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Best Downer Poems

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Downer
Look at me now on a downer 
  sinking in swamps of confusion, 
nothing adds up or seems to make sense 
  life...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downer, introspection, life, philosophy, me,
Form: Rhyme



And the Road Begins?
Mornings are dreadful time in life unless waking beside gorgeous woman hopefully 
a not married one  husbans can be such a downer.
And when ya...

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Categories: downer, friendship, funny, happiness, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You Silly Goose
What folly is fancy free and footloose
Please don't be fooled, tis but a ruse
If you think about it you will deduce
Freedom's never free, you silly...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downer, slam,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Killing Me Softly
Splitting straws reveal tears of unfair truth 
long and short of it bugs with ugly voices swear
Finding you are under the carpet 
hiding inside echoes...

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Categories: downer, change, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Party Time
It was a party for the ages
Everyone and their friends were there
When half way through the festivities
A loud explosion burst in the air!

Cy Cosis yelled,...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downer, parody, word play,
Form: Quatrain



I Quit the Beer-But It Never Quit Me
Someday soon 
I'm gonna quit what's killing me
The pain in my side's not by choice
But I beg to be free

I remember the days 
When it...

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Categories: downer, addiction, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member They Said
She is odd, they said.
She won’t talk to you.
She is stuck up.
She is mean.

He did not believe them.
Them who had lied about him also when...

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Categories: downer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shaken Baby
Oh the sham and serious shake,
  Earthen crust erases land.
Upset moon mourns its men.
Uplift of craven shore and ben.
  O the Winter its...

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Categories: downer, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
That's Chuck, He's My Friend
What's that in your hand?. Let me see.. He said.
It's a picture; that`s Chuck; he is my friend... I said.
You pick your friends kinda young,...

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Categories: downer, bereavement, death, emotions, friend,
Form: Epitaph
My Idiom Oneliners Part 1
Elsie the cow was slower than molasses,
that's why they finally decided to put her out to pasture.

With Stormin' Norman around you'd tremble with fear,
because all...

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Categories: downer, humor,
Form: Light Verse
New York Accent
Been in New York when I was young!
This accent is so innate in my clever well tongue.
You don’t understand how I say things,
Guess you’re a...

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Categories: downer, jealousy,
Form: I do not know?
Frenemy
Aren’t you missing me so bad?
You’re quite dramatic when you get so mad.
How I wish you say sorry for the last time.
Best apologies are as...

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Categories: downer, angst, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Strive For Greatness
Take a swing and knock it outta the park!
You can do anything you set your mind to!
Love your neighbor and all that jazz!
Those words still...

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Categories: downer, life, philosophy, social,
Form: I do not know?
Larry, Moe and Curly
Helter-skelter, upper-downer, 
Bigger smaller, richer poorer
Bitter sweeter, kinder meaner
Sifter opener, thicker thinner.

Meek or dumb, pinky and thumb
Top or bottom, height and fathom.
Head or toe, friend...

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Categories: downer, hilarious,
Form: Alliteration
Negativity
No, my mother Atheist said,
Long live cricket, God is dead,
Debbie Downer's Nihilist thoughts,
Total negativity she taught,
This is Debbie Downer' doormat daughter,
Saturday sportsmen off to the...

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Categories: downer, mother, mother daughter, sports,
Form: Free verse

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