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Downturn Poems - Poems about Downturn

When abandon runs dry
... For the Contest: Abandon Sponsor: Constance La France Written 20.05.2025 To live with abandon is to spend your soul as if the tab will never come, but it always does – by unknown When aband......

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Categories: downturn, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Armorous Blues
... Blessed by Jupiter adorned by Saturn, reckless and just a bit larger than life; For desire and a little fire we yearn; So much of the Universe left to learn cutting through time with a celest......

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Categories: downturn, emotions, feelings, space,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Zen Mode
...the milestone attained a benediction bestowed so in midst of celebrations bliss drenched soul presence recognising ephemerality pulsates in nonchalance as during a downturn watching life un......

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Categories: downturn, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hispanic Panic
...When I go outside and see the homeless, I see one thing, There are no homeless Hispanics and yet, There is a Hispanic Panic amongst those who are paranoid From the abuelitas selling taquitos to......

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Categories: downturn, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Courtney Mae Or Courting May
...Come now, Spring! You’re such a fickle young thing! On the wings of newborn feathers, your wiles up and downturn winds to sudden cold flings tripping warming skins to tremble a while… Next com......

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Categories: downturn, may,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 20th Century Dreams
...John Wayne would not entertain self-doubt or indecision jumped in again and again with full blown tunnel vision pure bravado does not stop mortality's sure advance nothing can give assurance ......

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Categories: downturn, change, death, fate, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Torn
...Her voice resonates in my mind, No other melodious voice I can find, Her smile is an infectious delight, It accompanies me from dawn to twilight, Oh! Sail back to me my beloved, For to no other ......

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Categories: downturn, emotions, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Souper Dupe
... A young Souper was feeling the burn When his poem count took a downturn First, he wrote a haiku Then a monoku too By deleting some carriage returns ......

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Categories: downturn, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Only Time To Burn
...Meg often told Josh to try to be less reckless but Josh had panache when dealing with dangerous too often being feckless since days of sixth grade their hands often intertwined Meg and Josh ......

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Categories: downturn, angst, change, conflict, loss,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Why Wallow In the Shallow
... Judging by outer appearance That too with mind interference Game of desire and aversion Instinctive ego dalliance Jaundiced eye birthing delusion Enmeshes soul in confusion Her......

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Categories: downturn, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Earth's a Paradise
...Full of wonder and imagination; beyond beautiful, Earth's a paradise. But humanity's role is in question; for there are many wrongs that don't make sense. Though food's plentiful, folks f......

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Categories: downturn, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Thinkin
... Reflecting on the joy that comes From listening to the heart, the soul The One who brings everlasting peace And a love that reaches through grief Breathing a caress across the emotions ......

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Categories: downturn, creation, heart, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Take Me Back To Yesterday
...It was just a shadow turned, some distant memory of which we yearned and who we were, just children raised and grown moving to a future unknown; like everyone who has hopes and dreams w......

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Categories: downturn, analogy, change, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Vent
...Requite is unavoidable at times unless necessary some present and won't expect anything back in return it's a reputable thing to practice if arbitrary there are people that don't and expect downtu......

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Categories: downturn, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
As the Storm Come To Pass
...Enveloped in the mayhem of covid-19 We are seating ducks in our homes Anxiously pondering about how the world post Covid- 19 would be like Would it be welcoming? Or rather vicious like a mad dog?......

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Categories: downturn, encouraging, hope,
Form: Free verse

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