Short Bottom Up Poems

head down...peck the ground...
  
  tail...bottom up...spear a fish...

    duck-duck...Rob 'n Duck...

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   If you’re down on your luck
     just picture the duck

   In order to sup
     he goes bottom-up


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Top is above the bottom up is never down circle in. a square?



4/30/21
written words by James Edward Lee Sr ©...

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I have always wanted to see the world 
From the bottom up
So when I die 
don't cry
Throw my ashes down the toilet
And flush with vigor
while shaking the handle
here is  looking up at you...

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Lost in a dismal forest
Sitting on a bench
Sits a dissipating girl
A confusing wench
The two disappear
Dissolving from bottom up
Bringing a great fear

Russell Sivey

Form Seguidilla...

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An elephant found it fantastic
To swing from a tree on elastic.
It suddenly snapped
Thus leaving him trapped
Tusks down, bottom up oh how drastic!

10.01.23

Bite Size Contest No59 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Addiction
That is 
A false sense of security
Time to Give up
Let yourself down
Never 
Step up to the plate
Put forth effort
To find a cure
Before your time is up
Turn around

(Now read from the bottom up)
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There was a king of Plugglup
                                   His queen was not so grown-up
                                               She in a hurry
                                          Botched up the curry
                               And showed her broiled bottom up....

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This poem is really written by the student VK/11 yrs. Read top down and then bottom up

Death destruction and despair
Destroying
Families and friends
Vanquish hope
Never
Say I love you
Always
Be sad
Do not
Be free
Hopelessness and poverty
Take over
The world
You will rule
Nothing
Dissipate the word
Happiness...

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Being happy is found deep within ourselves...
It can't be bought or found on a empty shelve...
Nor can it be copied or stolen from another smile...
It has to be built from the bottom up with a loving style...
When it comes around hold it tight with respect and care...
It can easily be swiped away from a life not fair...



inspired by P.D....

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I have unearthed perhaps the first reversal poem
from the words of Jesus.

Truly I tell you 
in the age to come
To receive eternal life
The first
shall be
The last
For my sake
and
For the sake of the good news

Now read from the bottom up

Mark 10.29-31...

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I am fine.

Dismiss the rumors that proclaim

I am falling apart.

Please know,

unfounded, are these assertions.

I shout my echoed joy;

To demonstrate that I am,

well.

I am not

pleading for help.

Hear me now,

regard it as untrue.

This glowing smile I wear–

the reality.

It is not

but a mere facade.

I tell you–

I am fine.

(now read bottom-up)...

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Sammy fell asleep in the girls’ room again.
They are four, six and seven so that’s on him.
My giggling husband and I casually tiptoed in 
He had toys from his bottom up to his chin.

He does not seem to mind, said my husband Joe
He was right, this dog had been in worse places of woe.
I took a photo, for I knew that Sammy would not care or know.
Post it on social media? Or would that be low?...

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I know just how you feel
I empathise
saying
it was like that for me
so it is wrong to claim
it's beyond comprehension
and
personal to the survivor
the experience is mine alone
really
how can you know how I feel?

Now read from the bottom up.

It remains so disappointing that the well established 'Reverse' form of poetry remains absent from the available forms. How about a competition to promote this?...

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I am utterly useless and without hope.
And no one will ever tell me that
I should never quit trying. 
And now I finally understand that 
This is what fate has in store for me,
I am worth nothing at all.
And it would be complete nonsense to think that
Somebody would be there to give me courage
when I want to give up on myself,
I know that
I will fail miserably and be looked down by others forever.
Unless I turn everything around
(now read from bottom up)...

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It is now a crime:

To say ‘i love you’
To show affection
To smile
When within 2m of another human
And it seems absurd - 
Before, people had forgotten
The world is a scary place
And I am in no position to believe that
Courage Remains
Because when I stare into faces across the path
It seems all hope is lost.
It is not okay to say
True happiness can be obtained
Because no matter what,
Such a Pandemic is truly a horrible thing?

(now read from the bottom up)...

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Early Summer

Birds awake with the dawn
Their twitters break the last defending line of spring

 Air becomes light
Like a vegetable soup that I can bottom up at once

The mist and rain no longer tangle with my eyes
The deepest blue in the sky appears

When all other colors fade
A new one is riding high on the hill

It's the greenness of life
A burst of beauty after a long hibernating

They're bustling in the same direction
With the dream of the earth, a pilgrimage...

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To your opinion 
         he seems fair and kind,
actually he has long 
         made up his mind;

he tells you that 
         he's a consensus guy,
autocratic traits 
         he just doesn't buy;

and he's all for candid 
        consultation,
for real bottom-up 
        communication

for the good 
        of the organization,
but then only under 
        one condition:

you subject all matters 
        to discussion,
never mess around with 
        his decision!...

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Laying in fingers across the horizon
Waiting for an unsuspecting tree or rock to drift up
Within reach
Tranquil, imitating sleep
Believing in nothing but itself
It curls around all ascending matter
Leaf, twig, trunk, 
Rock, stone, pebble
And bits of earth
Moisture trickles and joins the haze
Scrutiny of mortals float through the mass
Eyes wide, witness to the earth suspended
They begin reading
From the bottom up
Longing to turn the page
On the journey labeled with their name...

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This is reverse poetry. A category that really should be in the Poetry Soup list of forms as it is increasingly used to significant effect. Here is a link to a challenging and inspirational example: https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/
And my brief contribution to the genre.

To make it through the winter
I'll feel safe from Covid-19
By keeping a safe distance
Responding to you my friends
I will not feel alone.

Now read from the bottom up...

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