Best Facedown Poems
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, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and hide.
Outside, the twisted streets retreat. Last night they seemed so...
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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 pane
of dearly brought glass, I feel the vibration of incoming riders.
The pale blue sky disappears in a cloud of dust....
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Categories:
facedown, memory,
Form:
Sestina
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 the imaginary score,
Nothing I ever did,
Seem to matter to you anymore.
My stomach will always be,
Too soft for you,
My presence...
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Categories:
facedown, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
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. It springs a joy to which the townspeople are magnetically drawn. The water below is clean and clear. This morning...
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Categories:
facedown, death, depression, society,
Form:
Haibun
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 watery
So I can't steer
And I'm getting dizzy
Stomach very queezy
Thank god for Sprite and tylonal
Thank god for my other...
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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 middle zones
Are the seat for a well much wide and deep,
Of which I will portray order it owns.
The remaining band...
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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 as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach much far more
Through the black air and too for the...
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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 desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten of mournful cry plenty;
And I saw people in round valley...
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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 the lovers pond
Where every young lovers met and
had their first kiss
Her pure sweetness flows to the edges
where...
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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 he doesn't like to milk a cow.
He likes to play upside-down,
With his very cute puppy, chowchow,
And in every...
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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 it coming, tell me, how could I have
slipped? But let me back it up a bit and tell you...
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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 relatives
Who's really our enemy
When your killing your family
To live by a cause
Diseased by corruption
No matter what faction
Your reason is false...
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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, nor here nor there,
a million of my memories
empty mindedness,
despair
Bushido, my creed
is like the lotus in bloom,
Nihon hear my cries!
empty mindedness,
doom
My...
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Categories:
facedown,
Form:
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 me in a car to drive to town
Lets go to the circus to see the clown
Make me really sad to...
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Categories:
facedown, imagination, me, old, me,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Islands Far, Far AwayMission Control, this is Flight Z924693744, do you read?
We're having some technical trouble. How should we proceed?
We have spotted a planet, that appears to be suitable to abort;
But, to return to earth, we will need an alternate transport.
The Capsule Communicator didn't answer at all, unfortunately;
So,...
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Categories:
facedown, adventure, fantasy, friendship love,
Form:
Couplet