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Premium Member A Little Off Kilter
Jolly old Happy Jack enjoys all the notoriety
Adds much spice to life and gives it variety
Never once said
I have a level head
A little off kilter but surely no scourge on society...

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Categories: off kilter, happy,
Form: Limerick
Sun Off Kilter Tanning The Wheat
Sun off kilter tanning the wheat—
The crows broke into her cold fast,
As breeze stir dropped its sweetness by
The dark golden, her soupy flesh.

From childhood not cooling like
The sun off kilter tanning the wheat
Comes a girl's faithfulness on skin—
The atmosphere for pressing heat.

A sweat thaw on...

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Categories: off kilter, angst, bird, dark, introspection,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Off Kilter
Do we ever get to expose the real person inside?
When the layers of sub diversion and control create our disguise.

Do we ever stop toning and shaping our feel of what’s wrong or right?
So many interpretations we are forced to yield darken our skies.

Do we ever...

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Categories: off kilter, age, appreciation, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Off kilter
Off kilter

Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered) 
urge to shtup
expunged courtesy 
system of a down
with shuga (mush)
and everything nice.

	The following crafted some time ago,
when empty nest syndrome 
pulled me psyche taut 
analogous to an outstretched bow
yet the shadow of mine eldest 
of two adult...

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Categories: off kilter, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry