Long Thumbs down Poems

run for fun
run as a rookie
  rookie plays hooky
  rookie seeks fame
fame is a game
fame can hurt 
  hurt like dirt
  hurt your skills
skills and drills
skills to run  
 ...

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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...

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Did you ever get a story in your head
A line or two just lying in your bed
You’d like to sleep but you don’t instead
You write your story - hope that it gets read
Don’t ask for...

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This life has many different phases and faces
As you navigate the intricate phases and faces of life,
And life gets off the hook,
And decides to downgrade you, upgrade yourself and your life with Jesus
When life gives...

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The End

Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.

The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.

What once meant everything,
Really means nothing now.

I still see and sense things mortal,
But the...

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The Colluseum
Has filled with people again,
Glowing softly by torch-light.
Lamps are lit, twinkling
Like stars in the seats above.
Heavy fumes of olive oil
Waft up on the breeze.
No longer do the petals
Hold their fragrant perfume
Of the day's cascade,
But...

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Another wave of voter vexation
is swamping the shutdown nation

To the left, 
the windpipes are hissing
To the right,
the windbags are dissing

And all of the kitchen cabinet aprons
got their middle fingers
pointing up     deaf...

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On sand soaked with blood,
two young men are breathing hard.
The taller one has armor,
a sword and a net.
His opponent has only
an arm guard and a dagger, 
but no encumbrance.
Thus, moving quicker, this man
avoids the constant...

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As this mad, mad world turns on a bedeviled tilt,
empirical evidence suggest
compassionate global warming regret 
has gotten the cold shoulder
Scoffers with frostbitten hearts
buoy iceberg lies 
Titanic size
Alternate spin facts
submerge the meltdown truth
Letting only half-life decay...

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In a nation of "point the finger"'
she pondered joining the crowd.
As in the famed Roman Coliseum
she imagined herself in full glory.
Giving a glorious "thumbs down!"

After all, she told her arrogant 
herself, 
as she put a...

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As the movie starts, they cut out the heart,                          ...

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SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY

cool wind and red souls —
the passion-keepers
of the Superbowl

couples under warm blankets
converse about commercials
thumbs up and thumbs down

inside company pokes holes
into the crackling wood
of Southern hospitality

though none can claim
this as their birthplace
we cover North,...

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I had the strangest dream the other night.
Thinking I could help my city's plight.
I wanted to donate something they could use,
So I offered them a deal they couldn't refuse!

I dreamed I inherited an enormous amount...

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The economy was booming, best for years
As for unemployment then: he had it beat
Feel-good factor lifted spirits dried our tears
Voted ‘gainst him cos I didn’t like his tweets

Yes he made the border strong secured the...

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~Murder is Not Private Matter~


If a newborn born can be killed,
Then why not you or me?
What gives you or me the right to
end a life of a full grown baby?

You and I have a chance...

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Hey......hey
Thumbs up 
Thumbs down 
Like and share 
Pass it all around 
Gone viral, gone viral, gone viral
Hey......hey
Death
How many views?
Rape
How many views?
Gone viral, gone viral, gone viral 
Hey.....hey
Thumbs up 
Thumbs down 
Smiley face 
Now has a...

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They kept telling her to leave!
But her heart didn't hear their
loud thumping voices.

Like an idiot staying up all night,
this grandmother,quite old,
Physically worn out, decided it
was time to fold.

After all, few years had she left!
She put...

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Shoeless – one is meaningless without the other pair of shoes
I understand myself –thumbs up to self
There’s pros and cons…
Emotions…things I can’t let go
Relax please….I want to be with you forever it seems…
I am mending...

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To Be God Is Not Easy

 Millions prayers,
 Millions wishes and
 Countless lives are
 Responsibilities of Mine.

       Justifying all these
       I have to...

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Written by Gail DeBole on July 1, 2014
Updated on July 4, 2014


Fred Sr. doesn't like most things that start with e-.
Thumbs down to e-banking, e-books, and e-asy.
He's known to hollar, “I hate all this e-stuff!”
E-learning,...

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My Agreeable Friend

By Elton Camp

When I nod my head, he nods his too
To show that is the best for me to do

Then if I should give my head a shake
The very same action is what...

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Limericks crochetés: What if what he warns’s true sin?

Is he the wrong man said the right thing
Though it’ll be wrong to agree with him
   Who know darn well we mean
   Such...

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Do not want to foresee;
the unknown me. On the tip
of tongue a stunted silence with singularity

sits. Me and my lantern burn
in dark. Thumbs down: the compact
seeking in failed state alters the future generation.

A reverse pain...

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There one very peculiar foodstuff
that puts a sour crook in my mouth
It’s that stringy don’t-give-me-any-of,
two thumbs down for the sauerkraut
Just the awful smell of it makes me sick,
has me running out of the house so...

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Nero’s citizens enjoyed games of death
People and beasts for their sadistic fun
Animals and slaves drawing their last breath
Death in the arena, no place to run.

Gladiator fights were the ultimate
Hero worshipped champions of the gore
A sword...

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