Short Take A Load Off Poems

The poets from Yorkshire are best

That’s where I come from – you’ve guessed.

       Though our words can get tangled

       Like your smalls in the mangle

Phew! –  That’s quite a load off my chest!...

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I once knew a woman in Hackensack
Toted what she had in a small rucksack
As she walked the streets,
Looking for someone neat
To take the cumbersome load off her back.

written November 1, 2021...

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Voids within fill, magnetism peaks
Feel soul’s luminescence 
Caress divine, joyous heart seeks
Yearnings of innocence 

Although life still does test 
Ego cravings now rest
Love gets load off our chest

As bliss throbs thrill
Voids within fill

30-August-2021
Quietus

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Within without inside out screaming
The pain is unbearable you beasty twit
If you would just lose a leg or an arm

Crippled down bunched up dreaming
Your back is like a rack of ribs on a spit
Shut off this awful belly juggling alarm

Turn up turn out cantankerous filled brain
Take a damn load off before you faint...

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the first cut may not always be the deepest ~ but it's the bloodiest

take a load off your fannie, Annie ~ but don't put your weight down on me

stumbled over a chair and broke my leg ~ while dancing with my eyes closed

put another dime in the jukebox, baby ~ or the music won't play

keep knock, knock, knockin' on Heaven's door ~ most of us will not call it home...

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Written April 20, 2013


Here comes the night
The moon, slipping through the sun
You're not the only one
On my mind, tonight
The wolves are howling with all their might
To get me a little closer
To get me in their sights

Take a load off
Take off for me
I know we've been moving lately
But it ain't as bad as it seems
Take a load off
Take off for me
This may as well just be a dream...

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My girlfriend goes off the deep end

Each night before bed until dawn

Yakety Yak as I lie on my back

Just trying to stifle a yawn

She complains and tries to explain

And still I don't know what to say

Oh what a quandary, her dirty laundry

Keeps piling up higher each day

I implore, can't take anymore

This burden of yakety Yak

I'm really quite bored, so please help me Lord

To get this load off of my back...

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The clouds shook
A thick, black, very wet blanket out
In the Southeastern quadrant 
Of the New Mexico firmament,
Complete with lightning
And growling, crackling,
Massive basso-profundo sound effects,
Inviting the sun to rest,
Take a load off, 
Reeellaaaxxx! 

Abrasively radiant,
Helios glared a brilliant, heated, passionate,
Steamy smile
Into the arid monsoon skies

And refused Storm’s invitation
To lie down and go to bed...

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L-oad is taken off your mind, 
I-nstead of weighing you down; 
D-ay twelfth sunny October 
E-xempts you from frown. 
M-uss is taken off your mind, 
F-rom your life and heart; 
A-llow the burden to fade to have a brand new start. 

D-ischarge the load off your mind, 
A-llow the mess to disappear; 
N-ight shadows will vanish, 
C-hill will turn into cheer. 
E-arly morn is brought to you, leaving the dark behind; 
L-ight relieves the pain, load is taken off your mind....

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