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Downplays Poems - Poems about Downplays
almost showed off
...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives) I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday). I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
downplays,
home, humor, student, travel,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle Zone
...There are unending fired shots which keeps one on their toes to always push to be great. Bullets emanates from varied firearms; where some targets are locked in, some aimed at and others to......
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Fred Elorm Hornuvo
Categories:
downplays,
books, confidence, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Bypassing Intimacy
...a buffer between the you and the me the constant mediator chaperoning criticizing with its glare and pursed lips negating the realm of possibilities as it downplays the fragranced essence of ......
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©
Line Gauthier
Categories:
downplays,
conflict, confusion, loneliness, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Without Knowing Your Gender
...Without knowing your gender..., (nevertheless ex post facto still flattered genuine heartfelt kinship mattered, hence the reasonable rhyme across the webbed wide world I subsequently scatter......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
downplays,
adventure, age, boy, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Success
...Success Short notice, but nevertheless focused. Discouraged from all parts that reinvented me Threw it away due to the detrimental pain and torture of the brain. Here I was faced with a challe......
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©
Coree Bree
Categories:
downplays,
growth, journey, success,
Form:
Free verse
Peaceful Protestors
...A large building burns, black-clad thugs dance around it, reporter stands in front of flames claims they are ‘peaceful’ protestors. A courthouse surrounded, lasers used to blind officers, fir......
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©
David Welch
Categories:
downplays,
anger, evil, how i
Form:
Free verse
Framing Godless Humble Ideology
...Atheistic beneficent credo, dogmatically evokes fundamental gnostic humanistic invocations, joyously kickstarting literary métier, native oeuvre pulsating quintessentially, rudimentary schema......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
downplays,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
The Bigamist
...The Bigamist I don't know what to call you I can't conceive this pain I'm alone in this nightmare that use to be my dream Why would you do this Why would you triangulate me in this sick game......
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©
Toni Ann Wekstein
Categories:
downplays,
betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Thank You For the Butchery
...I stand still here, as I stood there when your lexis ripped me bare. Thank you for the butchery. I am now used to your tirade barrage that disparage me like stale garbage. Thank you for the but......
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©
Allan Kazembe
Categories:
downplays,
pain,
Form:
Rhyme