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Downturned Poems - Poems about Downturned

Downturned Poems - Examples of all types of poems about downturned to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for downturned.
Premium Member Acme
...To own the upper seat at last is blessed. How clear are skies that shine within the blue. No longer bound by circumstance suppressed. Think! Are there "thanks" to someone that is due? Joyfully......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, character, success, work,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Kaleidoscope Girl
...Kaleidoscope Girl She is made of glass of broken pieces And shattered fragments She has jagged edges That splintered my soul She has wounded me And my scars healed With drops of her seal......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, conflict, desire, emotions, hurt,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Black-eyed Susan
...Black-eyed Susan, a Summer doll. Bright, yellow, with downturned petals. My childhood shadow skips along the trail with honeysuckle scent. Flow’rs stunning in a garden fete. Her sunrays smile ......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, flower,
Form: Verse


Memory of Bones
...The table is old and worn nicks and scratches its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas its holiday pattern worn and forlorn many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted the plum......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Springbok
...She has the tools to draw you in, without such tricks as flesh or skin, perfect orbs that stun unknown: eyes that spoke, to me alone. Every feeling would they betray, want and hatred as clear ......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, africa, animal, break up,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Unconquerable
...Keep the faith inside you burning in the face of vanquished hopes Love will never be the conquered one Strength will give it will to cope “Share the hopes within you still and hold the dreams ......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, care, character, courage, friendship
Form: Rhyme
Call To Arms
...There didn’t have to be a reason no one thing no trigger it was always boiling just beneath the surface always. It could have been the number of soldiers lying empty on the desk next to t......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Train - POTD
... POTD 25 Nov 2020 Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares I do get it about advertising campaigns. Enough to know that, ‘strategically placed ads’ catching......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Untouchables
...Long to touch the rows u p o n rows of coneflowers, but the bees, they b u z z, and the butterflies own. Favorite intrepid host, the red-winged blackbird, towers over the purpleness ......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Steel Face
...I once wore a thick, black mask That made me seem tough, bad Covered my eyes, nose, and mouth So I could not see my foes Or smell the stench of their insults My downturned mouth shut My silenc......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, self,
Form: Free verse
Don'T You Cry Tonight
...~ "Give me a whisper and give me a sigh" Those soft words following the emotions in your eyes exhale poetry on my whimpered dreams Take from me all that I can give while reaching fo......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Singing With the Birds
...Weaver birds near Escombe, where I was raised ... Doing their weaving with palm leaves, cut precisely With little beaks, for bare Acacias across the yard ... Now nests like fruit: wide downturned ......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, appreciation, atheist, faith, fate,
Form: Blank verse
Downtime and Dust Trio
...timeout polished sandstone grains fine trickle through time's measure in downturned hourglass made out of dust man grinds man to dust harsh words make quicksand for him dus......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, meaningful, time, words,
Form: Haiku
Life Like It Is
...A Life My life has three stages, I was young once it didn`t last so long, and the downturned came in my middle thirties, I sank into a gloom which now is called depression, everything terrible ha......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, deep, devotion, dream, earth
Form: Blank verse
The Real Tears
...Those melancholic eyes and downturned lip, Resembling not so much a whining dog As sorrow crafted with a stagehand’s whip Or acted by some theatre’s thespian cog, Did glisten once with tears of s......Read the rest...
Categories: downturned, romantic love, sad,
Form: Sonnet

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