Best Close Off Poems

I feel safe in a rhyme.
With a rhyme you can
Close off a thought,
Tie up loose ends....

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Knowing defeat I now softly sleep
my arms are lighter 
and feet do not tread deep waters

My brain rest from spirits for the time being
I do not fight that loss of control and shut my eyes
and no man nor beast removes me from who I am

I...

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Now that I have gotten that over with,
Being straightforward as a piss-ant on fire,
Telling you it just is what it is,
That behind all the frizz,
Is a beardless fake whose heraldic bearings
Are the arms of a sickly snake,
And that all this derogatory self-derision is decisively the...

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Cont. from Part 1

After I saw that Mission where all the homeless live
 My heart hurts, that we as a Nation, can’t even a nickel give
 How brave are we as a Country, but equally important, how brave are we as humans beings?
 When we...

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When sky is grey and east is clouded high
with ever coming stiffer breeze give mind
to take in sails and make things right with try
to keep bow pointed straight toward great swells kind.
Then we were close off coast of Java Isle
and she was pitching like oft...

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The rabbit foot
Walking through the woods one day I spied a thing on the ground.
It happens to be a rabbit's foot. At least I thought.
In my pocket, it did go. Then the trouble it began to flow.
I fell down in a hole and broke my...

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Some learn what they live, it shapes who they are.
Some learn from living, we all bear the scars.

Some learn to be selfish from abuse and neglect.
Some learn to nurture, not harm or reject.

Some learn to reach out, to take in and love.
Some learn to close...

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I SIT IN FRONT 
OF THE TV SCREEN
WATCHING NOTHINGNESS 
THAT APPEARS TO BE  REAL

TO 
APPEAL
TO 
THE VIEWER’S VISCERAL FEEL

BUT IN REALITY
NO MORE REAL 
THAN THE BARKERS SPIEL 
OR THE SALESMAN'S DEAL

WATCH OUT 
ON THE WORLD’S TV SCREEN 
FOR THE SALESMAN ‘S STEAL 
AND THEIR...

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Some where between the men and the mouse
I thought we had figured all this out
Maybe I could have saved myself from this pain
But maybe again I would have done it all the same

Somehow I lost you over that hill
While your off living I had to...

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Don't play a dirge, when I'm no longer
Cozy dreams and fickle nights we used to ponder
Shut down the roads; close off that phone, 
For I am no more. 
Hold not a vigil, even though we're really prone

Rather, just say a few happy things, 
A poem...

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I suppose this is what
Happens when I show you
What has gone through my
Heart and has touched my soul.

A story that you should 
Already know.
One of names and games
Played at the expense
Of a child who had 
The misfortune 
Of being born
At the wrong time and date.

He...

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I feel empty, 
Or feel too much 
Like Marilyn Monroe 

Like me,
What goes on through our heads
Only we would know..

We just wanted love,
Without any conditions..

We've known a form of love 
And its many renditions 

But it wasn't real, nor was it true,
So we gave ourselves...

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(His Version of Split Personalities/Love and Hate)

Your personality is so baffling to me, how after all that you’ve endured is it still unwavering?
I am speaking to you in regard to myself because I am astonished with your mind, the way you were able to rise...

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when you feel like pacing up and down
hitting yourself in the head
on that perimeter fence of enclosed emotion
bracing for an onslaught of pain
that won’t dissipate on the barbed wire fences

a watch tower is mocking and increasing the hurt
steps are weary burdensome and dirty
boots of contempt...

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Clueless Clara chatters
   constantly, blurting out
      careless words that create
         chaotic confusion
      confounding most old folks
   causing them to quickly
close off their hearing...

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