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Best Closing Down Poems

Below are the all-time best Closing Down poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of closing down poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Box
The Box

This box is so small it engulfs me
No windows or doors to be seen
I sit in my corner, thinking:
“Oh Lord, what a wonderful dream.”

I...

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Categories: closing down, anxiety, confidence, depression, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme



My Angel, I Love To Watch You Sleep
My angel, I love to watch you sleep........

When the night comes then your voice calm down
When the moon begin to sail in the sky
then your...

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Categories: closing down, daughter, night, love, night,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Estimate the Cost
You look back and dream of days long gone
You can feel the tears as they're coming on
Just realizing how much you lost
It's no way to...

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Categories: closing down, introspection, life, time, time,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Secret Drawer
This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I...

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Categories: closing down, business, family, sad,
Form: Narrative
A Nightingale Sings of Dawn's Glory
Luscinian voices in the thicket of a midnight waltz 
single male birds singing from a point of solitude  
closing down on city sounds inside...

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Categories: closing down, analogy, animal, creation, love,
Form: Sonnet



Making a Real Difference
Why not make a real difference?
By mending broken down walls and fences.
Instead of defacing personal and business property.
Recognizing people and their business need the
freedom to...

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Categories: closing down, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
We'Re Evolving Backwards
we sit more than we walk 
we think less than we talk 

abandoning our evolution 
legs are something we're not using 

office blocks use finger...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closing down, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Covid 19 Covid 19
Covid 19 
Covid 19
Pandemonium erupts
Toilet paper is king
Churches are cancelling
The choirs cannot sing

Covid 19
Covid 19
The last known hand sanitizer
Has been stolen out of the hands...

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Categories: closing down, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Football Manager
Translating ideas through energetic muscles
and calculative minds
is his doing
knowledgeable tricks and wise options
converted to the physical for the honour and glory
is his aim.

The one at...

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Categories: closing down, football, soccer, sports,
Form: Narrative
Online Shopping
Technology taking over
Faster than we know
Smart phones and pretty gadgets
All these androids on the go
Shops are closing faster
Faster than we think 
More jobs gone tomorrow
It’s...

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Categories: closing down, change, fashion, technology,
Form: Rhyme
School Closing
During last night’s weather report came the warning.
There would be heavy snowfall in the morning.
Radio and television are turned on throughout the town.
The reason is...

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Categories: closing down, childhood, seasonsweather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chastity Belt Fitter Part 2
Good tidings young maidens it is me
The chastity belt bespoke fitter
To all princess and queen
I could tell many a tale about the things I've seen
But...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closing down, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dragon Fire Bar and Grill
Dragon and his penguins were getting restless, as summer came, in style.
So Grandpa Troll opened an eatery, to keep them out of trouble, for a...

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Categories: closing down, fantasy, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Taking a Step
This life's journey is like climbing the stairs
each step, year by year. moving up in the air
the higher I get, seems the harder to breathe
My...

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© Tom Larrow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: closing down, death, depression, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
What Are We Waiting For
where are the voices of the churches in the midst of this economic uncertainty?
where are the spiritual leaders the moral compass of society?
it seems that...

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Categories: closing down, black african american, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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