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Best Throw Down Poems

Below are the all-time best Throw Down poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of throw down poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets 2
8.Reading

I see them all rise to an endless sky.
Tumbling burnt pages from raging fire,
To leave ash of closer, to pacify.
A single deep breath near flaming...

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Categories: throw down, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Nebulous Streams Clouding My Brain
Nebulous streams, clouding my brain
     hoping my thoughts will fall like rain.
Thunder and lightning mix the brew
    ...

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Categories: throw down, inspiration, metaphor, writing,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Yield
Yield? Not to you, I certainly won't. 
I'll parry on hot coals, I'll lunge to your affront.
Succumb? I'll not breathe your air of lies,
Since no...

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Categories: throw down, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Venus Dreamer
Collaboration, Constance La France First Sonnet, and, second Sonnet Sotto Poet

Dreamer, can you feel my kiss on your cheek,
the flutter of my hands upon your...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throw down, appreciation, dream, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Between the Lines
Nebulous streams, clouding my brain
Vapor trail dreams, from paper airplanes
Cherry red glow, watch with no chain
Ribbons and bows, tied to the flames

Anchors on strings, hanging...

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Categories: throw down, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: throw down, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
F With My King
Iight, this is a responce to two other raps. First it was my friend. Then his friend and then me. 

Funny how momma and daddy...

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Categories: throw down, family, slam,
Form: Free verse
Eternity
I am looking right at you and you don’t even know it.
I will deter your intent and throw you off a steep cliff.
But in the...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: throw down, dedication, devotion, faith, funny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Vomit
Am I vomiting?
Or do I throw down instead of up.
Singing with a sudden frown,
In barf upon a promised gown.

I wore it to prom as a...

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Categories: throw down, art, humor, humorous, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Is In the Air


Take off your woolen scarf and coat.
Your hood conceals your pretty hair!
Now chance for snow grows more remote!
Breathe easy. Spring is in the air.

The flu;...

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Categories: throw down, spring,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Givings
Giving's being charitable;
Giving openhanded;
Generous and benevolent;
Just and generous;
Bountiful, mean;
                ...

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Categories: throw down, blessing, caregiving, change, community,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dear Lord - a Prayer For Robert Lindley
Can I ask you dear Lord, only if you have the time?
Our world leaders need some help, they are in quite a bind
Could you throw...

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Categories: throw down, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Math Class Hell
Did she say time numbers or prime numbers? 
I was sure it was not rhyme numbers. 
She is staring at me. Miss Johnson, math teacher.
Takes...

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Categories: throw down, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Venus Dreamer
 
Sotto Poet, first Sonnet and Constance La France, second Sonnet

Oh Cupid, luscious whiff of magic love,
when "love" comes it is a blissful feeling;
I lay...

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Categories: throw down, dream, love,
Form: Sonnet
What I Want
I want to feel love and respect
With someone special the need to connect..
I want to feel that I alone matter
That I come first and never...

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Categories: throw down, life, love, visionaryme, love,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs