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Downey Poems - Poems about Downey

Premium Member Frigid
...Cold wins blow across My weary bones Feathered icicles Hanging high above home Downey woodpecker Eating a suet mix Nature’s inadequacy For a protein fix Cats watch behind Glass doors Pha......

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Categories: downey, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Times with Dad
...I went with Dad, just us two, to the hardware store. We got replacement tubes for the TV, Sometimes, filters for the heater. He bought me Necco wafers - all different colors - priceless coins......

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Categories: downey, dad, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Second
...I know you've heard the story. I think everybody has. About the Downey boy who won second place In everything that was. In that Southern California city, Downey was its name, In every city-wi......

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Categories: downey, childhood, sports,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Hearts Game - in the Style of Edward Lear's Jumblies
...I Dave looks at his email. There he sees An invitation from Clark. It looks like today, we’ll all have a game, And, hopefully, this week won’t be the same, And to victory he’ll embark. Wh......

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Categories: downey, fun, games, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Copyright Space IdeasCollaborations
... My upcoming political poetry is like. my "prolovue" story in the way that it is themed by coincidebtally famous bears. The Theme is "I Don't Care Bears"/Signs of the Times Series. Examp......

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Categories: downey, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tales From the Hollow
...In a windswept vale the tree had spread its branches Its shale like trunk defined by weather had many wounds One in particular had hollowed inside this stanchion Braced against pervading skies and......

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Categories: downey, destiny, earth, fate, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Barreling Out of Covid-19
...It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. — Robert Downey, Jr. B......

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Categories: downey, angst,
Form: Monoku
The Perambulator
...It squeaked as it slowly rolled out the door Trundled out the rusty gate Over the sunken wooden bridge and onto the sandy sidewalk. The daily trudge had begun. Nestled and nurtured within wer......

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Categories: downey, childhood,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1
... "Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1" “Tell me about the Valley of the Kings”, her lips moved speaking to someone, sitting somewhere on the other side of the......

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Categories: downey, adventure, dream, mythology, romance,
Form: Free verse
Tasteless T Shirts
...In response to an Internet company and its plans to market T shirts featuring an inhumane human being. Come gather round people, come gather round more Come buy your T shirt, with its tale of the......

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Categories: downey, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Long Live the Ladies, Ole
...Someone mentioned to me quite recently They noticed 90% of the comments I receive For my poems here on the Soup are from the ladies Must be damn well doing something right!!! Now ......

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Categories: downey, humorous, women,
Form: Narrative
The Downey Pillow
...Pillow time , Oh pillow time.. Don't waste your night-time dreams.. Pillow time, Oh pillow time.. When we both lay together.. Pillow time,Oh pillow time.. That ecstasy and pleasur......

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Categories: downey, happiness, time,
Form: Blank verse
Pillow Talk
...YOU ARE MINE... AND I AM YOURS... TOGETHER WE WILL FLY... ACROSS THE CRYSTAL SKY.... OUR LOVE WILL TRAVEL... THROUGH THE HEAVENS..... OUR HEART'S WILL MELT AND FALL ASLEEP....... . UPON YOUR DO......

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Categories: downey, love,
Form: Blank verse
Mourning Dove In Fine Array
...Mourning dove perched with your black and white collar. Black eyes, ebony, slender beak accent your dull grey sheen on downey feathers. Dressed perfectly by the creator for summer's heat or winter'......

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Categories: downey, faith, inspirational
Form: Lyric
People In My Business
...A many a people in my business, many a people indeed, many haters hiding in the trenches and they dont even know me, they wasn't around for my sickness, wasn't around for the struggle, they wasn't......

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Categories: downey, life, people, people,
Form: Free verse

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