Best Live Down Poems
Redneck Family Reunion...Every couple 'a years or so
Our family reunites
It takes a couple 'a years or so
To recover from the fights
A family like our'n
Doesn't party like most do
Ours gets a little out of hand
Tha......
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Categories:
live down, america, crazy, fishing, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Evacuation and Loss...The night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant high upon the hill?
......
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Categories:
live down, bereavement, child, depression, family,
Form:
Narrative
February 29...We’ve each been given an extra day,
It happens one year in four.
And we will have to account for it,
When God’s adding up our score.
Will you just waste this precious day,
As so often you have......
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Categories:
live down, inspirational, day, day,
Form:
Didactic
The Demons Adore Me...They no longer sneak into my soul in the middle of the night
Whispering mean things about me, hurting my feelings.
Because that is no longer satisfying
Now they laugh as I clench my teeth in the d......
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Categories:
live down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Prose Poetry
It Takes a Village...We are the neighbors
Who live down your street
We are the ones
Who your kids love to hate
We are the ones who actually sit outside
Watching our children while they are at play
Making sure al......
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Categories:
live down, absence, child, family, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Wine Song...Chianti, Riesling, Chardonnay;
What kinda wine we gonna have today?
Pass that bottle, if you please -
I think I'll have a little more Chablis!
Swirl that stuff 'round in the glass...
Show 'em ......
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Categories:
live down, funny,
Form:
Lyric
I Want Viv Wigleys Hat...I want to be the man in that black hat
Sitting down under where the Aussies do play
Drinking in barrels, Bundaberg ale
Smiling under my cool black hat
Now I haven’t his hat
Nor that cool Auss......
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Categories:
live down, dedication, fashion, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Be Wise, Do Not Plagiarise...You've ignited a fire beyond what you know,
my smooth hand glides providing the flow,
striking lightening that makes the mind blow,
you stole my rhymes and put them on show.
I followed the trai......
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Categories:
live down, corruption, poetry, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Cold Love...We can all read that the love will become cold
We can all see that what has been foretold
Is the world we live in now
We can be amazed that two thousand years ago
It was written where the world......
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Categories:
live down, christian, irony, love hurts,
Form:
Ode
Summer Sounds...One simple sound always reminds me of summer.
Sitting on the porch , the air heavy with the fragrance
of the lilac at the corner of the house..the sound of crickets
a backdrop for summer dreaming......
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Categories:
live down, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
I Said a Prayer...I said a prayer for my fellowmen,
The world needs people who’re
Gentle, kind, fair, want the same
For self and others too.
I said a prayer for my family,
To be trusting, loyal, honest,
Supp......
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Categories:
live down, deep, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form:
Verse
Born: 1980 - Detroit, Michigan...Our old Plymouth wagon sits junked in the yard
Collecting pine needles and rust
Ten years of abuse and driven too hard
Now an eyesore, the neighbors might fuss
Chrysler Corporation was not at t......
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Categories:
live down, grief, me, son,
Form:
Quatrain
Hollyhocks...it was a chorus line of hollyhocks against a crumbling red brick building
that devastated my poem,
they laid waste to the words you asked me to write,
you said I would try to hurt you with my inte......
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Categories:
live down, allegory, inspirational, introspection, nostalgia,
Form:
Postscript To a Passion...POSTSCRIPT TO A PASSION
I was hoping you would prove me wrong -
Under the ship’s sides the barnacles still cling -
I would have thought you’d never sell our song
But true to typecast, summer m......
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Categories:
live down, addiction, games, goodbye, leaving,
Form:
Sonnet
Wrong Destination...Unaided and jaded within a world I have created,
isolated and left alone I see my light travelling has faded.
I walked and ran to sit then stand and in my mind’s eye,
I figured my plan......
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Categories:
live down, adventure, creation, travel,
Form:
Couplet