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Best Turn Down Poems

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Premium Member Turn Down the Voices In My Head
I pretended to be sleeping, ....  through long hours of the night
Across the milky-way, you slept, 'til dark became the light
I could hear your...

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Categories: turn down, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Slammed Out Bam
Slammed  out  Bam

For a moment I will fantasize 
Lead him  on a trip
Make him realize 
this is more than a strip
boy you...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn down, fantasy, imaginationme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Paul, Peter and the Tweeter
Why not choose, 
a billionaire leader?
One who is not 
an eloquent speaker.
Trouble rises,
he robs Paul to pay Peter.
The bold rich need...

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Categories: turn down, anxiety, celebrity, confusion, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member When Afflictions Feel Like Inflictions
I once was fast and so athletic. Bad afflictions? I had none.
Measles, mumps (the normal things). Youth was so much fun.

Then came my childbearing early...

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Categories: turn down, body,
Form: Couplet
Halloween Night
This Hallow's eve I sat in wait, 
 no trick nor treaters came near gate. 
To rest I turn in for the night, 
 I...

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Categories: turn down, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pigeon Poop
What if I told you things aren't
what they used to be.

What if I told you clichés
are not always "for the birds"

That the Clichés cling for
a...

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Categories: turn down, bird, parody, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Writer's Block
I've got no zippity in my doo-dah,
No tiger in my tank.
There's no steam in my engine,
And white pages remain blank.

My life is full of clutter,
My...

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Categories: turn down, humor, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Cry-Baby Cat
Cry Baby Cat,
was a stray that turned up
wailing outside our front door.
We never turn down a stranger in town,
especially when clouds
have gathered to storm.

Beginning to...

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Categories: turn down, cat, pets,
Form: Free verse
My Poetic Assault Part 2 (Slam)
Every poet on this site fill up your cup and throw your hands in the air.
It's gonna be an entertaining night, so sit back and...

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Categories: turn down, dedication, fantasy
Form: Verse
Jewels of Love
When fearful voices in the night began to cry,
Roaring from countless dreams behind the scream,
Dribbled eyes gazing into darkness at the vast sky,
This darksome turn,...

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Categories: turn down, allusion, beauty, dream, faith,
Form: Imagism
Where Hate Can'T Come Ashore
Perhaps our Cafe should be,
on an island in the sea.
Somewhere neutral ,fine and free
Where Hate can't come ashore.

Maybe we could close our eyes 
turn down...

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Categories: turn down, friendship, peace, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Turning the Right
Did I turn the right corner of life .  The decisions of life have lead 
Me to this new point of life.  Also...

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Categories: turn down, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Things I Left Behind
one of these days i will find all the things i left behind
love from my family, love from my friends
my life possiblities with no ends
but...

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Categories: turn down, deep, depression, prison,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Dressmaker
The Dressmaker

A woman with overflowing kindness, patience and vigor
All- in-one: a dressmaker, sewer and a tailor
Devoted herself unselfishly to her family and neighbors
Her endurance and...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn down, dedication, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Little Boy Inside the Man
The little boy that cries inside the man, dry your eyes, why has trouble come for me?
Be still my soul deep from within, where terror...

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Categories: turn down, youth, boy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs