Short Downcast Poems

Bonansea's brace
Italy waits twenty years-
Matildas downcast...

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somber skies
like downcast eyes
your tears
overflow
my cupped 
hands...

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downcast moonless night 
bewitched firefly flitting through 
victim moaning sea

3/16/2020...

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a downcast face
stares at the curlicues
forming symbols
he loves me petals
grow upon the flower...

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Power of the eyes
Sucking you in the pupils
Reflection downcast

Russell Sivey...

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Why am I sad
Saddy-sad-sad
Saddy-sad, saddy-sad
Saddy-sad-sad.

Why is life bad
Maddy-sad-bad
Maddy-sad, maddy-sad
Maddy-sad-bad....

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Wisdom

God’s wisdom ablaze 
shining amidst the darkness
of sin and meanness
alleviate and gives comfort
to the lonesome and downcast...

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I always turn to every
Energy of inspiration  
When I am downcast 
Or in need 
Of invigoration fast
Classy and sapient answers 
Crowd my brain...

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i hear the pulse
this somber day
beat across the sky
its downcast eyes
dropping tears
against my weary soul
within its lies
a sunrise
unseen
through sullen eyes...

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Head downcast, left out
No sign of happiness there
Depressed, disheartened
Sadness reigns within his mind
Hurt man, a destroyed ego

Russell Sivey...

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An Outburst From 
A downcast heaven, 
I grew sullen 
And many more
Cursed the gloom; 

But they race
To hit the ground, 
Put the thirst to drown, 
And the Flowers
To bloom...

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Sometimes in your life
You might be sad,
lonely, rejected or
downcast oh friend
Do be calm
put on that smile
that you may look younger
smile is the cure
the cure to all situation...

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Sometimes in your life
You might be sad,
lonely, rejected or
downcast oh friend
Do be calm
put on that smile
that you may look younger
smile is the cure
the cure to all situation...

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Preaching repentance in his flowing robes
    Abstinence from that which stains the soul

  The ascetic slumped forward, face downcast
    Neglecting his body, he'd breathed his last...

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A lonesome young mutt in Kalamazoo
Was so downcast he kept out of view
Just a schnauzer pug-mix
Shunned by smug pure-bred chicks
He’s found true love with his dear cockapoo

1/15/22...

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DEPRESSION
way past
downcast

DEVILISH
enjoys
annoys

DIAPER BLOWOUT
changer
danger

DIETING
waistline
decline

DOG FLOAT
poodle
noodle

DR DRE
yo, what's
deez nuts?...

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A smile's a transformer
  It changes your day
To be-bop and blue skies
  from downcast and gray

So turn off the gloom
  and switch on a grin
A good mood's contagious
  ~ Laughter its twin...

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Mrs. Elinor Roosevelt championed society's outcasts
Asians, widows, orphans, blacks -- all those downcast
   Yet as six million perished in World War Two
   She refused to speak up for a single Jew...

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darkness reigns beyond the pale,
the downcast experience it and fail,
to see a new horizon,
when anger burns the ones we  meet,
see darkly, hatred indescreet,
keeps sanity from rising?

thanks Russell....Don Johnson...

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I am downhearted, discouraged, dejected, downcast.
Ms. Positive said “You need to look up, for positives and fast.”
I am disheartened, dismayed, down in the dumps she replied.
Determined to be miserable, hopeless, sad, an expert who cried....

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The sorrows of a soldier’s world
Can be seen in his downcast eyes
The tears that streak his cheeks
Are unable to tell us why
Pain comes from many sources
Weakening a battered soul
Overwhelming visions of darkness
Turn a young heart to old...

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Forgotten people
unnoticed daily
with downcast faces
that no one sees anyway

Invisible people
scurry to their houses
unseen by many
unseen by all actually

Cellophane people
hiding their hearts
so no one else hurts them
we see them not...

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In front of the class
she obediently stands
her fingers locked in cradled hands
with downcast eyes and trembling lip
she leaks a tear that sears her soul
then meekly voiced 
and barley heard 
she mumbles what she thinks the teacher wants.

...

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I lean beside a furrowed willow tree,
with threadbare limbs downcast
as I recall a meadow of youth's game--
now my belly, bones are empty, 
falling weary from old age and distant
cold orange pulsating  starlight.


A Brian Strand Contest : 239
10 Nov 16...

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Let not your heart be downcast,
Breathe not a hopeless sigh.
Lift up your eyes and see the light 
Arising in the sky.
                                  
God's heaven now is richer,
An angel chorus sings.
The joyful spirit now is free,
The eagle won its wings....

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