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Turned On Poems - Poems about Turned On

GIVING WHEN IT HURTS
...True generosity isn’t measured by what we give with ease, but by what we sacrifice in silence, unseen, when the help we offer strips something from us. It’s easy to be generous when nothing is los......

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Categories: turned on, blessing,
Form: Free verse
No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day
...No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day..., not one drop of sweat (especially on hot humid and hazy days) less than a gallon exudes forth from my pores ......

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Categories: turned on, 12th grade, angst, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member easter egg frenzy
...The Easter eggs turned on the baskets in Easter Town. Refusing to get inside, they began to throw themselves down. What is happening? Asked a chick, a rooster, and an ugly clown. They are going cr......

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Categories: turned on, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member YOLANDA NICHOLSEN TOOK HER OWN LIFE TODAY
...GRAVEYARD NIGHTMARE YOLANDA NICHOLSEN TOOK HER OWN LIFE TODAY AFTER DECADES OF ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS EXTORTION OF HER AMERICAN POETRY EMBEZZLEMENT OF HER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY CLAIM SHE HAS ENDURED......

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Categories: turned on, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member EAST COAST JAZZ
...Yo. From a whisper, barely a breath, to a front-page roar/ EAST COAST JAZZ in the fifties, sixties/ Not just blowing trumpets, but blowing up the jazz scene jazz/ LPs stacked high vinyl spinnin......

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Categories: turned on, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CONTINUES
...MY PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS MY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION STEMMED FROM MY WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM JUNK SICK COPS BECAUSE ......

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Categories: turned on, allah,
Form: Naat
Pig on a Spit
...Walking down York Avenue, A very urban block, An odor had my senses piqued And then I saw, in shock, In front of a local restaurant A pig turned on a spit. With juices dripping down, it someh......

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Categories: turned on, new york, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scripture Stranger
...In the Biblical landscape of rebirth earth whispered footsteps steaming forward with friendship From a stranger with an unknown smile Throughout the unfolding fields and whispy wildflowers the sk......

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Categories: turned on, destiny, friendship, god,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member National Poetry Month
... My heart with such dread is reeling. I’m looking up at the ceiling. Something’s there though it’s something I can’t see. I felt it first when it went right through me. I shivered<......

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Categories: turned on, fear, house,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Seance
... “The Seance” It was macabre you see, we were all summoned, and therefore found ourselves in the front parlour of Ballylee; In our dreams we thought we were poets ......

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Categories: turned on, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member For The Memory
... Your tops on the line hanging down Swaying gently in the coolness of breeze The evening comes in its violet gown Darkening the lawn and the leaves You turned on the light, it reflects outside ......

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Categories: turned on, beauty, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Little Stacy
...There's a house, enormous and aimless. But there's a mural on the wall that's shameless. It shows a little girl In her dress that twirls, Crazy though she seems. In her eyes, hurt beams. Her fa......

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Categories: turned on, anger, angst, dad, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH AMERICAN HEARTBEATS
...COPING HEALING SURVIVING MENTAL ILLNESS IN AMERICA IT DIDN'T START OFF THIS WAY GOD KNOWS I DIDN'T ASK FOR I WAS SUFFERING IN SILENCE MASKING DEPRESSIVE DISORDER MASKING PTSD TRIGGERS ANXIETY DISORDE......

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Categories: turned on, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Chilterns
...Chilterns - a naïve melody Let’s go to Chilterns to see what it’s like While the weather is fine Call me and note if you turned on the mike Let’s picnic down on the hillside Show me the path......

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Categories: turned on, dream, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Called It Adoption
... (From the novel: The Truth About Make-Believe by Mickey Grubb) Standing in the middle of the rear seat, the tiny legs moved quickly from side to side to keep the rest of the body up......

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Categories: turned on, confusion, emotions, fear, imagery,
Form: Narrative

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