The Adventure
...It's raining outside, but l don't mind
lets put on the music, and a glass of wine
lets shut the door, lets shut off the world
yes , you say, let's put on the music, girl
we'll have a music day...
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Categories:
shut off, husband, music, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Lightening
...Lightening illuminating the sky
It’s beautiful yet gives a fright
Going to shut off my pc
Hoping it won’t shock me
Thundering a sound that booms
Effecting me jumping across room
Neon night with...
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Categories:
shut off, bird, god, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
In This Golden Cage
...In Secret Caverns, we harken to the darkness.
Our headlamps’ shut off, we are anywhere,
we are everywhere, it doesn’t matter where.
No matches, no breeze, no breath to strike
up the light, no...
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Categories:
shut off, introspection, silence,
Form: Verse
Is God is watching?
...God is watching you. He is watching me
Whether you are a believer or godless
He is ringing the dinner bell, come home
Heaven's table is crowded with the dead
Stay away a little longer to make roo...
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Categories:
shut off, addiction, angst, child, faith,
Form: Free verse
Foreign Exchange
...I planned futures with you,
but your happiness came first.
When anger calls, you shut off
I must stay composed,
must communicate,
must hold it all together.
Smile. Talk nice.
The bare minimu...
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Categories:
shut off, betrayal, courage, history, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
Remember that Starlight and Stardust is Forever
...Inspired by our Divinity. Keep shining. Be your authentic self.
Remember that Starlight and Stardust is Forever
By Michelle Morris
17/03/2025
You and I were created
From Starlight and Sta...
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Categories:
shut off, encouraging, inspirational, soulmate, stars,
Form: Free verse
Words We Cannot Escape
...
“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed n...
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Categories:
shut off, muse,
Form: Free verse
SOS
...Say something;
your silence scars my skin,
shatters my soul,
strains my skull,
stretches out my suffering and
snowballs my syndrome.
Out loud;
your opinion is not obvious,
openness not opt...
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Categories:
shut off, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda in English Translations including 'Religion in the East'
...These are English translations of Spanish poems by Pablo Neruda.
Religión en el Este (“Religion in the East”)
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
for Tom Merrill
I realized in...
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Categories:
shut off, death, earth, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
No More Mess
...Depleted...is all I can say,
From every ounce of abuse and pain,
To the point where you wanna shut off any negative existence,
You want to hide from the battle and keep your distance,
You find pe...
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Categories:
shut off, blessing, deep, emotions,
Form: Light Verse
Driving Down Memory Lane
...
I was drivin’ down an old, worn black-top highway, on my way to a funeral. It was mid-Missouri, and late summer made it hotter’n the dickens outside. I was thinkin’ there was only a couple of hou...
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Categories:
shut off, friendship, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Tears of soul
...I want to cry away my soul
Slowly and painful
I want to feel every drop
When it's touching the floor
I want each tear that drops
to be every minute till moment ago
I want it to be slow and ...
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Categories:
shut off, anxiety, conflict, cry, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Andromeda Strain Part II: ILMO - my son
...Dr. Mark Hall undertook the task of unarming the rigged satellite there in the secluded part of the lab. He is trapped in a section that, due to an oversight, has no substation. He must navigate Wild...
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Categories:
shut off, mystery, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Let The Pills Kill You Instead Of The Humans’
...{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside,
Sent electrical shocks through her body,
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would...
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Categories:
shut off, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
A Christmas Fantasy a song
...[verse]
The only thing
I want for Christmas
is you
Can you wrap
yourself in a bow
and deliver too?
Show up at my door
special ordered
late night delivery
and we can unwrap
each o...
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Categories:
shut off, christmas, holiday, romance,
Form: Lyric
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