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Premium Member The Downside of Being a Poet-Unedited
Poets have a greater capacity
to express love and longing
painting pictures of passion's pleasures
They excite and ignite the imagination
That's the beauty of being a poet

Poets are so steeped in the need for beauty in wording
that they use their talents even in posts
Weaving wonder with words
they make...

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Categories: downside, poets, words,
Form: Free verse
Downside of a Writer
They say Im a lover but I know I can also be a fighter/ 
Im living in darkness today knowing tomorrow ain't going to get any brighter/ 
Im so heavy in the pain I don't know when *****in life is going to get any lighter/
...

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Categories: downside, on writing and words,
Form: Alliteration
The Downside To An Up-Hill Battle
Why don’t you go along with me when it’s so obvious that I am right?
I think that your contrariness is more than I can deal with for tonight.

It’s really very childish that you won't to concede to me this point,
I know that you are only...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downside, funny, me, me,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Upside Down and Downside Up
Upside down 
and downside up
trucks come and go 
and never stop
they swish and sway 
the alligator way
hoping to play
so they can stay
Oh how they want 
to be wild and free
so they can play the alligator way....

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Categories: downside,
Form:
The Downside To Love
You drive me crazy,
I can't control myself,
You make me so mad,
I can't think straight,
You give me whiplash,
I hate you so much for that.

But I can't hate you.

You are my saviour, 
I owe you everything,
You make me so happy,
I never want it to end,
You help me...

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Categories: downside, lost loveme, time, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Downside of Spring
On the frigid wings of the northern breeze 
waned winter with frayed feathers flies away, 
clears the mist from shining sky out of freeze, 
song of birds brings life in ambiance grey. 

On silken leaves’ cradle blooming buds glow, 
with cascade of color petals unfold,
zephyr...

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Categories: downside, analogy, nature, spring,
Form: Sonnet



The Downside of Restraint
though the two 
held in their extreme
horniness, there was
no hiding that look in
their eyes---that one
where the want to tear
off the clothes of 
said hot body was
one which brought
them carnally back to
the roll in the hay of 
their ancestors &
for a minute, there
was no doubt between
the...

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Categories: downside, life, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Downside Spring
So, sure, the sun shines brightly every morn,
And birds will share, with all their brilliant tunes;
Amazing colored flowers will adorn
What once were gray and blah and lifeless dunes.

Admittedly it’s warmer in the day,
And cloudless skies can cheer the weary heart,
And gentle breezes whisk the blues...

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Categories: downside, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Downside Up Snowman
Lodged on a high valley in this far town
People like to turn the world upside down
In winter sky overturns
The snow cover children churn
Snowmen they make do something new on own.

A fat snowman comes to park downside up
Sniffing the frozen ground with red nose sharp
To stay...

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Categories: downside, humorous, snow,
Form: Limerick
A Downside of Adulthood
Whatever you discover,
It’s the grown-up thing to share it
And when others flaunt their joy in it,
You have to grin and bear it.

For there really is no reason
To keep secret what you’ve found
When some other folks can benefit
From how you’ve worked the ground.

Still, there might be...

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Categories: downside, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Downside Ups
Spirits eclipse Left
Wisdoms backseat a right mind
heavenly coupons...

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Categories: downside, absence, abuse, analogy, conflict,
Form: Haiku
Downside Up of Confused World
nose started to see 
                                 with feeling sense of smelling 
  ...

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Categories: downside, nature, people, philosophy, today,
Form: Tanka
Smile Turned Downside Up
Moments of despair with anguish and resent unroll,
With the touch of some cold memories and decontrol,
They crumble my heart and I feel ruffled again.
As ripples when they waveringly resurface, 
I try and held myself against them and brace.
Once again I play a silent war with...

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© Di Nandini  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downside, cheer up, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Up the Downside
As I climb the ladder I am going up the down side

                  by James Edward Lee Sr.
           ...

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Categories: downside, allusion,
Form: Monoku
The Downside of Not Voting
If you don't vote, 
Extremists will take note,
And politicians will seek a different coloured coat,
As extremists become more eager to vote,
With your absence at the polling booth giving them hope,
That democracy will work in their favour, 
And their words will be the only ones of...

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Categories: downside, analogy, anger, anxiety, bible,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry