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Best Shake Off Poems

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Premium Member Shake Off the Wolf
steel clouds once more freeze
bare trees comfort each other
ripped trunk holds it together

the sun shields its eyes
its flames dying in Winter
the core feels the biting...

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Categories: shake off, weather,
Form: Choka



Premium Member Jallianwala Bagh
The occupation of India began, with the East India company
And prospered across large swathes of Indian territory
Then the British Crown took control, bringing military might
And...

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Categories: shake off, death, england, garden, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Harbinger Birds of Spring Potd
With the incoming sounds of spring, a resurrection of life,  
the chilliness flees. Quote _ by Poet 



Ready for a new season, Spring birds
Shake...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shake off, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living Truth Embraced
Living Truth

Ancient guides of venerated truth
Stumble through numb spiritual graveyards
Where truth casts its shadow in chiseled words,
A signature of affection,
On moss bathed alabaster stones that...

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Categories: shake off, life,
Form: Free verse
Bending the Darkness
Bending the darkness

Look at you cowering, haunted by fiction
Shapes at the window of menacing tone
Tearing your hope into shreds as you lie there
Gazing at ceilings...

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Categories: shake off, encouraging, fear, strength,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Arise, Oh Heart POTD
Arise! Oh Heart, from the catacombs of the dead
Shake off the dust, for Life beckons you like a buddy
Peel off the weariness that wraps you...

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Categories: shake off, cheer up, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse
Village In the Valley
Village in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind

You're a flashlight
In the night
You...

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Categories: shake off, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Cost of Freedom
The cost of freedom has increased, the price went up.
It takes alot to be free, but the price is love.
And the PRIZE is love.
Not saying...

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Categories: shake off, africa, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse
Escapism
A flickering spark between you and me–
     grating of steel on steel and I shall flee!
When my opinion is not valued,...

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Categories: shake off, anger, character, conflict, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spring Is In the Air
A faint perfume of lilac blooms has stirred the sleeping dawn
Bright sunlight weaves a golden loom with threads across the lawn
Crisp white-lipped Delphiniums tossed snowflakes...

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Categories: shake off, flower, nature, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Do Not Say Yes When You Mean To Say No
Do not say yes when you mean to say no
Why would you carry the luggage of lies?
Sing; sing a sincere song wherever you go.

Many murderers...

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Categories: shake off, song,
Form: Villanelle
Sweet Sparrow
Call it alliteration or pun,
It is more than that ;
I write about my beloved sparrow that  nests
on mountains and tree tops 
 just like...

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Categories: shake off, emotions, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Christening
Baptized by the sun,
The leaves shake off drops of light:
Pasture’s sacrament....

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Categories: shake off, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member ''Maybe Tomorrow''
sometimes, I am sleepwalking through life
disconnected
stumbling
not fully awake    lost and confused
I feel, I am not with the living
I tell myself,  "wake...

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Categories: shake off, depression, sad,
Form: Free verse
Snap Out of It.
Life can be tough at times
Depression and discouragement
Can set in. The cares of this world 
And negative thoughts, can overwhelm
You with heaviness, you have a...

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© Abraham L  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shake off, depression
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things