a highway
I raced up and up
Till I reached...

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Categories: back down, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Red Rose of the Moulin Rouge
I awaken; the darkened skies my alarm clock
I reek of whiskey, scotch and pastis
Tumbling out of bed, I reach for a cigarette
The dusk harkens as...

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Categories: back down, rose,
Form: Light Verse
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: back down, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Companion
The old man sits in his chair by the door
His dog lies beside him curled up on the floor
Ever since that day when the man...

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© Rob Biden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: back down, age, death, dog, sad,
Form: Verse
Breathe
Inhale: You touch me softly, then kisses me with delight.
Exhale:  It feels so good to me the spots you touch are just right.
Inhale: Should...

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Categories: back down, life, loss, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Indie Anna Jones

Foxy ponytail got a sharp tongue,
her pretty jade eyes blink-blink lashes 
really cut to the chase

Keep the skirt hounds on the run,
obsession scent spur their...

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Categories: back down, cool, identity, romantic, word
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things