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Knockdown Poems - Poems about Knockdown


Damp with pain
...#Damp_with_pain These floors have drank much of my tears, see these salt spots corroding even the tar, how deep and fatal is my pain, see the blood lines tattooed in my eyes, they stem deep inside m......

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Categories: knockdown, deep, depression, grief, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
The Girl In the Park
...I was waiting at the bus stop, for the number nine to take me uptown, that’s when I saw her in the park, sitting crossed-legged on the ground. The sun reflected in her golden hair, her lips were bl......

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Categories: knockdown, poetry,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Three Old Crows
...Three old crows were standing head-to-head Conversing in the hallway between the classes Wondering who they were dissing, with dread, I knew fellow teachers they thought jacka**es, ......

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Categories: knockdown, community, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Circus Is Coming To Town
...Excitement explodes with anticipation today, Colorful flyers say the circus is coming to town With animal acts, clowns, and music so gay. Soon the big top will be going up, a holiday......

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Categories: knockdown, celebration, fun, happiness, summer,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Such Was My Luck
...Throughout my youth, up to about my fourth birthday, I was a happy, playful boy. War won, Dad was back, and from that day forth I was his to punish, his knockdown toy. Pinocchio's wish ......

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Categories: knockdown, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Sonnet



Howami Hmm Good Question
...Howami? hmm... good question, but for some unknown reason more tired than usual..., without daily twenty four hours proper rest, I feel haggard. I strongly suspect (a hunch acquired upon retu......

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Categories: knockdown, 12th grade, dream, happiness,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
This Can'T Be Dialogue
...Although my baby and I are not pugilists and we never ever brawl with our fists we have knockdown drag out fights every Friday night Roundhouses to the ego Sucker punches to the past Draw ......

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Categories: knockdown, analogy, anxiety, conflict, relationship,
Form: Dramatic Verse
When I Was Immortal
...When I was immortal, I believe I lived right maybe not healthy or safe, but right. I could stay awake for days Drink my weight in liquid gold and Roll up the next day feeling like royalty craving......

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Categories: knockdown, age, death, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
Suicide Is Not the Best Solution
...When it seems you are sinking in sorrow and it's hard to stand the pains of tomorrow. Stop following the footpath of frustration, Suicide is not the best solution. When encouraging words seem s......

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Categories: knockdown, anxiety, courage, death, depression,
Form: Didactic
Note To Self
...You may be down, but you're not done The best of you is yet to come A knockdown isn't a knockout And a knockout means a new fight To lose is to win Because it teaches you how to look within Wh......

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Categories: knockdown, emotions, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Repetition
...She lays in bed and wipes the tears From her eyes Her lips are raw and puffed up She plays her music really loudly So she can try and feel nothing. Sad and lonely She always seems so hollow and......

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Categories: knockdown, abuse, bullying, confusion, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Whole Lotta Downs
...Dip me in the pool to cool me down Sit me in the sun to make me brown Put me on a throne to give me crown Take me in a car to drive to town Lets go to the circus to see the clown Make me really sad t......

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Categories: knockdown, imagination, me, old, me,
Form: Rhyme
Driven Crazy
...Driven Crazy in 41 You were there in forty one, When Australia it called, King an country it was fun, Adventure it enthralled. On a hill in Syria, Death was to be denied, French Foreig......

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Categories: knockdown, adventuredeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
Housing Nightmare
...What too do about housing foreclosure? maybe...just rent a bulldozer, tear off the roof,knockdown some walls at least have some personal closure... *......

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Categories: knockdown, funny
Form: Free verse

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