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Best Tie Down Poems

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


Premium Member Lifes Simplicity Maintained
You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...

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Categories: tie down, career, character, cheer up,
Form: Epic



Busybee Me
(enjoy the puns) 

I happen to be a busy bee
always racing with time
since time how it flies for busy bees
Ah wish I could just lasso...

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Categories: tie down, time,
Form: Blank verse
The Kite
Am I the only one to think
that a kite is such a sad thing?

Flimsy...frail...
never really free,
forever tied to a string

Yes, it can soar indeed,
so high,...

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Categories: tie down, allegory, life, me, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Those Aussies
Often wondered bout people down under
Do they have to stand on their heads?
Do they have to tie down all their possessions?
Is flying off into space...

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Categories: tie down, humorous, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Poly-Amorous Man
(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)        

What makes me feel loved...

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Categories: tie down, love, integrity,
Form: Rhyme



The Trainman
On the eastern grade of the switcher yard, down at Medicine Hat 
There’s a tendency for cars to roll toward the Dunmore hill 
Back when...

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Categories: tie down, hello, hero, hilarious, holiday,
Form: Ballad
Wife and Her New Computer
Wife and Her New Computer

How has she been doing so far?
Becoming a computer rising star;
Now with her we better not mess;
God with computer, her did...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tie down, allegory, analogy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Down To the Sea
He left this morning after tea and time with me.
before the early morning dawn and between sleepy yawns.

He has done this all his life and...

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Categories: tie down, adventure, life, nature, people,
Form: Free verse
Born In the Thermals
What is born in the thermals of a barren land
A spiral of destruction sublime

(I feel its power seeping into the ground)

Across the seas, it comes...

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Categories: tie down, adventure, allegory, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
Summer Storms
A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a...

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Categories: tie down, city, summer,
Form: Blank verse
Foreign On Wind and Word
Foreign On Wind And Word 

Tie down words in yesterday’s dilemmas, gondola soft
Send them off on feathers, light as weathers messengers 
What are words but...

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Categories: tie down, adventure, children, education, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Poem For the Deceased
“From dust to dust”, they say
But that only involves the corporeal body
And the stuff we’ve collected over the years
Like books and clothes and houses and...

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© Kj Hooten  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tie down, death, love,
Form: Narrative
Floating Sentries
Floating Sentries

Tie down words gondola soft
Pure is the paper, ink is black, stamped with approval
Dilemma sent, place letters in the box
Feather eloquent

Send them off with...

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Categories: tie down, education, identity, image, snow,
Form: Free verse
Rodriguez the Tinpot Dictator
RODRIGUEZ THE TINPOT DICTATOR

“Hello, my name is Rodriguez the tinpot dictator of South American country A. I came to power and made everyone a communist...

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Categories: tie down, america, character, corruption, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Not As Pretty As She Seems
Just about to thaw
Then the numbness blankets me
I thought we finally hit our stride
But it’s me who can’t seem to see

I’m the plague
The infection that...

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Categories: tie down, addiction, allusion, angst, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

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