Short Downbeat Poems

Short Downbeat Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Downbeat by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Downbeat by length and keyword.


Unsmart Metre

I’ll apologise here at the start
For this verse won’t appeal to your heart.
So banal, it’s a shame
But I’ll shoulder the blame
’Cos it's not rude, nor funny, nor smart!
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Downbeat

~ downbeat ~

   cold feet
   seek heat

   they meet
   hot seat
 
   no treat
   they tweet
 
   these feet
   mincemeat

   we're beat
   they bleat

   complete
   defeat

   drumbeat
   downbeat
Form: Footle

Premium Member Rhythms of Life

Upbeat or downbeat Yet all in a heartbeat Joy or sorrow, today or tomorrow Happy or sad, good or bad Harmony or strife All rhythms of life ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bite Size Poem #35 Poetry Contest Honorable Mention
Form: Rhyme

Upbeat Downbeat

I
God still reigns
What pains?
Count it gain
I won't complain
Jesus took ALL
I stand tall

II
Yes, people plot
What (have) they got?
Love, try forgiveness
Oft a long process
But no other way
Wars cannot stay
They start in hearts
Stop shooting (eye) darts
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Blue Door

the smooth jazz café
dark roast and espresso shot
three sugar one cream

served in a dark cup
coffee bean image table
background bach blues band

comfy chill out sounds
smooth relax bossa nova
viola snare drums

cello string upbeat
piano caffeine downbeat
calm sax easy street


stan sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Five Finger Death Punch

Treading along the avenues of iniquity
The downbeat of mollifying choruses alleviate my ears
Ambivalent logic scours my cerebellum
A frown composed of disdain surfaces
Whilst I seek a hero amongst such strange clouds
I covet to taste of the superlative pleasures ‘tis Mother Earth
Though I am left to contemplate when next my happenings
Form: Verse

The ties of friendship

The ties of friendship
Life without friends is incomplete.
An important ingredient for the recipe of life.
They make life beautiful and downbeat.
Gives a boost of excitement and thrill for the journey of life.

You treasure your friends as a gift,
Love and honesty are what you give.
We turn to them when our soul needs a lift.
Friends make life a better place to live.
© Judith Ao  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Funny Thing, Perception

A funny thing, perception
Up the hill towards twenty-one
The dawdling clock seems never to run
Only its movement belies deception

After twenty-five, an odd exchange
No pace of a sluggish plodder
The downbeat of the tread is hotter
Daunting milestones within range

Now, the fleeting measure races
Seasons trade with reckless flurry
The ticking gallop leaves me blurry
To arrest this sprint, my mind chases
Form: Quatrain

Fruit of the Pen

My underwear is Fruit of the Loom
You're welcome for that mental sight
Anyway, I thought that seemed poetic
To me then, fruit of the pen seems right

What fruit juice then, spurts from my pen
You might just hesitate to think
Juice that could be sweet or downbeat
That flies but then falls in the sink

But whether my dribble is a scribble
Or a comparative master piece
Most of the time I find a rhyme
And wonder if wonders never cease!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Fiasco

Fiasco

Burnt down, fatigued, no feelings left, 
So devastated, world means no heft
I am not a phoenix to rise from ashes
Soul does not let receive new lashes.

I am plagued with tortures of ill fate 
Downbeat and broken, it is time to rate
My noble deeds and even wicked
My Lord, I beg, don’t be too strict!

Would love to live a century more,
But locked for me the main door
I knocked at it ten thousand times
Then I came back with all that grime.
Form: Couplet

The Best of Jazz

He hit the downbeat, found the blues,
Not to mention having no clues.
The jazz man could improvise and drag,
'Bad Penny Blues' an infamous rag. 

Slurring between riffs with such ease,
Trumpet proud he stood out from the sleaze.
Vamp chords repeated for our delight,
dissonance of students in bars each night. 

Jazz club hero Humph always will be,
Jam sessions when all tried to follow thee. 
And though no fun for your vetting,
His music alone was knicker-wetting!
Form: Rhyme

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