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Best Down To Earth Poems

Below are the all-time best Down To Earth poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of down to earth poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: down to earth, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member I Wish I Were a Unicorn

I wish I were a Unicorn
   So smooth and white with shiny horn
To prance and dance on clouds up there
   And...

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Categories: down to earth, horse, imagination, inspiration, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await
(I.)
Within Golden Walls, Love's Gardens Await

Ripe are swelled grapes upon glowing vine
my darling on love's bounty we shall dine
in our paradise rests more than a...

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Categories: down to earth, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eve of Evening
Where to turn, oh friend I ask
I chose to turn to you,
if you'd be so kind. 

Though I try hard to describe the beauty 
heard...

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Categories: down to earth, eve, life, music,
Form: Verse
One Hundred Thirty-Six Pretty Petals
Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
          Garden flowers whisper
      Peeking through...

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Categories: down to earth, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Free verse



Birds Eye Self Surveillance
Theres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising. 
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...

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Categories: down to earth, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mythology of Pegasus
Born from the neck of his beheaded mother,
as her blood soaked the ground,
he rose and soared from the gore,
a beautiful winged stallion
most wondrous and divine...

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Categories: down to earth, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Them Hot Air Balloons
SOCIETY AND THE HOT AIR BALLOON

Them that need to climb
ride as the hot air balloon--
soon come down to earth

© Harry J Horsman 1992



THE VIRTUAL HOT...

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Categories: down to earth, people, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Why of Who I Am
The why of who I am would take a book
to give full explanation, but right here
I’ll spell it out – though I cannot be brief,
for...

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Categories: down to earth, me,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Categories: down to earth, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form: Rhyme
How Poetry Began
0ne Sunny day the angels sat, assembled on the clouds,
Some played harps, others sang, they all looked very proud.
A few were showing new wings, they’d...

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Categories: down to earth, angel, birth, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between November and December
November comes down gliding on filmy wings, 
Bringing cool and dank days on her way
Sweet it is to watch the spectacular changes she brings
In a...

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Categories: down to earth, angst, autumn, beautiful, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Toms Travels
In a show of manic one-upmanship
With my wife saying, “Just get a grip.”
I planned an adventure to show I’m well travelled
The spoiler to that is...

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Categories: down to earth, humorous, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Pied Piper For Me
His line and verse flow like honey
Lovely, smooth, bright and sunny
A pied piper for me

He speaks of love in phrases pure
His words take wing, on...

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Categories: down to earth, friendship, poetry, poets,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Gypsy Eyes
The pierce, the flame of gypsy eyes, that roam
    about your cheeks aflame, that throb at knees.
     ...

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Categories: down to earth, sensual,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs