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Downer Poems - Poems about Downer
Downer Poems - Examples of all types of poems about downer to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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She has Calamities and Disasters
...Everything in her world is a calamity or disaster. A professional downer, she focuses on worse scenarios. I might have cancer, she tells me. Because she fell down and her knee bled. My mother m......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downer,
women,
Form:
Free verse
Hay Wastes His Life
...Hay the frog was pondering with strife How would he justify living his life? Would he be remembered even by his wife? His heart felt as heavy as a butter knife. Hay would not hop, croak or sing......
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©
Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downer,
Form:
Rhyme
Merry Halloween
...Merry Halloween Shelly McQueen sang. Merry Halloween! Loud, with a bang. That is Christmas the naysayer said. He is always a downer; his name is Fred. Merry Halloween! Shelly McQueen sang out. ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downer,
halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Sun-Downer Blues
...The sun she's goin' down, it's sinkin' so low, I can feel that evening breeze start to blow. Time for day's bright colors to wane and fade, Bending all hues to black and blue in shade. Sundown,......
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John Anderson
Categories:
downer,
blue, song,
Form:
Rhyme
No Flies On Me
...today a bluebottle blushed ~ when i smashed its face with a sweeping brush was a great buzz and quite some rush ~ now i’m on a downer cleaning mush moral of the story’s do not crush ~ best sp......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
downer,
crush, insect, truth,
Form:
Monoku
Refocusing Life's Lens
...A constant buzz of busyness Continually swarming us Easy to get dragged down Caught up in the fuss While in the moment All you can say is c’mon Poked like a voodoo doll The pain keeps pilin......
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Mike Oleary
Categories:
downer,
appreciation, inspiration, perspective, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Unattainable Forgotten Heart
...When you felt yourself get close You slammed your door shut You didn't wanna take that chance - 'cause you thought you'd get cut What I had done up until that point seemed never to be enough You ......
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Holly Knoles
Categories:
downer,
allusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Passion
...Love with all my heart Just before dawn Respect in my soul My mind is ignited Threatening play Reckless rivalry for profit and power Be brave and try new things Just chalk it u......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
downer,
appreciation, devotion, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Tomorrow Is Another Day
...Burdens may be heavy and problems crop up new before you give up something you should do Sit down, look around, sigh and pray get up, one foot forward, do one thing and it's through Don't wor......
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Fritz Purdum
Categories:
downer,
encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Dismal Is As Dismal Does
...Dismal is as dismal does And gloomy follows close Always a downer, etwas*, Seeking next a bigger dose. Dismal is as dismal does Heaping sorrow upon it How utterly sad it was ‘Twi......
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©
L Milton Hankins
Categories:
downer,
perspective, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Larry, Moe and Curly
...Helter-skelter, upper-downer, Bigger smaller, richer poorer Bitter sweeter, kinder meaner Sifter opener, thicker thinner. Meek or dumb, pinky and thumb Top or bottom, height and fathom. Head......
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©
Clifford Villalon
Categories:
downer,
hilarious,
Form:
Alliteration
Selective Listening
...Listen to your heart and look away from the cynical Keep looking for a downer And you will find what lies beneath the pain that birth's your tears Then it becomes even harder to look up More lik......
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Roses Roses
Categories:
downer,
birth, heart, ocean, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Don'T Watch the Six O'Clock News
...Do not watch the six o'clock news If you want to live a carefree life It'll bring you down, beat the crap outta ya It's like being stabbed with a knife Just hearing about all the stuff ......
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©
Jack Ellison
Categories:
downer,
myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Dour Debbie Downer
...Dour Debbie Downer with a daily dose of doom She complains about her father with a sense of gloom He was a bully, he wishes I was dead she said. Her mother was worse; she is glad that she is dead.......
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©
Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downer,
women,
Form:
Rhyme
Today I Was Speechless
...The child is perpetually angry Because he is incredibly sad He is not a delight to his teacher Enjoys stirring things up Often keeps his classmates on edge His teacher can only take so much; th......
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©
Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
downer,
satire,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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