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
A View From a WindowAs 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
Death Undignified, Fort Laramie 1860High 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 StrangeIn 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
AbhorYour 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 PeopleFlirt 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
Canto Xviii Hell TranslationIn 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
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto IxThat 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
Canto Xx Hell TranslationOf 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 WaterGlimmer 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
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 StorytellingFacedown 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
No One Is InnocentSoldiers 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 LetterThis 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 DownsDip 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
Salt LickingsTo 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