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Best Facedown Poems

Below are the all-time best Facedown poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of facedown poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: facedown, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860
High noon in Fort Laramie, the summer sun is oppressive.
A whalebone corset digs into my body’s tender parts.
Peering from the shop, my hand touching the...

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Categories: facedown, memory,
Form: Sestina
The Morning Was Strange
In the centre of the small town is a small town square. In the centre of the small town square is a small water fountain....

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Categories: facedown, death, depression, society,
Form: Haibun
Abhor
Your ocean waves have, 

Beaten me down, 

Across the rocky shore,

As I lay facedown, 

Thinking about our lore, 



How nothing I did, 

Seemed to even...

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Categories: facedown, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Hurt People Hurt People
Flirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear 
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is...

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Categories: facedown, deep, depression, feelings, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Canto Xviii Hell Translation
In hell is called Malebolge a site
Completely made of ferrous color stones  
As almost all the rim around looks quite.

Of the malignant field the...

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Categories: facedown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw 
His new squeezing inside much more took place.

He heedful stopped...

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Categories: facedown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Canto Xx Hell Translation
Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with...

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Categories: facedown, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Body of a Water
Glimmer is her body of a water 
Deep crystal clear surrounded by 
overgrown trees and wild flowers 
Situated between two villages  
also known as...

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Categories: facedown, child, death, grief, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So So the Clown - the Quatrain Style
~So -  So The Clown ~ 
( Unmetered Quatrain)


So - So the Clown 
He's a very happy fellow 
He never wears a frown 
But...

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Categories: facedown, character, fantasy, children, ,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Storytelling
Facedown on the carpet I just knew that I would die, 
the red obscures my vision as the blood dripped in 
my eye,

I never saw...

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Categories: facedown, urbanme, life, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No One Is Innocent
Soldiers in uniforms
Crucifying their brothers
In order to establish
Justice for their colors
Why on earth is this
Even accepted
To kill and proclaim
Death by dismemberment
Killing all people
Our friends and...

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Categories: facedown, betrayal, corruption, death, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Hara Kiri: a Letter
This summer breeze
upon my menacing blade,
no kaishakunin, only emptiness,
empty mindedness,
unafraid

The Hokkaido seas
restless like a school child,
stir within my cup of tea
empty mindedness,
beguiled

Mountains of Sakura
fill me,...

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Categories: facedown,
Form: I do not know?
Whole Lotta Downs
Dip me in the pool to cool me down
Sit me in the sun to make me brown
Put me on a throne to give me crown
Take...

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Categories: facedown, imagination, me, old, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Salt Lickings
To the theater went bold Mary Brown

for her sweetness she's surely renown

then she salted her corn

when her date wanted ****

Now he lies in the aisle...

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Categories: facedown, funny,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs