Short Roll Off Poems

Unwinding letting everything roll off your back...

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Why weigh yourself down with worry? let it roll off your shoulders...

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surge of a shower, urgently nudging the suds to roll off shoulder...

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many colors worn 
raindrops roll off sleeves with style 
pair with rubber boots...

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older, just as close

hotter, covers roll off me

you cling to my warmth


12/15/2020...

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frosty howling gale 
                hail stones roll off horned scutes 
                lightning strikes the heart...

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we lie on our backs
in the snow and count the flakes
falling from the sky
some landing on our eyelids
melt and roll off as tear drops...

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Memories now pouring on the floor
from the ceiling with no one to
conceive it.  Sounds of laughter
roll off the wall.  Echoes
bellow; reminisce
back from when this
house use to
be a
home....

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Hoodwink is a complex word
It doesn't roll off the tongue
Could it be some sort of bird
Who winked instead of sung


Could that bird have hooded eyes
So it could hardly see
That would make it hoodwink itself
Instead of you or me...

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Roars of thunder echo
 Restless clouds colored grey
 Release liquid treasure
 Raindrops roll off rooftops
 Rippling in small puddles
 Raising water levels
 Recipe for flooding

 4-15-2021
 Pleiades R Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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oak trees twinkle with red and brown elves
in the form of leaves, sparkling and pretty
Pumpkins roll off the vine, all fat, some round
The corn is in various states of anguish
October sees a haze above the field
So much activity under the floating clouds...

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While voices surround me ringing out
Life like a tape recorder on fast-forward
I take a breath, try to see straight
I let it all go, roll off me
Like rain on a windshield without wipers
Voices start to fade
The pounding silences
Rain subsides
I can live again
My life...

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The flop and flurry
of woozy wings
tromps over hedgerows.
Claws scrabble
feathers flounce.

Here a rowdy cackle
in a coddled coo,
there a hullabaloo
in a ruffled flutter.
Birdsongs pumps up,
balloon into chattering tunes.

Another teaming tussle,
another musical lurch
as sleepy birds
roll off
their nocturnal perch....

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Birds chirp by jarfuls
in twilight dawn.

The sun could stand correction
in the hesitation of fulfillment.

The planets & stars roll off
the table of sky, plop
in the puddle of lakes serene
as maniacs in straight jackets.

The wind mumbles
it isn’t so.  The unbend poplars
don’t care,
and children
aren’t children anymore....

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How curious it is a simple word
Chimes a memory with one syllable heard

Glorious pairings smoothly roll off the tongue
Tease the lips, oh, air from lungs

Notes of a sentence play a true melody
Chords together, a balanced harmony

Limitless expressions  for my soul to capture
The sheer pleasure to pronounce : Euphoria, Bliss, and Rapture...

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Said the rains
like tear drops
I come roll off the leaves
fresh thirst quencher
these the tears of blessing from above 
trying to tell something
but humans are unwilling to listen
so how can you understand these riddles
sent to encourage you to become conscious
of every drop of good
falling without a price

©Al Juman 4/13/2020...

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Your sour words cut into me 
Sweetly 
As they roll off the tip of your snake tongue
They dance down my rough back
I caress your scales softly-gently
And though I know its deadly,
I watch your fangs sink into me deeper and deeper 
Until I’m filled with your poison 
Now paralyzed and unable to move 
I know, that none of this is true....

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When I see you
My mind turns blank
The words escape
From their rightful place
I begin to freeze
As words of nonsense roll off my tongue.
Gibberish, they are.
You think of me as a fool
Then turn to leave.
Not even the words
"I love you"
Could change our relationship now.
You think of me as crazy.
Stupid.
Ignorant.
I can never manage 
To muster a word
When I see you....

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Return to the nest and dream of grand scenarios
Exist in conjured moments where we can be closer or further divided
Anything but this middle ground latency 
A purgatory of judgement 
You cut off all future plans
Severed aspersions roll off the block 
And stop at my feet
Look up at me with wild uncertainty
Kick it back to the nest and dream of grand scenarios...

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so here i am again trying to make sense of it all

easy come easy go tired of just letting go

my mind races i'm completly sucked into another world

trying to let it all roll off my shoulders

the puddle underneath is getting deeper soon i will drown

not here nor there in a fog trying to escape my inner thoughts

i cannot save them i can barely save myserlf...

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gossamer is the breath
falling in heated touches
this first monday morning
of autumn's calling

sunrise tipped trees
smile back at the horizon
a reflection of dawn

translucid drops
roll off the curls
of leaves yearning
to quench their thirst

no rain comes
from cloudless skies
just the cries of hawks
as they cincture above
appreciating the warmth
sheathed in this day...

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Thought in vain rests on rock
Deep thought enters the heart
Rock is to heavy for the soul
It crushes deep thought

Those who live in a rock house
Should not though glass
Eventually cutting deep into a soul
Emptying the love of a heart

A rock will never warm without fire
Tears of a heart will only roll off
Place this rock among the pebbles
Lift your soul above it and walk on...

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One conversation melts into another, as days go pass
warm breezes of life roll off your tongue
by our openness to understand
I'm thrust into heaven on the caramel touch of you
our desire to explore
your soft velvet voice...
our willingness to expose, and
your cinnamon smile...
our ability to accept the experience
your beautiful brown eyes
your mesmerizing words...
we entrust to each other...

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A furry face that greets me in the morning
laying next to my face upon my flattened pillow

she snuggles closer upon my eyes cracking open to the day
while her tail switches back and forth like the wiper blades on our car


"take me for a walk NOW, Mom," her little furry body and grunts say to me
and as I stretch
so does she in her down dog position as we both roll off the bed and onto
our feet.......

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Mind is burdened, thoughts are deep.

Grabbing thin air, letting go of concrete.

Ideas are fought with fists and blades.

Something tangible fades away.

Words of venom roll off the tounge.

Using spite and hate for wars won.

Letting go of a beautiful history.

All that is won is a shallow victory.


After thought:     Love pours eternally down a drain, drenching those who do not 
want to be saved....

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