Best Off Hand Poems

there dwells a darkness in us all
          those shadows trembling faintly
               to give our dearest debt its pall
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Enter the arena
Buckle down


Ready?
Set?
Kill!

A gong sounds
We're off

The Hunger Games have begun!

Blades of swords and knives crash
Arrows whizzing.

Run. run, run
Away from the cornacopia!

Blood splatters, staining the earth
Bodies splayed on the ground

Some survive
Others die right off hand

Only one left to be the VICTOR!
Welcome to The Hunger Games!!!!

This...

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It’s an open ended kind of life;
I know not where I go.
I hold you close inside my heart; 
I know you’re in the show.

I see behind me clear as day, 
but forward dark as night.
I know I love you come what may, 
but there is...

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Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes for which to contend
Michael and Carolyn were shocked to learn
Their mother wanted cremation as her end
No way was...

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Christmas Day has arrived; the thought fills me with such dread
For over twenty years they’ve come to me; it's doing in my head!

I get up at the crack of dawn to get the turkey in the oven
Gran moans about my cooking – she belongs in...

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A Soldier's Story of A Tale

Had Raymond, and I not ever met
By some old and tethered Ancient Inn
We should have sat down and probably set
Besides an eccentric novelty of bumperkin

But inside the open ranges thus the infantry
Has faced many a demonic faces of a face
A...

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When we were kids we used to climb trees,
Get grubby hands; scrape the skin off our knees.
We jumped in deep puddles and made big mud pies,
But what you said next made me shudder inside.

You sat in the sun; I sat in the shade,
With mum’s homemade...

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In our lives filled with lofty goals,
We may reach for much beyond our means,
And as interest is piqued and grows,
We sell wisps of notions as our pipe dreams, 

Yet while news breaches concerned factions,
Of those who would off-hand discount our plan,
You may well consider these...

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There's a legion of doc-ologists to keep us on our feet.
A glance in the telephone book reveals a list complete!
Seems there's an "ologist" to care for us from head to wiggly toes,
Prodding, poking and dosing to ease our miserable woes!

Praise the Lord for geront-ologists who...

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"Bold" was all I could think about his plan
To just go fishing and not go to school
Brilliant was what it was - on or off hand -
All who saw it that day thought it was cool

Worms was what was lacking - and that was all
So...

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The rage builds from within, and the rain follows.

A celebration, for one friend, of a new age, a new day - 
from whence the trouble came, I'm all too afraid I know.
Despite what some of the drunkards and movies say,
ale will not destroy what ails...

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“Hey, Jack, I’m so pleased to meet you.
For years now I’ve been fascinated by the dangerous
situations you find yourself in everywhere you go.”

“Thanks, man, I've had quite an incredible life, indeed!”

“I look forward to your latest adventure each year.”

“Well, it takes Lee Child that long...

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It was over in Brooklyn,
No, not a Met’s game.
God forbid that.
“The world was, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.”
In which the first man jumped.

It was all over really, 
That 12 million people were out of work, 
There were already poor...

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Welcome to where I stand or sit
Mostly the latter to be real
In my twilight, or golden years
Where the land of old man's the deal

My retirement is impending 
But in the land of old man you'll see
The "Golden" years of retirement
Aren't all they're cracked up to...

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Enter the Arena

Buckle down

 

Ready?

Set?

KILL!

 

A gong sounds

We're off

 

The Hunger Games have begun!

 

Blades of swords crashing

Arrows whizzing

 

Run,run,run

Away from the cornacopia

 

Blood splatters,staining the earth

Bodies splayed on the ground

 

Some survive

Other die right off hand

 

Only ONE left to be the victor

Welcome to...

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