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Outage Poems - Poems about Outage

Blackout
Blackout I sit in a blackout What can I do Wind is a howling The rain's angry too Windowsills rattle High up on my floor I live on the seventh And hear every roar I'm starting to find A still quietness Mixed with a thunder Of solitudeness I sit in a blackout What will I do I'll sit here and bask In my gratitude Bill MacEachern December...

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Categories: outage, dark, introspection, light,
Form: Rhyme
Power Outage
Ear splitting silence Everything stops with a halt The rattle and hum cease I lay there Listening to the blood rushing through my ears and veins I live on the edge of a farm field Pitch black No wind to blow Without the din How am I to sleep...

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Categories: outage, power,
Form: Free verse



It's Time To Meet the Neighbors
Electricity’s out, how do I choose the first task after a storm to amuse? Might I discover new sources in me? To start, I'll replace my personal fuse. Next, a novel concept, I'll take a walk, find out what's making my neighbors all squawk. Old Mr. Harris is banging loudly, No telly to watch, we'll have time to talk. Helping shaky hands free...

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Categories: outage, 11th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Storm
Trees and branches sway. The power has moved outside. The house is too still. A wren chirps sweetly, defying chaotic winds-- innocent solace...

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Categories: outage, anxiety, bird, nature, power,
Form: Haiku
A Stormy Night Dinner
As the dinner hour is approaching Daylight is reproaching Bringing in the darkness of night Lights are all turned on bright House trembles from the power of the wind As the lights are dimmed The mother prepares and cooks They exchange worried looks Possibly the power will soon go out The father quickly looks about For all the supplies they will need Candles, blankets and something...

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Categories: outage, family, fear, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Power Outage
Suddenly we are freed from the burden of technology. The universe reveals itself in a flicker of golden candlelight. Mandela, a circle without beginning, without end. Can we know ourselves? Image: Pixabay...

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Categories: outage, light,
Form: Verse
A Cold Stormy Winter's Night
It is a cold stormy winter’s night. And the power has gone out once again! I light my candles and throw a log on my fire, The bright embers burning a rich amber as they spark. I turn up the volume of Paul Simon at Hyde Park. Thank god for my Spotify downloads! I take a sip of my...

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Categories: outage, happy, humorous, joy, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Power Outage
Here I sit alone Alone in the dark No light anywhere Not even a little spark The lights went out Halfway through the storm Life tomorrow will be Nothing like the norm. Hurricane Zeta Came through with a fury To the shelter We must go in a hurry The winds were so strong And blew with such might Listening to the howling winds All through the night When morning...

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Categories: outage, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Power Outage
Power Outage David J Walker When Winters ice determines The day's destiny We learn our dependency On the technologies, we cannot Live without What if Scares us What if Forces us To live a day without An iPhone Or internet What if We find ourselves In the dark And the winter clouds Shrouding the day As if today might never...

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Categories: outage, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Toilet Paper Outage 2020
OMG people Where’s the toilet paper This shortage were having Is major People going nuts Shopping like mad It’s all so sad Think of others your leaving without What are they to do? While sitting on the loo Doing a poo. Come on guys You’re in a frenzy Time to go Steady. Shops will continue to buy product So, there’s no need For misconduct...

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Categories: outage, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Storm Haiku
spring storm small poems to read by candlelight published Frog Pond 36-2, May 2013...

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Categories: outage, dark, poems, spring,
Form: Haiku
Power Outage 1988 Walkman Memory
percussion hailstorm my ears no longer bored daydreaming about oceans mixing memories during power outage thoughts an escapade my uber sunshine nodding my head with eyes closed to some rare 90s hip hop candy sunglasses tastes like cinnamon watching lightning threaten me as i sit under a tree remembering things like the fiddlers three now the wind is a flute from a funky 70s jazz song my emotions...

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Categories: outage, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Loneliest Among Friends Or a Power Outage
I sit alone in the dark, It engulfs me, seeping into my soul. Voices sing but the song fades away. The last note of the melody drifts into the dark. Shadows Move, Hushed Whispers, Darkness, Silence. It is warm here, where I sit, alone. I feel the thinly carpeted floor, Run my fingers over the little bumps. I see nothing, but feel everything, Silence broken, A song starts, But...

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Categories: outage, absence, dark, psychological,
Form: Bio
Power Outage Haibun
When it’s dark, and you’re cold. When the wind howls at the windows, and rain pounds on the roof. When you’ve got no electricity. When you’ve only a few pennies in your wallet, not enough fuel in the car, and it looks as though the blackout will go on for another day or two. Well,...

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Categories: outage, storm,
Form: Haibun
Outage
The thunder boomed; the lights went out. The air was close and still. Without the fans, we really couldn’t Close our eyes and chill. Our little lantern pierced the dark, Its double A’s still pepped And somehow, as the rain poured down, Eventually, we slept. Two hours passed; my lamp blinked on. I felt a cooling breeze; The power back, providing Circulation to appease. The heat’s been...

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Categories: outage, storm,
Form: Rhyme

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