Best Thumbs Down Poems

Jean-Leon Gerome’s Pollice Verso pleases my artful eye
As a gladiator boldly stands thus alone
With foot upon a defeated soul
He awaits the Roman crowd’s reply
The great...

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The End

Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.

The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.

What once meant everything,
Really...

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Nero’s citizens enjoyed games of death
People and beasts for their sadistic fun
Animals and slaves drawing their last breath
Death in the arena, no place to run.

Gladiator...

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Another wave of voter vexation
is swamping the shutdown nation

To the left, 
the windpipes are hissing
To the right,
the windbags are dissing

And all of the kitchen cabinet...

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They kept telling her to leave!
But her heart didn't hear their
loud thumping voices.

Like an idiot staying up all night,
this grandmother,quite old,
Physically worn out, decided it
was...

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Written by Gail DeBole on July 1, 2014
Updated on July 4, 2014


Fred Sr. doesn't like most things that start with e-.
Thumbs down to e-banking, e-books,...

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Guided by the light of the laptop
My Facebook friends are not real
Instagram your dinner and some pictures of the dog
don’t forget to re-tweet CM Punk
Likes...

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Enigmatic smile
Posted on social web sites
Thumbs up or thumbs down?...

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The Colluseum
Has filled with people again,
Glowing softly by torch-light.
Lamps are lit, twinkling
Like stars in the seats above.
Heavy fumes of olive oil
Waft up on the breeze.
No...

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To Be God Is Not Easy

 Millions prayers,
 Millions wishes and
 Countless lives are
 Responsibilities of Mine.

       Justifying all...

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On sand soaked with blood,
two young men are breathing hard.
The taller one has armor,
a sword and a net.
His opponent has only
an arm guard and a...

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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...

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Thumbs hold first-string
position in the hand.
They send messages
everyone understands.

Thumbs up say,
“You did it.
Go get it!”

Thumbs down say,
“You blew it.
You’ll regret it!”

Thumbs out signal,
“Get ‘outta’ here,
please...

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Limericks crochetés: What if what he warns’s true sin?

Is he the wrong man said the right thing
Though it’ll be wrong to agree with him
 ...

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There one very peculiar foodstuff
that puts a sour crook in my mouth
It’s that stringy don’t-give-me-any-of,
two thumbs down for the sauerkraut
Just the awful smell of it...

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