Short On Off Switch Poems

we have an on-off switch
enabling us to shift focus
realm any, what matters is
love be our soul’s locus...

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On and off switch
Shine light or not
Messy feeling.

On and off show
Shadow art film
Funny feeling.

On and off fright
Upside coaster
Risky feeling.

On and off love
Depend on mood
Rocky feeling....

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity...

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity...

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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1.Toxic myopathy can be caused by many drugs and toxins.
2.Chemical poisoning can cause myopathy as well as neuropathy.
3.It manifests in the leg muscles,which lead to difficulty walking.
4.Nerve signals works like the body's “off switch”for muscles.
5.Some individuals have a normal life span and little disability....

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Listen to poem:

I should want to sleep
But I don’t
I can’t
I’m wired
I can barely close my eyes
I lay awake
Thoughts circling
Bobbing bubbling
Rolling around in my head
I worry and think of things
All jumbled
Scenarios
Possibilities
What ifs
Cloud my brain
Can’t seem to find
The off switch



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on January 19, 2020...

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You are known to raise blood pressure,
all my taste buds have puckered up;
A teaspoon’s like you’ve drank a cup,
I’m left buzzed on briny treasure;

Holding a sick sense of pleasure 
just leaves me prone to overdose;
My off switch leaves me so morose,
I’m frozen by where hope is hung;
Heightened flavor sits on my tongue,
that taste as sweet as salt so close....

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Where is my soul did
I sell it for an endless
thrist I must find my
off-switch the problem 
is my greed my glass 
must always be full and
my lips never dry my 
heart only pumps JD 
keeps me on a smooth
search for late night passions
who cares when my beds
never empty a life of casauls 
is good for numbers but my heart
is absent of love so pour me
another one...

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The on off switch, 
everyone wonders which to press,
to flip it up, click it off,
turn it back on, start a new cycle,
of life on the run. 
A new power, a brand new day. 
electricity, setting a world in motion, 
with a click of a button, a flip of a switch,
an on off pattern, awake and sleep,
lifes cycle, till the batteries drain,
recharge, and restart. 
all over again....

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a shadow
one night in my room
a shadow
behind the door
a shadow 
a past unknown
a shadow
living or  dead 
hidden behind my door
a shadow dark
like a ghost  running  in time
hiding and hiding
behind the door
running and running
behind the door
running from the past 
running into the future
running
like a torch looking for it’s off-switch
disappearing into my sleep
a shadow...

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A perfect off switch 
the soft silence of headphones;
Sink into the sound 
of classic rhythm and soul,
take me outside of my head;

I want to be free 
even if for a moment;
Acoustic flutters,
that high E string butterfly
snaps and bleeds out in the sky;

Turned all the way up 
solace inside the volume;
Three minutes pop off
there’s a drumbeat in my ears 
canceling all the world’s noise....

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Deep breath 
And push
Face, stretch out, glide,
Noise diminished, 
smooth as silk taking in the first.
Meditation moving forward.
Ever forward. 
Pushing downhill.
Survival in the chill. 
Survival in chill.
Enumeration in perfect timing.
No chore to attend, 
no chores to attend to.
My survival in the chill. 
My off switch.
Breathe, pull, pull, pull, breathe.
Silent, rhythmical, turn and push....

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She was left to break. 
He lingers in her thoughts. 
He haunts her at night, 
For her to ache a little more. 

She has lost her senses.

He's missing her. 
He misses being pampered.
He misses her meals. 
He misses manipulating her.
He misses juggling with her thoughts. 
He misses playing the game. 
He plays the game like a on and off switch. 

She reminds herself every day that he was another lesson in her life....

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When I let one loose in the elevator,
it wriggled and slithered and hissed and seemed
to eye the passengers’ pantyhosed legs.
It climbed up one’s heal, bore fangs. She screamed.

I grabbed it from the screamer’s ankle
And said, “No fear! Just Simon the snake!
He’s only come for April Fool’s Day.
Now see this on-off switch. He’s fake!”

Contest name: When I Let One Loose In The Elevator
Contest Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Bedtime
                          Is here, at last.
               I'm all done with the world;
             My head upon my soft pillow.
On pause, matters I'll press play at daybreak.
                 As I fight a losing battle
                   With my weary eyes, I...
                     Flick the off switch;
                              Bedtime.



Date written: 02/01/2023...

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