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Best Off Kilter Poems

Below are the all-time best Off Kilter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of off kilter poems written by PoetrySoup members


Cupid Doesn'T Care
Remembering that Valentine’s
Is just an off kilter lie
And love is cruel and hateful
A salted drink splashed in your eye

Perhaps you will live your life
For no...

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Categories: off kilter, confusion, lost love, love,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member What Poetry Alters
You read poetry for the survival that filters through its lines
Poetry that promises healing
          no matter...

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Categories: off kilter, encouraging, inspiration, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Malkavian Three
His glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition

A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome

A brightly...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off kilter, dark, psychological,
Form: Bio
What Is the Altetnative
Life as we know it makes no sense if we have no choice 
So what is the alternative and do we have a voice ?

The...

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Categories: off kilter, america, black african american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Few Things To Consider Before Brown-Nosing In My Presence
1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers 
of virtually any known color!

2) I will make it a point to slap...

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Categories: off kilter, angst, career, corruption, jobs,
Form: Free verse



Creepy Clown
Creepy Clown....

I despise Clowns their so NOT funny
WOULDNT waste my time or hard earned money!
Painted smiles on your fake 
ugly  clown face
Can't hide my...

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© Diana Vee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: off kilter, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Oblivion
6/6/17

Are we part simian?
A centered or off kilter equilibrium
Near or far from the prime meridian
And any kind of amphibian
As well as snowflake obsidian
Items and objects...

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Categories: off kilter, dark, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book of Changes


"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the...

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Categories: off kilter, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Flames Shot Out
Knew of this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher


© Jack...

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Categories: off kilter, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Christmas In the Cathedral of the Forest Deep
"Christmas in the Cathedral of the Forest Deep"




The silent heart is found 
embedded in the 
Cathedral of 
The Forest Deep

The lost jewel
shines in the dark
see...

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Categories: off kilter, christmas, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic
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Unreadable ideograms
Beaten thin leaf to tenuous holds
Of failing parchments
Brittle in their folds of tears

Remember, they struggle for survival
In clasps ever present
Reverberate continual back down...

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Categories: off kilter, childhood, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guests
The guests have come and gone, now back to the old routine.
We showed them all the tourists spots, partook of local cuisine,
Put many miles on...

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Categories: off kilter, humorous, people, old, nice,
Form: Rhyme
A Splendid Spring Day
Beauty fills my eyes on this fine Spring day,
where nothing seems off kilter or amiss,
a breeze tickles tulips until they sway.

Butterflies emerge as though they're...

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Categories: off kilter, appreciation, spring,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Bridges To Nowhere and Between
It seems, I much prefer my dreams
though times of consequence pass fleetingly.
It seems, I know while in those very dreams
of all that passes in between.

Matching...

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Categories: off kilter, angst, confusion, depression, introspection,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Life With Trump Xii
Trump hates hearing from CIA
Can’t stand the things they have to say
So news he'll filter
To keep us off kilter
By singing, "It's a Perfect Day."


Author's note:...

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Categories: off kilter, imagination, music, political, song,
Form: Limerick

Book: Reflection on the Important Things