Best Off Color Poems
An Unfolded Whisper
...~
A lilac endeavor
of promised importance
came strolling along
on a path in the sun
Its fragrance unfurling
this side of September
when springtime was singing
for winter was don......
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Categories:
off color, fun, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
Photos With Glitches On Invisible Wings
...You're a camera obscura, a broken bell's rings,
You made me dance slowly on sad phantom strings.
You always had the slightly off-color touch,
Your insensitive skin never softened up much.
Our m......
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Categories:
off color, perspective, relationship,
Form:
Quatrain
Just Another Day
...~
I gaze at the sunrise,
it’s apricot view
While spending my morning
just thinking of you
It’s glow on the heavens
a magical scene
Of lemonade wishes
and cantaloupe sheen
T......
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Categories:
off color, good morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Blacklisted
...The poet Marshall Mathers
whilst "Cleaning Out My Closet"
blasted with inquiry-
"Have you ever been hated on or discriminated against?
I have...''
Interesting enough
in these crooked times
......
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Categories:
off color, anti bullying, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Alliteration
Yearn
...in faces lined like glaciers
sometimes there's loneliness
that cuts a tow line to safety
air of flux and hostility
over dazed eyes
turbulent modernity
sometimes we yearn for elegance
like a......
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Categories:
off color, anxiety, encouraging, home, life,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked Witches Aren'T the Only Ones Who Melt
...The cry is a teardrop, unheard
Among all the others in a curtain of teardrops.
You stand in the rain that falls out of nothing
The way gray cats move through back street alleys...
The way we learn to......
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Categories:
off color, fantasy, world, cry,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Match Made In Heaven
...My voice
Alive with tone
Yet sharply censored
By a mind's take on years
Of historical notes
Tongue no longer sweetened
By optomism
Or spiced with
Mischievous humor
Suddenly all I taste is......
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Categories:
off color, death, introspection, life, grandmother,
Form:
Narrative
Haiku: Global Warming Montage
...#1
planetary caution
shards of ice slow river’s flow -
wet dreams in winter
#2
pieces float seaward
season’s broken spirit weeps –
humpty dumpty earth
#3
glaciers slide downhill
season......
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Categories:
off color, abuse, life, science,
Form:
Haiku
Don'T Let Them Cast Ceilings!
...A piece of me, forged from molten memories..
of patchwork stability
Changes of scenery....haggard, humble backdrops
Questionable casts of characters...
Scripts written in off-color obscenity ......
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Categories:
off color, inspirational, introspection, life
Form:
Free verse
In True Colors -Anacreontic Verse
...Let us color
the colors
in their right
shades and hues;
Is white, white?
Or, red, green
and blue, too?
Red is red but
Green is not green--
It’s yellow and blue,
As yellow is
red......
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Categories:
off color, color,
Form:
Lyric
Fun Around Town
...I raise my glass up high,
for every bleeding wrist,
and for the times we'll miss.
I hang on till the bitter end.
Like the last bit of flesh,
that clings to a rotting skull.
Feeling fine,......
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Categories:
off color, america, community, emo, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Never Too Old
...Never too old to have some fun
Peddling slowly with shaded eyes
Dressed to be fit in off-color Levi's
A noon-time bicycle ride out in the sun
Loving each other, loving life
So long they've ......
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Categories:
off color, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
We Have a Winner!!
...Yes, indeed, Mr. John Heck is the winner with his answer-"Tulips"; His reasoning
is as follows...Keyboard humor; a somewhat off color joke I've heard, and
apparently, so has John, which goes: Wha......
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Categories:
off color, adventure, computer-internet, nature, on
Form:
Titanic
...Beautifully crafted from end to end
Made even the wealthy squill
An ark prepared to safely swim
Captain Andrews behind the wheel
Remarks were made, degrading God
The very one who crafted......
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Categories:
off color, god, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Higher
...The mighty Oak,Shoots towards the sky,
reaching high with out stretching arms.
Stunted only by heritage, broad shoulders
carry any burden. Slow and low lights burn
the longest. Resended only b......
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Categories:
off color, death, life, lonely, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse