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Shut Off Poems - Poems about Shut Off

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

Premium MemberLightening

...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



Premium MemberIn 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

Premium MemberWords We Cannot Escape

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“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

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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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberA 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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