Short Shake It Off Poems

Face won't let me smile
Always feeling down and out
Just can't shake it off...

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Imprisoned anxiety
A hefty encumbrance
You either shake it off, or...
be crushed under it



Date written: 12/01/2019...

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Despondent leopard could barely eat
He was missing his favorite cousin Pete
You have to shake it off his parents said.
But he had a feeling that Pete was dead....

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It is harder than I thought to shake you off..

I feel so empty and lost not having you to talk too...

Whom ever you are, you got past my defenses..

Dare I say...

I miss you......

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I have a new piece that's 416 characters too long for the poetry section.

Called "shake it off"

the URL is:

www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/shake_it_off_10825

I hope you like it  =]...

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I blinked
My eyes lying to each other
“did you…”
“no, don’t”
“yeah…but I”
“stop blinking and shut it”
“but that image”
“shake it off”
I blinked again
a tear in one eye.

John G. Lawless
©7/25/2022...

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last night I really didn't feel quite WELL
I tried to shake it off with all my WILL
with window open, hands upon the SILL
I deeply breathed fresh air that felt like SILK
which did the trick for I'm no longer SICK...

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The scar left will be haunting 
Let’s nots forget that feeling 
the energy of a group 
when we all hear the first chord 
the melody takes control 
shake it off, let’s rock and roll
bring back all the live music....

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Find You Soon

Need to write it down
Shake it off
Let  it out
File it away
For yet another day
The information is there 
To recall when I have need
 Just glad another piece of the puzzle is clear

(10.08.14)...

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I am gone

A whisper of a song

Long past

Went too fast

Lyrics chill to the bone

And turn to stone

Try to fly

Never reach the sky

Shake it off, try once more

What for?

Too late to fly

Forgot to say goodbye

I am gone

A whisper of a song...

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Stress be gone, Stress be gone, Stress be gone
Periodt, Periodt, Periodt. Be gone, Be gone, Be gone.
Shake it off, Shake it off, Shake it off. Not today, Not tomorrow shake it off, Shake it off, Shake it off. Get out, Get out, Get out. Poof be gone, Poof be gone, Poof be gone....

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I drop
Sometimes floating does that
Some fear grabs me
Erases everything and plants a thought
'what if' is the start
I need to shake it off and wait it out
Looking back I see I know
*It's a thought*
I'll remind myself
I'll move on from it
Nothing happened other than a thought
...

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I've always thought poetry as a form of art done by once upon a time. Surely something intelligent, raw and beautiful. 

Can't help feeling useless whenever I tried to do the same cause it won't be. So I just pulled my pen out and write. 

Fighting my mind. Just shake it off. Shake it off....

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You shake it off
Puke it up
Try to keep moving to no avail 
We are gone today
Only ashes of our past left 
And not a single future could lessen our
desperation 
These days are filled with the horror of walking 
up
To be a human in orbit 
When all i is a blatant lie
IT all moves so quick...

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Ideas to change my mind
Attempts to chain my mind
There’s a wild horse inside
Roaming the shrinking prairie
Whose voice does it heed?
What advice does it need?
To tame it is to break it
To put it to good use is
To put it in a yoke
Shake it off, throw it down
Forget what you’ve learned 
This is how freedom will be earned...

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Not swimming far out,
mostly in small circles, 
you keep the faith.

A four-year-old's mind
in an eighty-year-old body,
both almost working in harmony.

Back on the bank
shivering, befuddled, 
you attempt to recall 
bliss from pain, 

Then you shake water off, 
roll on the grass a little,
huff your little engine....

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Bring me the head of Wayne Coyne:

 Strange Flesh isn't fun without a dopamine rush. A severed limb Chemical exchange tongue like a paintbrush. The avengers of truth are growing weary on their quest. Sleepy eyes swell, fixated on the fleeting ideas. Shake it off little brother. Time to be sharp. Repeat the mantra and keep your blades clean....

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Wipe your tears you'll be all right
shake it off and smile for once in awhile
trust me honey you'll be alright so shake it off
and don't let go of him through the night
cause honey you'll regret when you let go,
he's one in a million, so is your life and your soul.
So honey shake it off and show your smile it only comes
every once in awhile....

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Darkness hovers over this tree,
The chains of bondage deceive thee,
Oh shake them off through each new breeze,
The devils grin can’t hold these leaves,
Beneath the bark nourishing sap does lie,
The sweetest taste awaits its sky,
Just shake them off through each new breeze,
The devils grin can’t hold these leaves.

By: Sabina Nicole
contest: secondhand emotion...

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you’re rude
disgusting
vile 
dirty
selfish
extremely selfish

you have nothing
but your interests at heart
you’re an aggressor
 
you’d deny it
with your last breath

‘I didn’t realize’
would be the closest to a confession
we’d ever get

you’re a leech
can’t shake you off
go away

what, are you deaf too?



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on March 21, 2018...

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SO HERE I AM ONCE AGAIN...
LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT.........
IM BATTLING THIS DEMONIC SIN....
LOOKING, PRAYING FOR ANOTHER ROUTE....

A DEMONS TALONS TEARING AT MY BACK...
I TRY AND SHAKE HIM OFF...
HE HAS A WELL PLANNED ATTACK....
AND THE SULFUR.MAKES ME COUGH.....

I FEEL THE FIRE...
IT BURNS DEEP IN MY SOUL.....
WATER CAN ONLY  QUINCH MY DESIRE....
ONLY THEN, CAN I GAIN CONTROL............

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Shadows loom at my back
Nefarious plans attack
Try to shake it off of me
Darkness clings but none can see
Tailing me all the day
Make this evil go away
Sulfur lingers on the fog
Terrified I start to jog
Breathe of hell upon my cheek
Death upon me
Knees go weak
On the icy ground I shiver
Ripping piercing through my liver
Soul is taken off the track
Shadows stab me in the back
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Oh this is my golden pen 
Made with no error
To record all in this era

It’s not my pen’s error
But a bloody sword era
Where all become an error 

A bloody sword error
Happened in a favorite era
I still see it a sword error 

It’s all bloody sword’s nip 
Keep it off my pen tip 
‘Cause it’ll make you shift 

You’ll shake it off like dust 
But just know my pen’s text 
Will reveal all your bloody wrath...

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Look in the mirror
Staring back...a face
but not yours!

Try to shake it off
still there...not leaving
try to embrace it.

Start to think
thoughts...not your own
what is this?

Seeing things
hallucinations... strange findings
where am I?

Paranoia settles over
worry...irrational
getting used to it.

No longer pushing it away
the feeling...welcoming
no longer afraid

Maybe I'm mad
Laughing...that's okay
I'm a poet!...

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Beautiful mysterious eyes
disappeared in the dark  midnight skies
feeling nostalgic after the last kiss goodbye
soft whispers of promises that never left her mind
she  could'nt  rewind the  past, or change the lies
or fall down by the wayside
destined to shine  even in dark times
this young woman was determined to get up
shake it off ,breathe and win again 
pushing thru barriers of a brighter day 
always remember you are meant for greatness...

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