Best Downs Poems

Someone near and dear to me 
Has a child with Downs Syndrome,
Who, more often than not
Is beyond difficult to control.

The little boy is six years old 
But acts as if he’s two,
He can’t speak at all, just yells a lot 
Throwing wild tantrums until he’s...

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Life comes with moments of sadness
touched with moments of pain
but it also comes with moments of joy
I have loved, lived and breathe
the upsides and the downsides of life
I have sacrificed many things
indulged in the finer things
I gave love, received love, found love
and lost love
I have...

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monchielle stanza

One-up-put-downs are nails:
What hubby puts up with
he usually puts down.
“Your lattice-lace curtains
make our windows look like clowns.”

One-up-put-downs are nails:
I remind him of lights -
Christmas lights on windows
put up in November.
“It’s March now, lights must go.”

One-up-put-downs are nails:
The star on the garage
has shone for three...

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Some consider they pen perfect poems - 
me, I just write about poop!


I'd win the No Bull Poetree prise butt speelling is knot my forty!

07/27/23...

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Roller coasters can be scary
Up and down your always leery
Of the next drop that will come
Until the rides finally done
Just like our relationship
Full of frightening big dips
That come out of nowhere fast
Causing your heart a big blast
That is very frightening
Like a bolt of lightening
Flashed your...

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Outrider early morn,
When training hours are borne,
They are the needed arm,
Sun, cold, wind, rain or storm,

Outrider in the sun,
Whose work is never done,
Where horses on the run,
Keep bettors having fun,

Outrider in the cold,
Ones with hearts so bold,
Their stories often told,
Of skillful ways they rode,

Outrider in...

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At the beginning it is slow 
Speeding up
Like the fastest fighter jet ever
Faster
Faster
Screaming
Twisting Turning 
Flying Soaring
Endless ups and downs
Anticipation of an end
Finally the ends has come
Why don’t we give it another go...

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There are times when waking up is hard
Easier when you are near yet difficult if far
That's when I stay down like a fallen card
As though I am as stuck as a star.

Do you watch the moon while I see it shine?
Are there lights or is...

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~Life's Ups And Downs ~ 
 ( Free Style )


 Life has of course its ups and downs 
 It can be so hard at times I know 
 Sometimes we just feel so bad 
 But with God's help we can make it through...

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I was the youngest kid of eight
Halloween was never that great
Orange clown shoes were too big
An old purple horrendous witch's wig

My sisters tutu I that wouldn't use
My brothers cape smelled of doo doo
Superman pants that didn't latch
And that makeup covered eye patch

That Halloween I knocked...

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Those born into a family large will know whereof I speak.
Your chances of donning the newest clothes was very, very bleak!
Alas, hand-me-downs became a tradition at our humble house.
Being at the end of the clothes chain always made me grouse!

I had the dubious honor of...

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They say a life journey is full of ups and downs
They also say in life, you should start at the bottom and work your way up
I find this totally confusing and no help at all when I’m with you
My muddle is your bottoms in the...

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The shuttering crimes inflicted on the mind
Always causes havoc
In the state of the soul
The sudden mystification 
The conjuring realization to reality
The considerable paths of acquisitions
The zithering low downs
A recapitulation of phylogeny
On ontogeny
An endegenous factor of misconceptions
But yet the machenism remains unknown
To such its 
A violation...

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Smiles
for fun
cuddly pets
falling in love
small children trying things for the first time

When I see someone treated unfairly
war and hunger
unshed tears
make me
frown


"First Place" win !
Written by:  Shani Fassbender
for the contest:  "Smiles and Frowns"
Form:  Tetractys...

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