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Downright Poems - Poems about Downright

Walking On Eggshells
...Walking On Eggshells I’m not putting up with this s### Always offended Always the one in the workforce Always playing the victim Troublemaker Just downright stubborn Treading on water ......

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Categories: downright, jobs, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do poets write what readers hear?
... Poets have multiple aims, modes, reasons to write, Which may match what readers want downright. Some poets are simply lovers of words and language. How they twist and turn, and meld on a page.......

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Categories: downright, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member THE GIFT OF ROOTS AND WINGS
... I remember a blessing we were given as first-time parents… that became our parental battle cry: Together may you give your children roots to grow and wings to fly. But having been parents and ......

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Categories: downright, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Legendary Convict
...Walked in through those gates, the legends foretold/ valley of death? Try a circus of old/ The baddest dude charged, Timber! Came the call/ He fell like a Jenga tower, five stories tall/ A gang r......

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Categories: downright, character, cool, environment, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Show Off
...Rise and shine, Know you are Divine, You get to draw the line, Let your heart and mind align, Feel your energy intertwined, Within all of your design. Love is the light you shine, ......

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Categories: downright, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
...There once was a young man from Szechwan, who thought his prick looked like a pecan. He met Bertha Butts, who was hankering for nuts, so he gave her his pecan to chew on....

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Categories: downright, crazy, funny, giggle, howl,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Love in hindsight
... you've been gone almost five years still i remember so well the harmony we were downright inseparable mostly i remember the peace we felt so I couldn't help but take a moment to wonder what ......

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Categories: downright, loss, lost, memory, pride,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member taxes '25
...(It’s that vernal, infernal, tax season. How about a tax avoidance vignette? It’s poetic—in it’s own way) Some students at a table near us in the dining hall were discussing America’s financial in......

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Categories: downright, green, growing up, money,
Form: Free verse
Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance
...Abject poverty it is said, must actually be honed, Then cultivated and even forced bred, This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea......

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Categories: downright, betrayal, community, society,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Karma
...Children are not always so innocent -- I have met some downright mean and vicious... made that way or just born? the non believer, would be shocked to know just how blossom-high and deepl......

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Categories: downright, creation, death, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Lighter Side
...I don’t like the da, da da, da dark Keep the nightlight on, please! I would rather sit in the park With the Sun always on, you see I for real really don’t like the dark Especially when evil......

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Categories: downright, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dumpster Fire
... To sell smart trash bins a man George did hire, but loss loomed large, put him in dumpster fire. He promptly fired the dumb man, became a keen garbage fan, saved his busin......

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Categories: downright, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My dog's as smart as a geek and other doggy poems
...My dog's as smart as a geek. He can bark in English, Arabic, and Greek. He’s expert in canine mathematics, can discuss dog-fight aerodynamics, and is fluent in bow-wow doublespeak. And yo......

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Categories: downright, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Goin' Granny
...Written By: D. Collins 1/23/25 When all is said and done, I do what I do good. Prevent any MF'z trying to keep us in the hood. <>...

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Categories: downright, grandmother,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member for someone
...It’s hard to meet someone serious at college. Everyone’s busy, self-centeredly grinding away at their dreams. So much so that people tell you to not even try (especially as a freshman). I was mo......

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Categories: downright, anniversary, boyfriend, celebration, humor,
Form: Free verse

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