Short Turned Down Poems

Camping in your best gown
There was no request turned down
For the funny clown

By Robb A. Kopp...

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hot humid can hardly breathe
fans are on lights turned down low
clothing sticks to my body -
the heat consumes me...

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Pride
Turned down
Wondering where
Things may have slipped
Looking out
For the icy covenant beneath my feet
I breathe....

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Pride
Turned down
Wondering where 
Things may have slipped
Looking out
For the icy covenant beneath my feet
I breathe...

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Dee said she loved me I was pleased 
She wanted me I was relieved
But Dee let me down
I felt like a clown
Turned down to be a man I peeved...

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Dee said she loved me I was pleased, 
She wanted me I was relieved;
But Dee let me down,
I felt like a clown,
Turned down to be a man I peeved....

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Another bed turned down,
  I sleep between its lines

Dreaming of an empty space,
  wishing in 4-poster rhyme

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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We do not even forget,
and you forgot.
By heart,you cried my heart today.
Why did love us?
For why now turned down.
We do not even forget,
and you forgot....

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Turned down by a Spanish caballero
Rejected by an Egyptian Pharaoh --
   Rosie had real good looks
   But the girl couldn't cook --
Hitched an old bird who ate like a sparrow...

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Sleeping with the sexes
Causes confusion amid the covers
And the sheets are turned down
To allow for clear tunnel vision 
But my eyes remain blurry
And between the time I rub my eyes clear
You’re gone...

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Bang bang
pipes expanding
Kids awaking
an early morning
Turned down the dial
for a peaceful night
An extra hour
no such delight
It made no difference
why did I bother 
I'm still grumpy
just even colder...

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Throughout his life was searching for the truth

But never escaped from ignorance's booth 

Every answer our friend found

In the end it was turned down

So turned to the bottle his pain to smooth! 







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     30 January 2017...

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Inside a large, green, fat book
Was the tale of Budgeron Ferret.
I never read it for the story,
He was far too better than his tale.
Sitting inside that large fat book,
He had always told me one thing:
To never quit, if you’re being turned down,
Until they discover that it’s YOU!...

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it is in the lateness of the hour
the clock ticks the minutes off
you say you will be right back
do a disappearing act
what is up with that?

later, when we're ready for bed
you follow me down the hall
to candles, music and turned down sheets
something that's never been done for me
romance done just right
and it's one hell of a night!...

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struggle for survivalist
houses crumbling
it is row of red mutton on butcher hook
next is you
why cheerup India

family system turned down
houses crumbling
it is row of red mutton on butcher hook
next is you
why cheerup India

right to life,unprotected
houses crumbling
it is row of red mutton on butcher hook
next is you
why cheerup india...

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My fire has burnt out
I can’t find a match to light it
My coals are cold
My flue turned down

No sparks fly from my pipe
Burnt wood in the fireplace
No trees around to cut
The last wood has split

No more hot coco
No more wine
Just a bear skin rug
Laying by a cold fire

This last cord of wood
Has lost it’s harmony
I have lost my Match

I am Matchless...

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Life means love,today I understood it.
When you make love yourself,
That love has turned down.

Why did you love me,
did you even tell me?
In this world of lies,
I have buried my own truth.

The path is right now,
Where is the path I made.
Seeing hate in love,
I did goodbye.
This is the one thing that
I did today.

Life means love,
Today I understood it....

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High on my anger, 
Flowing like lava, 
Rage incarnate, 
Regrets sure to come. 
But who cares, 
You don't, 
If you did this would not be happening, 
All you care about is yourself,
Plain to see by anyone with eyes. 
Actions speak so loud, 
They need turned down. 
Rest in piece,  I hope you don't. 
I hope pain finds you someday, 
And reaches you the way you reached me....

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The first sprouts
unfurl from their hollows

Sniffing the air
Checking for the sweet scent

Of springtime—
Have the turnips

Turned down their
Brown beds? Creased

The topsheet of soil?
Even the dead bell

Ruffles its feathers
Shaking the silvered dew of

Cold mornings off and 
Lets out a note

So pure and confident
Even the slim bears

Stir in their sleep.
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Chastity went to a nudist camp
And wondered why they turned down the lamp
But when she saw Dick
With his wilted wick
She knew at once why the seats were damp!

 Contributed by Belle Bellevue:

Chastity quickly dressed and left the site
Not wanting to be classed “lady of the night” 
At home was a note 
Her sister had wrote, 
“Gone to set the wicks of the world alight”...

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I am a Taxi Driver 
And just pulled up to collect a fare
A young guy came out his house and got in
As I drove off I seen a police car turn around the corner 
And after I turned down the next street
I was boxed in by 2 police cars sirens blaring 
The next thing i know the guy is being arrested
And I am sat wondering what the hell is going on
Apparently he was seen earlier stealing a car
Not my average day...

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Turned down every little desire, 
Image of yourself would remain. 
You don't want to be my esquire, 
Now from sex I'd rather obstain. 

What about screwing me before 
I enter new relationship? 
Too much to ask? I'll ask no more. 
Pen pals... Our acquintanceship 

For better times will be reserved. 
Sucks! Nothing to look forward to. 
Don't know what out there I deserve. 
No love in sight. What should I do?...

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Gramps knows a minister
who collects classic Corvettes.
He rents another garage whenever

he buys another Corvette.
He says his estate will sell the cars 
when he passes away.

The money will go to the poor. 
Gramps knows another minister who 
has turned down a gift of beautiful quilts.

She said give them to Oliver Burns
whose children sleep under blankets 
the sightless can see through.


Donal Mahoney...

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The every relationship gone ary
Causes me to toss, turn, and even cry
I don't sleep anymore
And what for?

Scornful bliss
I am tried of this

Just another lover
That is now just a friend
My broken heart
Nobody can mend

I am not so patient
And do not see
What is really wrong with me

Why do I get turned down so much
Beaten and torn
I walk on one crutch

Moving forward at no speed
Because you were what I truly need...

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Sits there and judges.
How dare you mock me!
Do you think I have time 
to perfect smocked sleeves?
Turned down collars
Frilly blouses
Pleats wrinkle-free.

You are redundant
No longer of use
Except as a doorstop
Or in self-defence.

I will not be cowed
By your flat, grey face.
I glory in chaos,
Crumpled cottons and lace.
I shy from the conservative
Perfectly straight
We will not have flatness
Except on our plates.
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