Short Turn Out The Lights Poems

The moon shines down on a dune
Where a wolf has started to croon
For a female fights
To turn out the lights
Which are known to wrinkle a prune!...

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Unwind

Turn out the lights
Release your mind
Make all alright
Totally unwind
Let your body ease
Free your soul
Imbibe the peace
That makes you whole...

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She was gazing into the distance as her, cat whom had ate his canary ?
Father Merrin, lying gray and cold about, departed's floor:  epic's, revival...
Hysteria stiking it's note she held no cloak while Damien, grasped her throat....

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Lock the doors,
pull the shades,
close the blinds and
draw the curtains.
Hide the kids
in the tub,
turn out the lights,
do not breathe
and be
very, very quiet.
Up the street
comes a neighbor
holding a
brown paper bag.

Zucchini...By Charlie Knowlton....

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So silly we are – 
We, the races of peoples...
seeking what is already
found, apparent: Dark Matter?
Turn out the lights. God? See
ourselves and the vastness around
us, both near and far. Nothing
is missing but our own explanation – 

learn ourselves
and meet a universe.......

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At first the time seem perfect.  Everything seem alright when u think it comes to 
the best some one has to turn out the lights.  Now the tables have turned and 
this is what I have learned.

"Something's in life are going to be a disappointment so don't always keep your 
hopes up"...

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Tragedy in black

My vision has turned black,
All I have is no more.
Turn out the lights,
And  close the door.

My obsession has left me,
Lifeless on the floor.
Blood flows from my veins,
I long to live no more.

Jealousy requires passion.
Passion requires life.
Life requires the soul.
My soul at the end of a knife.


9/8/15...

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Lay your hands on me!
Goodness forging thru!
Good versus evil!
Turn out the lights!
Lets make him right!
So much pain!
Take this life!
Nothings in vain!
Restore balance!
Rest for a spell..

Heaven or Hell?

Send him home!
Now on his own.
Send love!
New beginning!
Lessons learned!
Never forget!
Be well!
Never forget your,
 Heaven or Hell...

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On this warm December night there's something strange in the air.
There's something familiar and tragic in her cold, dead stare. 
It's as if something is about to happen... Maybe good or bad... 
There's an element of brevity to the long day... 
A hint of sanity in the mad...
As I turn out the lights and put away this day, I wonder what will happen if I go or I stay......

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I draw my smiles with Sharpie
And avoid hand sanitizer. 
Its bitter taste-
Cleansing-
Healing-
Burns the facade I’ve built.
I’ve painted my confidence
Across the boarded windows of my body.
I wear my sensuality
Like the makeup smeared on my cheeks:
As armor.
The sun’s shadow masks my flaws
But as you turn out the lights
You find them all again
With the sweep of your fingertips.
12/6/17...

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I want to see the clash of the classes

The dichotomy between the debutantes and the downtrodden 

wallow in the welfare 
 scream at those who don't care

soak up society
 revel in the rivalry

 step on the suited 
 smile at the smart

 vilify the antagonists 
 snore at the soporifics

 bleed in the gutter
 be saved by another

 turn out the lights
 smile at the night

 experience the extremes
of a midnight's dream

By Robert McDermott...

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The Markets Are Down.


Banish the hubris,
Toss away the choice words
Spoken by rotten, broken tongues.
Silence the chorus of appalled shock.

Shred the sermons,
Burn down the gory edifices:
The churches, mosques, temples
And the muted Gods they mock.

Drain the sewage.
Flush away the insidious odour
Seeping up from malls, homes, carnivals.
Put it in a closet and weld the key in the lock.

Shut it all off.
Turn out the lights.
Pull the damned plug.
But hold on to that blue-chip stock....

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