Best Off Key Poems
Off-Key
Francis Scott Key ...
a song provocateur, who spoke
most ungentlemanly
Scott “Don’t set ‘em Free”
had to be
the most rabid racist
you never wanted to meet
Francis the Talking Mule
wrote a rousing anthem of war
Liberty for poor black souls like me,
wasn’t what it was written for
That patriotic song...
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Categories:
off key, perspective, slavery, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Off Keydoes it really count
if we're in the wrong line?
lousy choices get no discount
only angles which won't align
drifting off course
placing bets on the wrong horse
a singer singing out of tune
trumpet solo played on bassoon
ahead of my time
always swimming upstream
now gone well past prime
caught up in the...
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Categories:
off key, culture, perspective, repetition, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Off KeyArt
uncaged-
musical
monuments in
paint
Cge Painting Cycle by Gerhard Richter
http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/6380/cage-6-paintings-by-gerhard-richter...
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Categories:
off key, art, music
Form:
Ekphrasis