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Downplaying Poems - Poems about Downplaying

Nobody

...“Who is it about?”
	You. It’s always been you. For months. Worth more than gold, weighing less than mud are my thoughts. Months of downplaying, cast aside, thrown to the pigs. You. It always came ba...
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Categories: downplaying, crush, cute love, heartbreak,
Form: Prose Poetry

A Roadside Flowering Tree

...“The earth laughs in flowers.”
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spring has just taken a leap
Blushing sun is on hot trail
Teases trees with playful smile.
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Categories: downplaying, flower,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGuiltiness

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Guilt consumes one's mind and leads to buying into someone else's
mind games played comparable to chess power and control.

Promises one never makes yet stand accused Clasp, accept
trust that t...
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Categories: downplaying, conflict, confusion, emotions, family,
Form: Free verse

Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

...Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry

Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though...
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Categories: downplaying, cry, environment, fire, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres

...Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...
where Lassie free to run across petco junction 

All across the webbed
wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor...
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Categories: downplaying, adventure, appreciation, april, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Memory Laws In The US

...I was reading on the so called memory laws or a state-approved interpretation of history. There have been states (Idaho, Oklahoma, Virginia etc.) to name a few, that have passed their own type of mem...
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Categories: downplaying, america, gender, race, racism,
Form: Prose

Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman Told To Ye

...While on the topic 
of blood kith and kin,
I relate another 
fabricated poem about 
blimey bloke of a fisherman. 

Trawl tale of a fictitious seaman told to ye...

Courtesy webbed whirled wid...
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Categories: downplaying, 8th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

What Happened To the Giants, Part I

...You may have heard folks speak about giants,
it certain circles that some call ‘plain nuts!’
among cryptozoological types
they’re speculated upon rather much.

And every few months on the intern...
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Categories: downplaying, conflict, history, myth, people,
Form: Epic

Bar None No Shortage of Soap Shampoo, Nor Detergent

...Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent

Courtesy food pantries
Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's,
Our Daily Bread,
the missus and yours truly (her spouse)
well stocked with good n plen...
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Categories: downplaying, adventure, appreciation, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOrson Welles and the Martians

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Orson Welles and company put on a show
which was broadcast in 1939 over CBS radio.
It was based on a book written years before
by H. G. Wells whom many readers would adore.
Martian inva...
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Categories: downplaying, history,
Form: Rhyme

A Moment In Time

...By Fatima Abdul Aleem

The blossoming buds fill my eyes with delight,
As the aroma seeps through the air,
Showcasing a picturesque scene depleted of fright,
A life of beauty and a day so rare,
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Categories: downplaying, appreciation, creation, day, emotions,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberPositive Political Problems

...My fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,

Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science path...
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Categories: downplaying, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues

...tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with pri...
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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues

...(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive) 
finds me bleary eyed stupefied 
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble 
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Verizon Router Won'T Connect To Internet Blues

...Verizon router won't connect to internet blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
telecommunications gone south).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gott...
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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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