Best Oddest Poems
Memories On Branches
...How did a cherry kiss? Bitter flower petals with sweet pistils.
So laden they act as halos while we breathe the love
in a pink hollow, silence sounding like taste, acting like epistle
to hold this......
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Categories:
oddest, age, autumn, home, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Concert
...Drumming along on steering wheel
And dashboard, to rhythm and beats
8-track drowning out giddy squeals,
Till butts plopped down in venue seats.
The buzzing crowd was everywhere
All walks of li......
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Categories:
oddest, adventure, music, people, song,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wise Owl
...I am a white owl,
I listen to people’s scowl,
I turn a deaf ear to a drunk’s howl,
I don’t quench my thirst from your water bowl!
I come out at midnight,
So that, I don’t get to see you fight,
......
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Categories:
oddest, art, beauty, night,
Form:
Bio
Match Made In Heaven
...I stand naked by the mirror
Looking at myself
I look like ummm
Something off a dusty shelf
My ribs stick out
You could play them like a harp
And my eyes bulge out my head
Like a half squeeze......
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Categories:
oddest, funny, husband, love, wifeme,
Form:
Rhyme
I Cannot Word It Best
...Where can I trace this finite feeling,
So that you may see it in its true form?
Upon your heart I would wish it would land,
Yet could my silly hands possibly reach there?
Such an affecting grasp ......
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Categories:
oddest, crazy, longing, love, lust,
Form:
Free verse
I Dream Poetry
...I sit here with a half bottle of
19 Crimes, red
sipping with an agenda
trying to decipher my
dream
from last night
it was the oddest thing
I dreamt in poetry
metapho......
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Categories:
oddest, dream, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Stone
...
When I first laid eyes on him, he was alone.
So very solitary, he was but a stone,
just lying there as if he had been thrown
carelessly to nothingness, a rock that had never shone.......
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Categories:
oddest, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Me? Long.Winded?
...My friend let me share with you,
the secret of what I do,
It really is a mystery,
I have no clue is the truth you see?
It just happens to me.
I ask many questions,
I don't pretend to know,
......
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Categories:
oddest, friendshipwrite, voice, love, voice,
Form:
Scarred Soul
...
Feigned love cut you deep,
left your heart bleeding profusely
Blood red, rose-colored stains,
drip, drip, dripping trail leading out the door ...
time to mop up this mess of a relationship
......
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Categories:
oddest, betrayal, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
How Jay-Bird Got His Name
...Young James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things went down.
See, James was a good boy; he did his......
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Categories:
oddest, boy,
Form:
Ballad
The Proverbial Small Town
...After winning a sweepstakes, I determined to go on a lengthy trip;
And I wanted to tour the mainland, after I had disembarked the ship.
The countryside was quite beautiful, and had myriad charmin......
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Categories:
oddest, animal, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form:
Couplet
On Break
...If heaven is our home
the cosmic realm
where we come from
and return
this would mean…
that by default…
our life here on earth
is actually us
deciding to
take a break
from heaven
now…
is ......
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Categories:
oddest, earth, faith, heaven, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Filling the Ark
...Here come the lions, tigers and bears, oh, my.
I get closer to my mate, feeling we’ll die.
What was this family thinking? Was he sick in the head?
Why was his wife walking around, no fear of being......
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Categories:
oddest, animal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
When a Son Loses His Father
...Now that he's without him
what is he working for
He had never truly realized
His dad drove him to want more
With working came acceptance
replaced emotions he concedes
and his father unavailable......
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Categories:
oddest, death, father, loss, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Fearless Or Foolish
...Life is confusing sometimes
At least it has been for me
I was Mom’s “change of life” baby
two siblings far older
change in the birth certificate
three days spent as Marilyn
then I bec......
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Categories:
oddest,
Form:
Bio