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Best What Goes Up Must Come Down Poems

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What Goes Up Must Come Down
The grass is green and the sky is blue
The sun is hot and the rain wets you
As the sun rises the day is new
This we're...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, life,
Form: Rhyme



What Goes Up, Must Come Down Contest
What Goes Up, Must Come Down
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey

~Different beliefs can be a blessing~

He was born on a chilly Saturday afternoon, sweet boy with lots of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what goes up must come down, angel, birth, cancer, grandchild,
Form: Couplet
What Goes Up Must Come Down
Fly
high
above
Consequence.
Make your great escape
on a psychedelic carpet
through humdrum clouds of mundane life,
to a state of "I don't give a damn" euphoria.
Throw caution to the wind...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, addiction,
Form: Fibonacci
What Goes Up, Must Come Down
Beautiful Lake Erie bound by New York 
Romantic honeymoon, bottle and cork 
It went up with Viagra 
spilled unlike Niagara 
racing fast to arrive before...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what goes up must come down, race,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Better Days
The sun will break again for you, my friend
From out of darkness into light, you’ll tread
Your grief, it will subside and may soon end
And I’ll...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, friendship, loss, recovery from,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Wheel Has Come Full Circle
What goes up must come down. 
No colors can define who you are. 
You may own a cart or limousine. 
We'll still reach the end...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, faith, god, imagery, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Coastal Sunset --- Haiku
coastal sunset -
dropping into the sea also
the juggler's ball



Written February 23rd, 2016
For the What Goes Up, Must Come Down Contest hosted by Catie Lindsey...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, beach, devotion, image, imagination,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member What Goes Up
What goes up must come down, but what Blair,
a disgusting dude, threw in the air
was not too appealing.
What stuck to the ceiling -
not to come...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Cliche Confusion
They say "money makes the world go round" I really don't understand 
I thought it was a magnetic field not something made by man 

They...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, funnyheart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Kite - For Contest
The Kite


It was great fun at the Jersey Shore
     flying our kite up high and away.
It is said, 'what goes up,...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, beach, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member For You My Brothers and Sisters With Love
love is vital
 if you find it fight for it
 we give up too quickly on our partners
 
we need to be in touch with...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, love, drug,
Form: Narrative
Behind the Smile
You see her smile, and she seems alright.
But what you don’t see is that she is crying inside
You think if she is sad, why doesn't...

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Categories: what goes up must come down, life, love, sad, song-teen,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member We Chased a Star Around the Moon
He waits for me in my dreams each night
I hear his soft neigh when he catches sight
of me. I am only a tiny little slip...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what goes up must come down, fantasy, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of Lust
Ready my heart for the rise of it all
Embrace the echoes as everyone falls
Settle the pettiness poisoning you
Take a brave leap into the darkness you...

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© Laura Dee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what goes up must come down, angst, appreciation, crazy, creation,
Form: Lyric
Circus Clowns
After spending a night on the town
and drinking ale - a hearty dark brown,
we were feeling sooo frisky,
tried moves a bit too risky,
quickly learned: What...

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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what goes up must come down, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs