Up And Down Poems

A Poem Back To Front

A poem back to front
It's never done
Because
Once you start
You never stop the fun
And stopping just to see
What you might do
You never know
What an author might tell you
So listen closely to
That which I say
Please think about the words
I speak each day
A poem back to front
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Categories: up and down, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUp and Down

Stand up for what you believe in,
Speak up when you know you're right.
Give up when you know you can't win,
Stay up with your love tonight.

Stand down, you've got nothing to prove,
Sit down when you want to cry.
Get down when you just want to groove,
Lay down when it's time to die.
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Categories: up and down, death, love,
Form: Rhyme


Up and Down the Hill

She, the queen of glamour, they say,
Loves making things flow her way.
Fortunate she was, having earned 
A prince as he, so delectable,
Amidst the beauty of hills,
He made her, the dream castle.
As lovingly, She delivered to him once,
"O dear, the castle be a heaven of light"
" I promise dear " he said " there be as
Much
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Categories: up and down, love,
Form: Metrical Tale

Premium MemberRuns Up and Down

jumping barking dog
sun flows half open window
tree leaves susurrate

10/2/2022
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Categories: up and down, anxiety, dog,
Form: Haiku

The Midway Bench

Midway up and down
I have met this gentleman crying 
Sobbing with grief abound
Nerves popping like rivers
He sat on the bench next to me
Holding his swollen head
Grace to Grass I have fallen, said he!
 
The bench where now I sat
A happy bubbling puppy 
Celebrating how high I came
To sit on this bench, where he too sits
Looking
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Categories: up and down, allusion,
Form: Blank verse


Premium MemberFlowing Tides Flows Up and Down

~Water flows 
Washes up against the shore 
Waves and tides up and down 
in and out has no other place to go 
As it flows~



11/36/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
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Categories: up and down, analogy, environment, water,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberLife Charges Up and Down Hills

Life charges up and down hills so fast
One day you are biting your cousin
And they are laughing because you are two.
But not your cousin of course.

In a blink of a wild flower,
you are clunking around in Mommy’s heels.
Thinking you are “all that”
because tomorrow you start kindergarten.

Before you kick off the second horrible shoe
You are learning
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Categories: up and down, age, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberUp and Down Side of November

The petrichor of fallen leaves
and coldness of the sun that grieves.
The lovers’ laughter in the wind.
Their purity shows they haven’t sinned.
     Their faces pinched and full of life,
     no thought of making her his wife.

Trees they groan, especially pine,
wild with shivers, right up their spine.
  
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Categories: up and down, bird, holiday, humor, love,
Form: Lay

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Six the Enchantment

Kites still left hanging upon the winds oh, yes, the generous enchantment, the ever-innocent simplicity. 

Warning us and swirling around and whooshing about amid the humble Streams in the Spring. 

Time jovial, patient Offering Loving thief it weeps. 

Burnt down roses their thorns once bewailing the Cherry Tree; are no more.

The gift of life, a
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Five Adamant

Yes, because I believe the very heart of Grace, adamant, generous, tender and aware, Honest and Faithful waiting patiently; moves, freely, because it knows, the pureness of Love always inspires the opportunity. 

So enchantment gazed upon innocence and desire knew her itself, when first God showed Adam Eve!" Now here today though Time has brought
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Four Amazing

"Yes, this is all still so amazing what impacts the soul truly; and in what ways." This fond endearment was in the Spring Time of our Love as I remember. A perfected shoo-in. 

This was the greatest of the many gracious things, a life you pray always remains; something the pain, the joy of longing
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Three Rescued

Yes, love is no more or less reliable the more you check on this. Just like the frigid days of winter make their way for the pleasures that lay in awe of Spring I'm finding. 

Yes from when turning or if you will consider; returning back to knowing its simple and honest and ever-frivolous unrighteous,
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number Two Gusto

Yes, our Creator's Love; this always comes and it goes between to good people and or thing, and in and between Him just as each uses this all; to remain faithfully helpful; to this effort of remaining lovesome for Him, and for one another, and for all life; or; possibly not. But oh yes; to
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Dandling Up and Down Upon the Lap of the Wind Part Number One Into the Palm of My Hand

Yes, I looked deep into the palm of my hand nope no muse for any of us there. 

Then I took off lollygagging on a whim with the wind's rushing. Yes, but only the effects could I see. Still, I found myself thinking about true Love and thanking God, our Creator. Then I held out
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Categories: up and down, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Bio

Up and Down the Staircase


Age is 
Just a Parcel
At teenage we were dates 
By gray days we fade wear away
You are
A package and will get broken
Someday up the golden
Staircase falling
Backwards


3/5/2020
Let The Pens Flow Butterfly Ciquain Poetry contest
Sponsor:Jenish Somadas







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Categories: up and down, adventure, age, baby, birth,
Form: Cinquain

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