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Best Off Base Poems

Below are the all-time best Off Base poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of off base poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Plight
THE  PLIGHT
I never cease to ponder at the turmoil in my life 
Though I feel my soul is peaceful it is manifest in strife...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off base, philosophy, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eve Tmm
Eve T.M.M. is a sweet Canadian gal
A product of the wild wild west
Living between Edmonton and Calgary
Imagine as a cowgirl she's dressed

Riding frisky stallions and...

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Categories: off base, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Thunder
The rumbling of thunder
From some bowlers in the sky
Makes me shudder, gape and wonder
Why we tell our kids that lie.

Does it reassure them, thinking
All that...

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Categories: off base, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Farewell George
Farewell George
No warm wishes here
Gone is your reign of feeding on fear
No more incompetent good 'ol boy antics
So long to your off-base far-right fanatics
Actually... unfortunately...they're...

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Categories: off base, politicalfamily, family,
Form: Free verse
A Toddler
A toddler in a stroller passed
And, looking at her face,
It seemed to me that she was
Merely staring into space.

Which made me wonder – could it...

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Categories: off base, child,
Form: Rhyme



The Easter Egg Hunt
I don't know how it started

But it's an annual event

But I don't think that an egg hunt

Is the best way to present

The story of our...

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Categories: off base, candy, chocolate, easter, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sauropod Survivor Saviors (Co-Written With James Fraser)
Shh! Scientists can't find us, only natives know
Sauropods survived when dinosaurs went extinct
Cameroon people have spotted us many times
Please help us hide!  Our species'...

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Categories: off base, allegory, animals, history, mysteryafrica,
Form: Quatrain
Harvey Wall-Bangers
HARVEY WALL-BANGERS


Having a good time drinking Harvey Wall-bangers
Always watching out on how much I drink
Reaching into an unknown realm of alcohol
Very tempting this drink can...

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Categories: off base, life, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic
Omego
She's my omego, yeah I'm talking about (Linda)  p,d
Don't you know?, I always love reading your poetry
Ok we have never met and we just...

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Categories: off base, tribute, love, me, ,
Form: Rhyme
In the Midst of It
Let me tell you a true story.
Hopefully to show God’s power and His glory.
Two army buddies, friends that went A.W.O.L.
Absent without leave a military crime,...

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Categories: off base, faith, inspirational, war, care,
Form: Rhyme
Uncommonly Special
`There’s always that one 
Who’s a wee bit different
The one who marches 
to a different drum

There’s always that person
Who seems indifferent
Not to all things in...

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Categories: off base, discrimination, humanity, introspection, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Weatherman Predicted
The weatherman predicted
That today would reach a high
Of eighty-five degrees; I never
Thought that he would lie.

I didn’t take a jacket and
My sockless feet are bare.
I’m...

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Categories: off base, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Meditation On 'Giving In God's Will'
I could be way off base, but I think that ‘Control’
and ‘Graced Giving’ are opposites, poles that can’t meet
in a space with dimensions, where sanity...

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Categories: off base, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Wonderful Grace
The Wonderful Grace

	

One is on a scheduled pace
While the other wanders off in space 
Organized is one that’s faced
With all the clutter caused in haste	

One...

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© Bill Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off base, change, conflict,
Form: I do not know?
Flight and Crystalean Visors Bronze To Blue
Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS LAM HSI ANDRESS
(Chinese, Vietnamese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Lithuanian...
'Three-DNA' Tests Show!)(Currently...Six Feet and Two Inches Tall...on...

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© Thomas Hsi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off base, age, angel, anger, art,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things