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Closing Off Poems - Poems about Closing Off

From Rose to Rosewood

...Pigtails sat tightly on her head
Curls poking through
And framing her face.
The bear kept her company,
Sat close by her head.
The dolls sat carefully placed
Drinking tea around the table.
Her ...
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Categories: closing off, emotions, flower, goodbye, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWaves of Hope, Oceans of Despair

...They're children of the sand, sand in an hourglass
Sands of time running out, running from their past
Desert winds howl, howl like hungry ghosts
Howling louder than bombs and tyrannical hosts

L...
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Categories: closing off, children, heartbroken, horror, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberthe gardener

...soil turned with tiller 
she digs the hole for new seed 
and covers her tracks 

closing off garden 
keeping it from animals 
waiting for bounty...
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Categories: closing off, garden,
Form: Haiku

Little Dark Age

...She has flourished into a flower that has bled,
  Far along from a sprout who desired protection from the soil bed
Petals soft and bright deceives the eye,
Ahead a winter that shall let it die
Lo...
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Categories: closing off, 12th grade, age, childhood,
Form: I do not know?

Peace

...What others think of it
It doesn't care at all.
It's not the absence of thoughts
but the presence of mind
It's not the carefree attitude
Regardless, the caring nature
It is not the unconsciousn...
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Categories: closing off, confusion, emotions, peace, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Long Road

...Softly moans the blowing wind
	crossing over bright glittering crystals
endless darkness lies black beneath
	swirling dancing blowing white

soft as feathers downy white
	soft drifts flowing so...
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Categories: closing off, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFog Envelops

...The fog enveloped early morning
Coating it with a silvery mist
Even the golden leaves 'pon the magnolia
Knew they had been sweetly kissed

Bright sunlight tried to peek through
But the clou...
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Categories: closing off, beauty, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Too Dark the Night

...Too dark the night its blackness slipping in
   closing off the light;
 shutting out the world
   its hustle and bustle busyness.
Too cold the winter its harsh white rapture
   blanketing the ea...
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Categories: closing off, christmas, holiday, hope,
Form: Free verse

Strong As a Hearts Resistance

...Stone partitions 
stretching somewhere in the distance
borders beckon cross not here
as strong as a hearts resistance
though intentions are most sincere
cobweb covered disappointments
when trust like...
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Categories: closing off, moving on, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Cheated

...Having a life doesnt matter, 
It seems an awful like death. 
Why does this seem so? 

I walk through life, 
Watching people pass me by. 
Why does this seem so? 

People come in and out of my life, 
I...
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Categories: closing off,
Form: Verse

Apathy For the Apathetic

...can't point your finger of blame at me if its broken right
so would you like a broken finger or rib?
can't die from the joke your not telling that is killing you
would you like a broken rib or bro...
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Categories: closing off, politicalprayer, me,
Form: Free verse

Her Secret's Hard To Keep

...Her tears stain the pillow 
As she lays down to sleep
Dying from within
Her secret’s hard to keep

Violated by one trusted
Betrayed by those she loves
Left alone to suffer
Only wanting to be ...
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Categories: closing off, depression, life
Form: Quatrain

To Those

...To those who made me who I am
By hate or love you gave me strength
To those who knocked me down you taught
What's worth the fight is worth defeat
To those who gave a helping hand
Who didn't know...
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Categories: closing off, introspection, love, philosophyme, me,
Form: Rhyme

Just Listen

...JUST LISTEN



As I lay myself gently down,
I hear the water caressing the rocks, leaping, splashing.
I hear the hawk above me, cawing, screaming.
I hear the woodpecker knocking, tat, tat, tat...
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Categories: closing off, faith, hope, inspirational, upliftingme,
Form: Free verse

Dna

...Life under a microscope dissected piece by piece

peering into cells with x-ray eyes and brain scans

of behavior set in DNA Strands spreading out like veins in disease

contagious in toxic vir...
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Categories: closing off, life
Form: I do not know?

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