Best Off Course Poems

*P - Pegasus
O - Other horses

Pegasus, 
the winged horse
Olympus
flew off course
Stallion
horse that's male
land in
a grassy dale
horses
came up to him
sources
to say his name

P - Pegasus.
forwards a pony
addresses
O - Sounds Greek to me.
P - It should be,
P - I am from Greece,
P - by the Aegean Sea.

now all at peace.
P - But before I go home,
P -...

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Isn’t in nice,
Sometimes,
To veer off course,
Look behind,
And watch it crumble
At your feet?...

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Source of Remorse Being Off Course

What really did seem to be the source,
Of so much sadness filled with remorse,
That appeared;
Always feared;
When riding horse and being off course.

Jim Horn...

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In God’s own world, kind and humane once,
bullets rip through the dreaming buds, 
blood flows with the color of innocence,
the flowers of promise never bloom.

Terror breeds in the fanatic hearths,
dislocated minds mutilated by despicable instinct
turn into executor of targeted destruction,
chosen randomly from ominous list of insane caprice.

Morality defaced by indolent intolerance, 
understanding disintegrates into abhorrence.
Empathy...

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storm, weight of rain sloshes
o’er the sides of the acrylic tub
thunder of strobe, eyes blinking
slashes of screams, disaster —
utterance of lips, gutteral
door jammed, eye to eye contact
with the lion and lamb; the owl
on heights of despair interrogates,
scrutinizes, eyeballs the blood seas,
sees all, inspects your history,
his and his too, talons tapping.

outside the storm-beset sanctuary 
enlightenment, smoky...

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On a plane flying to Vancouver,
An odd lady said that I knew her,
I was just flabbergast,
After years now at last,
My wife of forty is much cruder....

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Off course...on course

There are times when I fall
Times when I stall
Times when nothing seems to go right at all

Times when I go backward
At least am standing still
Times when I feel broken
Like rolling down the hill

And then in an instant 
Love comes flying in
Comes with a message of recovery
Comes to take away my sin

And in that...

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Forever Lost and Way Off Course

Through cemetery had ridden my horse
All we found there was much remorse;
Stared at and would reach each name,
And to who should be given the blame;
Where forever lost and way off course.

Jim Horn

End of the End...

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Past life ghosts they drift and creep
spread their bile on those who sleep
cold as ice with no soft side 
For mud bound stains dug so deep



Poem entered on Poetry Soup March 17/2020.

Let The Pens Flow  -  Jueju Poetry Contest 

Sponsor : Jenish Somadas...

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go back 
finish up 
what was 
once started
long ago
travel backwards 
down the path 
till you come 
upon the point 
at which the path 
begin to veer off 
course 
this time around 
do it right 
cause there will
not be a twentieth
chance at this...

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Just as the wind has come about
And it's time to change tack;
There's a new hand on the tiller
Of the mutinous, rudderless boat;
Now doomed to float aimlessly,
Until it arrives at an uncharted port
Its cargo spoiled, wasted, ruined....

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With Remorse and Off Course

On one evening  was much remorse;
Hillary had lost after being off course;
Sharpened claws,
With many  laws;
Of sin, Trump became his own source.

Jim Horn...

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