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Slowdown Poems - Poems about Slowdown

Premium MemberIn life’s eventide

...During life’s sunset years, in slowdown mode,
sidestepping environs that provoke strife,
our tranquil soul dwells in God’s heart abode,
invoking love mists that make us bliss rife.

Kindly eye l...
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Categories: slowdown, peace, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet

Scenes From The First Snow Storm of 2024

...The mayor out to save a few bucks
dragged his feet declaring a snow emergency.
 
The sanitation department decided it was time
to begin a work slowdown protesting cutbacks made
to their departme...
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Categories: slowdown, weather,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberOn Left Right Politics

....
A sinking feeling
In the City of Djinns

...Pollution is down by 20 % this year
One reason given is economic slowdown

Happy souls-  worlds second most populous 
A free liberal atmosphere d...
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Categories: slowdown, analogy, political,
Form: Concrete

God's Foresight Teaching

...peeling layers off
realizing something is left
the feeling so right

so lovely she is
time and life made me forget
slowdown so needed

once wanted to leave
lying to myself in droves
my hear...
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Categories: slowdown, growth, love, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse

The Doggone Homeless Kitten Got Me

...i light a candle tonight
i make cinnamon roll oatmeal
the only company that i have is a homeless kitten
i give her some milk 
we enjoy the quiet of the aging night
we both need the calm and the ...
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Categories: slowdown, fun, good night, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAnd

...And 

Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. 
These are the things
we live with, in the country. 
Some you step on, 
some travel in your clothes, 
and some stink. 

Foxtails. 
That sounds so...
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Categories: slowdown, adventure, christian, creation, garden,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMagic Carpet Ride

...If you believe in magic,
come and take my hand.
We will escape what's tragic,
and stop trying to understand.

Leaving all of the chaos behind.
Taking everything that has been denied.
Belief an...
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Categories: slowdown, adventure, fantasy, sky, stars,
Form: Quatrain

Hello, October

...October announces autumn's cool weather.
Red, yellow, brown and some green
embellish the sky and horizon with color.
Blessed is the harvest of summer's hard work.
Orange carvings decorate our yar...
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Categories: slowdown, 11th grade, autumn, baseball,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTime

...Time 


Did we think that time would always there for us?
An infinite amount of time to use as we please.

Never counting time.....and never thinking it would end

Did we ever doubt that some...
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Categories: slowdown, 10th grade, angel, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAddiction To Suffering Love

...So, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,

Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark pas...
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Categories: slowdown, analogy, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberNursing Issues Back To Health

...Florence they are honoring nightingales
Blazing an individual’s healthy trail 
Having a firm grip on what is going on 
When life unleashes an adversity bomb 
And everyone needs to stay calm  
Pr...
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Categories: slowdown, appreciation, care, health, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Get Onboard

...Been late for the past few hours, girl get out the shower
This don't make no sense
Slow to get up hills
afraid of making spills
Don't mean that we should stop
This love was built to last 
stop ...
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Categories: slowdown, music, song,
Form: Lyric

Tired of Feeling Sleepy Today August 17th 2019

...Tired of feeling sleepy today - August 17th, 2019

Lashed with fatigue,
eye cannot fend off lethargy
hazy, hot, humid weather zaps
mental physical, and spiritual energy
even men of cloth
vario...
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Categories: slowdown, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Come Alive

...Come Alive

I’ve made myself
small
insignificant
undistinguishable
my needs, my life, myself
small
whispering offenses
be quiet arguments
scarcity, anxiety, depravity
Find you voice, Child...
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Categories: slowdown, anxiety, birth, blessing, cry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPoverty of Health

...Poverty: 
Unusually limited access
to health,
nutritional poetry,
liturgical dance,
and positive-restorative energy resources--

The four WealthFaces of liberal love.

Poverty of Health deri...
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Categories: slowdown, earth, health, integrity, language,
Form: Political Verse

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