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Unfaithful
Ah yeah ah oh
Ah yeah ah oh
So scared and fragile...
So weak for only awhile...
Unfaithful me is as cold as glaciers of disgrace glamorized 
Unfaithful you is as hot as fire of desire, burning...you and I...

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Categories: turn out the lights, deep, drug,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Before You Go a Little Way, Prospecting
for F. A.

You, in going a little way from yourself
Have gone a long way from my gullible ilk.
« I’m trying hard not to like you, » you said
The breaths of several men surging in your...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn out the lights, girlfriend-boyfriend, words, me, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Your True Colors
I see you're true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that why I love you 
I see your (one for the ghetto) true colors shinning through (straight up) I see your true...

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Categories: turn out the lights, life, love, me, faith, love, me, i
Form: I do not know?
Cliche and Catch Phrase Party
Once in a blue moon I have been told
The cliché’s clan gets together with the Catch Phrase posy

If I have told you once I have told you a thousand times this story or are you...

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Categories: turn out the lights, fun, word play,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member South Bronx
While I'm reading a poem about it on the previous page
the girls come over to visit their boyfriends and dance
in high shoes and perfume. Their legs are strong and their voices high.
And the guys get...

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Categories: turn out the lights, city, dance, jobs, money, poetry, sweet, war,
Form: Verse



The Greatest Disease Iii
”. Madness 

veiled in laughter, my tears splashed upon the 

floor, I wakened from my reverie as keys rattled 

in my door.

“Hello, Dave, how are ya today”.

“You know Jim I am real tired”.

“Look here Dave-uh...

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Categories: turn out the lights, cancer,
Form: Epic
Bad Dreams
I like to be the hero in my dreams, 
                       a seafaring captain...

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Categories: turn out the lights, cry, dream, fear,
Form: Prose
Dead Hero Child
slowmotion watching for you to
say take slow motion off and 
delete the sound of my snoring
take my breathe away

stones love
thinking bout my truck
hesitating never was faded
and now it shines again to twst 
breathtaking slow motion...

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Categories: turn out the lights, art, life, parody, people, sympathy, me,
Form: Free verse
One For the Road
One For The Road


A mother cries, at her babies smile,
Because everything is alright.
A father lies dying in his car,
He’s not coming home tonight.


If only he had changed his ways,
If only he had used his head...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn out the lights, baby, car, dad, death, drink, home,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Battle For the Birdseed
We love feeding and watching the birds which is why in the mountains when we’re there
if you visit us there’s a good chance you’ll see bird feeders everywhere.

It seems like such an easy task..fill the...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn out the lights, bird,
Form: Rhyme
They Call Me the Boogie Man
They call me the Boogie Man

They call me the Boogie Man...cause, that's my name
I'll always be around to drive your kids insane

Nobody wants to have what I got
When I get sick, man I'm covered in...

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Categories: turn out the lights, children, kids, funny, humorous, parody, sick, silly,
Form: Lyric
A Rubbish Tip In Your Lounge
If you want to avoid waking up to a sea of Rubbish in your lounge,
You might think about Turning off your TV  and internet,
Before you turn out the lights.
And if you want a comfortable...

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Categories: turn out the lights, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety, betrayal, crazy, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Turn Off the Alarm

Breach alarm klaxon blaring


There’s nothing to see ... 
just pretend like you didn’t hear 
that warning sound

Don’t be alarmed:
Take a couple of these Valium chill pills
to help calm your nerves down

Do you like the soothing,...

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Categories: turn out the lights, allusion, imagery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Another One Shuts Down - Corona Virus Edition
Another One Shuts Down (Corona virus version)

Gates and boards and reels of wire
Garbage by the gates
Driveway overgrown with grass
The factory is a state

Security checks once an hour
To make sure all's still locked
Another business shut it's...

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Categories: turn out the lights, business, community, society, sorrow, sympathy, wisdom, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member David Kavanagh
D—Does nothing all day, but write annoying poems 
A—And this one’s no better, just bickers and moans
V—Vainglorious imbecile, should be locked in a cell
I—Indifferent to (senior members), oh boy he can tell
D—Downright irreverent, shows unbridled...

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Categories: turn out the lights, allusion, humorous,
Form: Acrostic
Another One Shuts Down
Another One Shuts Down
Gates and boards and reels of wire
Garbage by the gates
Driveway overgrown with grass
The factory is a state

Security checks once an hour
To make sure all's still locked
Another business shut it's door
the economy was...

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Categories: turn out the lights, 9th grade, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Things My Mother Taught Me
My mother taught me how to read a book
plant seeds in soil and how to look, 
at other people with an open mind
saying, "Everyone has mountains to climb."

She taught me how to write poems and...

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Categories: turn out the lights, dedication, inspiration, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Pharmaceutical Remedy

Two wrongs don’t make nothing right
Two lying wet eyes
make me wanna turn out the lights,
and turn my back on you at night

One vow should mean everything you say
Zero tolerance
is the cure medicine
my heart doctor told...

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Categories: turn out the lights, allusion, feelings, health, philosophy,
Form: Ode
Nosferatu Anxiety Two
In the scheme of things I want to believe that everything is gonna be alright, nosferatu has his hand on the switch and he's about to turn out the lights. That evil grin, the stagnant...

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Categories: turn out the lights, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Slip Off Your Halo Tonight
I must confess, I've undressed you, in my mind
Even made love, while thinking of you
The halo you wear round your finger
Ties the binds that I can't undo

He holds your hand
While I want your heart
Our souls...

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Categories: turn out the lights, conflict, emotions, feelings, love, lust, relationship, sensual,
Form: Lyric
Brilliant Conciousness
The line between brilliant consciousness
And the darkness of oblivion
Is thin, is faint.
The physical is simply a host;
But does it contain a ghost?
Why are we here?
What we do,
Does it have any effect on, who are you?
And...

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© John Booth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turn out the lights, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleepless Nights
I've had quite a few of them days,
those endless sleepless nights.
Not because of stress or drugs,
or loving couple fights.
But something just happens
when I turn out the lights,
my mind won't shut down?
It suddenly ignites

In a flurry...

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Categories: turn out the lights, sleep, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colored Bottles
Please please, I  don't wanna go to sleep.
Let me stay up I won't make a peep!
It seems like the grownups have all the fun.
Look at those cool bottles, can I have one?

You are so...

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Categories: turn out the lights, child, remember,
Form: Rhyme
The 30th Anniversary of Michael Robbins' Death
You starred in "The Visitation" which was an episode of Doctor Who.
Your life ended thirty years ago today on December the 11th of 1992.
You died two weeks before Christmas Day.
You were sixty-two when you passed...

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Categories: turn out the lights, anniversary, celebrity, death, england,
Form: Rhyme
A Cowboy Is
A sweet reality, The cowboy image
A laborer wore what he could get
ready- to - wear,
would make city men quit
hand me downs
and second hand clothes
discarded garments
by men who stuck up their nose,

in a ranch or range
they'd...

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Categories: turn out the lights, dedicationmen, city, men,
Form: Rhyme

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