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Premium Member ASKEW
In the hollow of my chest resides a void Where the seats recline a whispered voice Is heard in time. When echoes once danced Now silence abides. In the backseat of the past The pulse of life Is heard When the cars go by a distant muted drum In this empty realm Numb shadows come No one stirs I couldn’t feel The quiet deep No...

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Categories: askew, absence, addiction, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the heights of despair, where light falls askew
On the heights of despair, where light falls askew, I rise through the abyss of thoughts as through a dream, The whole world is an absurd song, without meaning, And yet, behold, my foes, the mountains do not laugh, And the worms, silent, do not sing, only I, solitary, Watch as illusions dance on stage, Dressed in garments of clouds and...

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Categories: askew, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew. Ah... what luxury to wax poetic as freedom to trumpet thoughts, ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane, especially if president number forty five courtesy wealth and/or stealth dons the mantle as de facto fractious tyrant of these United States come November 5th, 2024 methinks perchance mankind always vain n'er did appertain moral hike polar opposite from...

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Categories: askew, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bent Askew
Bent askew, with shadow straight as a die reflecting my every move and mood I dwelt upon the hidden grace of being bent. For curved things are strangely stronger than straight things, so rare in nature. So prone to shatter to pick-up-sticks, straight bits when compliant and inflexible. Fearing the wind will turn you into a statue if you flap, furl, curl and...

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Categories: askew, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Her Halo All Askew
No butterflies at Christmas time, you and I know why they'd freeze their wings and wouldn't stand a chance inside this wintry Palace of snow and fanfare glow. But little Suz with her happy trails of dreams galore asked Santa for a butterfly, she wanted nothing more. One with summer wings that could dart, flit,...

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Categories: askew, appreciation, fairy,
Form: Rhyme



Slightly Askew
Looking out to the horizon The warmest colors, the sun setting just past the water And yet all I see is a line, slightly askew Is it me? Is it the world around me? Why do I feel disoriented? My heart races Frustrated, I adjust my own posture I study the horizon and begin to speculate There's a problem in front of me...

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Categories: askew, sunset,
Form: Free verse
A Bit Askew
writing something new just a bit askew asking for the given taking each strike with a smile taste nothing but bile numb comes after the pain madness masquerades as the sane i took a tear and placed it in a box buried it in the deepest loch took a sigh and pushed it in a balloon sent it to the moon took a broken heart and ripped my life...

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Categories: askew, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...? Methinks perchance man kind always vain n'er did appertain moral hike polar opposite from human being: uncivil, unethical, unsocial, et cetera minimally app proxy mating, neither didst faithfully abide as citizen Kane externally -...

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Categories: askew, america, death, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse
An Askew Life
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk with his parents his father would shout not to walk on the edge of the sidewalk and in grammar school the nuns would get upset because he didn’t always write between the lines and at jobs after college despite...

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Categories: askew, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Nebula Askew
If I were an astronomer, a follower of Papa Galileo through th'expanding years, I should be less confounded by that vortex in the sky first spotted when a learned bro peeked through his viewing lens. "Our home" he said, "is bigger than we thought!" and thus he kicked the boot of Italy into a cosmic ocean where galactic islands drift, defying that old wader of its terra, no longer firm-a ("oh, let's asee my fren; we play...

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Categories: askew, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Billowing Askew
Apricot marmalade wispy clouds upon the blue canvas, swiftly changing sunrise reveals a surprise_ charcoal gray, a textured smoke billowing askew across the eastern sky, Suddenly diamond dew drops fall upon grasses, Everything expressed anew as the sun rises, the moon bidded adieu, this day will pass; tomorrow, too Apricot marmalade wispy clouds upon the blue Sponsor: Rick Parise Contest: Enjambment I know...

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Categories: askew, change,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Askew
Soul Askew the greed for power, money too, rich think they are better, due, halos slip, slip-slides askew, self serving, self deletes, self judges, self repeats, next time on sorrows street, reborn, the ever whining meet, the self bought, humble stew, ironic its not new, subtle ends, an sour deceit, parasitics, souls defeat, starvation conquers you, does the lesson educate, or is it pointless too, why we suffer,...

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Categories: askew, adventure, self, self,
Form: Rhyme
Askew
sheets of light from times that’ve passed & (patterns of events that try to circumvent) clichés dancing ‘pon the looking glass (original overcast clouds placing bets upon the rent) where places drift along the sea (introverted romantic something somethings being labeled criminal) as Dali’s clocks did drip & tease & (whilst the hoity-toity high society harlequins are dubbed seminal) from the...

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Categories: askew, life,
Form: Free verse
Slightly Askew
Lately it appears As if something is missing That spark's not quite there Have you started dismissing By becoming increasingly distant Are you growing immune At an inopportune moment Unfortunate events Are now putting dents Causing you to lament All the time that's been spent Your abandonment issues Manifest malcontent Presenting the case That resent will torment It's odd Your demeanor is this incomplete Are their things going on That have led...

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Categories: askew, confusion, life, love, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Geese Squawking Askew
. Geese squawking askew ...

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Categories: askew, animals, life, nature, on
Form: Haiku

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