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Best Knockdown Poems


Driven Crazy
...Driven Crazy in 41

You were there in forty one, 
When Australia it called,
King  an country it was fun,
 Adventure it enthralled.

On a hill in Syria,
 Death was to be denied,
French Foreig......

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Categories: knockdown, adventuredeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl In the Park
...I was waiting at the bus stop, for the number nine to take me uptown,
that’s when I saw her in the park, sitting crossed-legged on the ground.
The sun reflected in her golden hair, her lips were bl......

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Categories: knockdown, poetry,
Form: Lyric
Housing Nightmare
...What too do about housing foreclosure?

maybe...just rent a bulldozer,

tear off the roof,knockdown some walls

at least have some personal closure...



*......

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Categories: knockdown, funny
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Circus Is Coming To Town
...Excitement explodes with anticipation today,
Colorful flyers say the circus is coming to town
With animal acts, clowns, and music so gay.

Soon the big top will be going up, a holiday......

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Categories: knockdown, celebration, fun, happiness, summer,
Form: Villanelle
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 me in a car to drive to town
Lets go to the circus to see the clown
Make me really sad t......

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Categories: knockdown, imagination, me, old, me,
Form: Rhyme
Repetition
...She lays in bed and wipes the tears
From her eyes
Her lips are raw and puffed up
She plays her music really loudly
So she can try and feel nothing.
Sad and lonely
She always seems so hollow and......

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Categories: knockdown, abuse, bullying, confusion, emotions,
Form: Ballad



Suicide Is Not the Best Solution
...When it seems you are sinking in sorrow
and it's hard to stand the pains of tomorrow.
Stop following the footpath of frustration,
Suicide is not the best solution.

When encouraging words seem s......

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Categories: knockdown, anxiety, courage, death, depression,
Form: Didactic
When I Was Immortal
...When I was immortal, I believe I lived right
maybe not healthy or safe, but right.
I could stay awake for days
Drink my weight in liquid gold and
Roll up the next day feeling like royalty craving......

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Categories: knockdown, age, death, hope, life,
Form:
Note To Self
...You may be down, but you're not done
The best of you is yet to come
A knockdown isn't a knockout 
And a knockout means a new fight
To lose is to win
Because it teaches you how to look within
Wh......

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Categories: knockdown, emotions, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Howami Hmm Good Question
...Howami? hmm... good question,
but for some unknown reason
more tired than usual...,
without daily twenty four hours
proper rest, I feel haggard.

I strongly suspect (a hunch acquired
upon retu......

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Categories: knockdown, 12th grade, dream, happiness,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Such Was My Luck
...Throughout my childhood, to about my fourth
birthday, I was a happy, playful boy.
Till Dad got back from war: from that day forth,
I was his to punish: his knockdown toy.

Pinocchio's wi......

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Categories: knockdown, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Three Old Crows
...Three old crows were standing head-to-head
Conversing in the hallway between the classes
Wondering who they were dissing, with dread,
I knew fellow teachers they thought jacka**es,

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Categories: knockdown, community, society,
Form: Quatrain
This Can'T Be Dialogue
...Although my baby and I are not pugilists
and we never ever brawl with our fists
we have knockdown drag out fights
every Friday night


Roundhouses to the ego 
Sucker punches to the past
Draw ......

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Categories: knockdown, analogy, anxiety, conflict, relationship,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Damp with pain
...#Damp_with_pain
These floors have drank much of my tears, see these salt spots corroding even the tar, how deep and fatal is my pain, see the blood lines tattooed in my eyes, they stem deep inside m......

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Categories: knockdown, deep, depression, grief, inspiration,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry