Best Face The Music Poems


Premium Member This Spaceship Is Sinking
...The Titanic played its music
                                  Right up till the end
                            The band played on in the
                                     predawn hours
     ......

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Categories: face the music, earth, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Adventures of Johnny Quest
...The Adventures Of Johnny Quest

Hey, Haji, it's Johnny, I've a new game, so come on over.
Okay Johnny I'll be right over, I'm leaving now, see you soon.
I wonder what sort of new game ......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: face the music, celebration, character, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Face the Music
...My summer garden revealed gay pansies with faces,
As the scarlet tanagers flew roundabout singing.
A rapt audience, the flowers beamed in all places,
In the hour that golden butterflies were wingi......

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Categories: face the music, beauty, bird, color, flower,
Form: Rhyme

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My Idiom Oneliners Part 2
...I noticed that the grass was always greener on the other side, as I made my way to the 18th hole and practiced my drive.

As I zip lined across with the greatest of ease, I finally noticed for the ......

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Categories: face the music, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Sweet Little Lies
...No need to break my beautiful sky
It is better to tell a little lie
Than to face the music, how and why
Better be the deceptive I
And not to trouble the existential tie

We are programmed for e......

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Categories: face the music, anxiety, desire, fear, jealousy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Trust Me - Tanka
...Dejected in love
                         I act in defiance of,
                          yet face the music
                      Why not look into my face,
                      Embrace panopti......

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Categories: face the music, courage, irony, love,
Form: Tanka


Catch-22
...It’s an old story.
We were classmates, you and I, 
And later became colleagues,
Working under the same roof.
We had more or less the same specialization.
Married in the same year.
Our children ......

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: face the music, irony, life,
Form: Narrative
Vituperations of An Oppressed Man
...VITUPERATIONS OF AN OPPRESSED MAN
Heaven will not smile on your home
Neither will the sun rise in your dome
For you have crossed my zone
And indeed crushed my bone
You fed me with doom
Just bec......

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Categories: face the music, anger,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member I Am All Ears
...Well, aren’t you a sight for sore EYES 
Off the top of my HEAD its been nearly two years

Yes ,I have been keeping busy
A FINGER in every pie that’s me
It has been a bit of a struggle
I did put......

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: face the music, body, fun, silly,
Form: Free verse
Rain Check
...Love it is 
Love it will be
Love is what i feel 
This is love and 
Happiness 


I know this isn't love
Love is what i need it to be
Love is what i want this to be 
But my heart is like a li......

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© Dee Raa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: face the music, anxiety, betrayal, blue, break
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fugitive
...The Fugitive

He’s now subdued and has health issues.
He was once in a dysfunctional marriage.
He’s presently in a stable relationship.

He’s more responsible and doesn’t drink like he use to.
......

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Categories: face the music, abuse, addiction, daughter, family,
Form: Narrative
Deadbeat System
...I know a deadbeat system when I see one 
 Charging 25 cent in a public bathroom for napkins
When it should be free
 Sharing a public bathroom with men and women 
When the bathroom should be separ......

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Categories: face the music, pain, drug,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Sixteen Trillion Going On Seventeen
...Our debt’s sixteen trillion going on seventeen
Obama it’s time to think

Better beware coz your new health care
Is putting us on the brink

Our debt’s sixteen trillion going on seventeen
No re......

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Categories: face the music, funny, political, sad, satire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Double Down -A Rondel For Donald Trump
...A Rondel for Donald Trump

As those Fake News polls keep coming 'round
And their predictions drag you down,
Just face the music like a Man
Deny it all, the best you can:
Try to deny that deepen......

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Categories: face the music, political,
Form: Roundel
Foreseeing Eventualities
...This poem is about our inability to avoid eventualities. The sooner we can accept them, the sooner we can prepare for them. In the darkness is where the light will be revealed.


You were born, an......

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Categories: face the music, death, happiness, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
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