Best Eccentric Poems

Open eyed, long tearless, foul silvered orbs
have you no pity? The aqua tide rides dry.
Blind staring scorches, accusing twin barbs
who burrow inward, a destiny to decry.

Scattered rendering, puzzled pieces aligning;
"Please mercy has a place, why can't I cry?"
Remove the cataract veneer, stop my pining
"Have you...

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There's a poet named...Eileen
Who's sweet but sure can get mean
So don’t cross her path
Or you’ll taste her wrath
Just tell her, “You are...the QUEEN!”

She tries so hard all to please
You'll get her if you just tease
She is dynamite
Can set you “alight”
She might...your trigger just squeeze!!

She loves...

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Sitting by the window, watching the life go by...
I tried to lean on my dreams, but they all have left me high n' dry.

Hope is gone now, so I say farewell my dear, 
But we will meet once again, someday, somewhere.

And time is fading away,...

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You say you want to marry me, 
But how on earth could that be,
You say that I’m the one for you,
Know naught about you, have no clue,
You say we’ll travel far and wide,
With you forever by my side,
You want to take me to the moon,
You...

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If you don't have a garden,
You can still cultivate your eccentricities without pardon.
It is not that hard, 
Even if you have no yard.

As long as you have a book,
You can achieve that eccentric look,
Without money in the bank,
Or petrol in the tank.

Eccentricities will grow inside...

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eccentricity
defines chihuahua hairy....
hikes everywhere now
heart disease kills our small dogs
congenital defect ~me   


I learn almost 10 years ago that I have a congenital heart defect plus a tumor in the wall of my heart. I now have the third dog dying with...

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Oh my greasy granny
With her little fanny
Boobs hung like boulders
That weigh down her shoulders

Her tummy wiggles like jelly
When she’s light and jolly
She dances a little wildly
With her music blasting loudly

Singing jazzy jingles
As she passes and she mingles
Doing the bump and grind 
While wagging he behind

Sleeping...

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1.	Abolish Mints
2.	Abut Mints
3.	Accomplish Mints
4.	Accouter Mints
5.	Acknowledge Mints
6.	Ada Mints
7.	Adjust Mints
8.	Admonish Mints
9.	Adorn Mints
10.	Advance Mints
11.	Advertise Mints
12.	Agree Mints
13.	Ail Mints
14.	Align Mints
15.	Announce Mints
16.	Annul Mints
17.	Apart Mints
18.	Appease Mints 
19.	Appoint Mints
20.	Arma Mints
21.	Argu Mints
22.	Arrange Mints
23.	Assess Mints
24.	Astonish Mints
25.	Atone Mints
26.	Attain Mints
27.	Banish Mints
28.	Battle Mints
29.	Befuddle Mints
30.	Bereve Mints
31.	Better Mints
32.	Bewilder Mints
33.	Blandish Mints
34.	Command Mints
35.	Com Mints
36.	Commit Mints
37.	Compli Mints
38.	Condom Mints
39.	Confine Mints
40.	Constrain Mints
41.	Contain Mints
42.	Content Mints
43.	Defer Mints
44.	Defile...

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Eccentric kook's reasonable rhyme zigzags

Doggone poet laureate
wannabe his index finger wags
nonverbally naysaying those,
who doubt mine posthumous
fame and fortune, which snags
eternal renown within pantheon
of storied writers such foolhardiness nags
yours truly keeps bad company with hags
unemployed day after Halloween,
whose outsize egos deflate
analogous to activated airbags.

Apology in order...

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He was known as an eccentric; 
Saving all of those bolts in a bucket 
and for what?
No one really knew, except himself.

He kept numerous old jugs and cartons 
around the house, 
as if they were valued treasures.
Old string and ropes that he’d saved, 
were tied...

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A weird old woman loved cats
And outlandish broad-rimmed hats
Why should we think it odd
The old dame is quite mod,
Why she even dines with her bats.


written, Winter 1972
edited June 29, 2021
[first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972;
republished in By-Line, Summer, 1989]...

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eccentric she was
socially awkward
somewhat paranoid
with bizarre twitches
not mixing in
an outcast 
of her own doing
a square peg
in a round hole
not fitting in



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

posted on September 11, 2018...

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We never knew She-Fee really. She was our cousin, but
She was banished practically the first time my parents saw her.
Strange my father pronounced almost immediately.
My mother was horrified by her command of adults.

We were drawn to She-Fee for she was full of clever silliness.
She had...

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Oh, from what demented mind was born
A thing so pointless as a lawn?

Surely some old eccentric lord
In a mansion, born both rich and barmy,
Who could so lavishly afford
A mighty artful minion army
Of sowers of seed and pullers of weed
Of mowers of grass and spreaders of...

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Gustavo’s Rite

He walked onto the harbor beach at sunset,
planting a small net on a pole like a guidon,
and setting soiled cloth bags around it.
Alone on the beach he began his dance.
Mismatched clothes flapping, he swayed,
then paced, then crouched to pat the sand
into a crescent, then...

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