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Downwards Poems - Poems about Downwards

Downwards Poems - Examples of all types of poems about downwards to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for downwards.
Premium Member Don't Move
... Don't move a muscle or dare shift your mind. We are balanced on the edge of a precipice and to reach out to one another could cause us to tip and send us all plunging downwards into t......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, care, together,
Form: Free verse



To see you
...I feel like I have stopped running I am standing still now and I am poised But why am I stopping? There is no time to be tired Things to do People to see Things to say You can't r......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, angst, anxiety, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heirs of Eternal Silence
... I wrote this poem about the young men and boys of various countries who fought in the first world war . Forever Remembered. Heirs of Eternal Silence Prismatic fragments of glass......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, betrayal, courage, remembrance day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Is A Darkness
...There is a darkness always lurking around. Concealed, but ready to pounce, swoop you downwards rapidly and keep you there. Hold you captive in a hole, in darkness. There is a darkness called d......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, dark, depression, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightmare
...Lost in time Hard to make a dime Wondering where yesterday went. Emotions spent No longer know the world I am in Is life a sin Man on the podium saying I am the way Listen to what I say Vote ......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, fate, flying, grave, hate,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member winters rage
... skiers on the snow slopes avalanche torrents downwards winters rage unleashed ......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, snow,
Form: Haiku
The Crow -Parody of The Raven-
...In the late evening, half past 8 I heard a noise from far away. It was a bird, make no mistake. I could've sworn I heard my name. Maybe I did, or maybe I had gone insane. For out in the dista......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lonesome Life of a Cell Phone User
...two cell phones ran into each other on some street friends I think world has changed though and stood side by side known yet unknown an awkward greeting then sliding into silence like an old west......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, addiction, best friend, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rejoice
...I feel a whooshing of air as my soul leaves my body and is Sent skyward to the heavens. I am afraid as I look downwards seeing my old life getting Further away and a new beginning getting clos......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Flipside
... "The Flipside" We write our hearts out we pull the catch back in slowly, they read, we think, too fast swallowed in the hollowed out hallowed heart......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, muse, poetry,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write
...[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy. The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there She’s ......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, dog, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Neptunes Daughter
...Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold They let him ......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, dog, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pop the Question
...one man’s reality ~ is but another chimpanzee mimicry Monoku quote by poet Foremost on my mind today is much the same as yesterday, but not quite! A nuanced imperceptibly has taken plac......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, allusion, introspection, universe,
Form: Free verse
Evening Bloodshed
...It was blood-red; it should have been a pretty sunset but it had a too open, too inflamed eye It should have been spectacular, yet that blood, it ran downwards, it dripped into our own open ey......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Don'T Like Heights
...Breathtaking views the brochure said. But for me it was nothing but a sheer drop, gravity's worst nightmare lipped on an edge and way below, a brutal landing of hard rock. I don't like h......Read the rest...
Categories: downwards, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

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