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Downsides Poems - Poems about Downsides

Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......

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Categories: downsides, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Time
...3/4/25 "Time" People often rat pack Quick to have the last laugh It's a sad fact That we never could get past that Time is something we can never have back Few heed the forecast Torches p......

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Categories: downsides, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jagged
...Some thoughts sail through Others cut a jagged path Snagging on innocent brain cells Serious damage can be done Obviously invisibly Shouting for help ......

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Categories: downsides, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Have I Finally Learned This Lesson
...Sometimes the things that happen to us are God-sent. We often go into change kicking and shrieking Unable to see any benefits, focusing on possible downsides. I have had these experiences not a fe......

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Categories: downsides, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ups and Downs In Life
...Life comes with moments of sadness touched with moments of pain but it also comes with moments of joy I have loved, lived and breathe the upsides and the downsides of life I have sacrificed many......

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Categories: downsides, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Don'T Know, Don'T Care
...I swear, my parents act like they were never teens in a pandemic growing up. I was watching “Perry Mason,” an HBO show set in the 1930s. Perry gets mail out of his mailbox and I think “no GLOVES??......

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Categories: downsides, 11th grade, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You'Re Not On My Pedestal
...You're just higher then most. Your creativity and intelligence set you apart, from others met coast to coast. We are much alike in heart and soul, Does it really matter if we don't like to bowl? ......

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Categories: downsides, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'present'
..."Present!" It's a lackluster answer (1) to simple life question, "Hi! How is it going Mom? You feel OK?" She was lonely for sure, saw no chance of a rescue, She fought for her kids, though art ......

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Categories: downsides, journey, life, mentor, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Judy
...Judy, Tell me how do you sleep at night Were you at times baffled When dreams seemed shattered In dreams remained a miracle Were you at times like her? Changes like season Today I'm motivated,......

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Categories: downsides, blue, dedication, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April Love
...We began our late winter do-over with a dirty ceramic bowl during a too-much snowstorm. Well, no, obviously that's not where this rebirth story begins but neither is a cream-colored and clea......

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Categories: downsides, april, caregiving, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Letter To the Hopeless: Here Is the Essence of Living
... Sometimes, I feel to me life is such a strange sphere It could be cruel, hard and tight, ......

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Categories: downsides, adventure, courage, dedication, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member To Dumb To Lay Down
...Down, so many things forced down, they force you look down, lie down, even music tracks “comma, down, doobee down.” The tracks the coyote left in the snow drew my eyes down, the cat is missi......

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Categories: downsides, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Apathy
...You know that feeling? That empty existence, That lack of emotion, It doesn't make much sense.. It's lonely and hollow, And only tears follow... A rut that you're stuck in, A hole that y......

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Categories: downsides, absence, conflict, lost, pain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member More Beautiful With Age - Question Mark
...More Beautiful With Age? Do men grow more beautiful ageing? It may not be fair but seems true, Some process that’s secretly working To bring a man’s heart into view. And women seem op......

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Categories: downsides, age,
Form: Rhyme
Delirium
...Take a look inside & you will surely find The knowledge they hide From us in order to preside The rules have been applied & now we're left to divide Water full of fluoride Only making us......

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Categories: downsides, angst, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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