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 CareRemembering 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, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
malkavian threeHis 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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Categories:
off kilter, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
What is the altetnativeLife 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, humanity, love,
Form:
Dramatic monologue
CREEPY CLOWNCreepy 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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Categories:
off kilter, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Oblivion6/6/17
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 feel, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
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, philosophy, political,
Form:
Free verse
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
No RecommendationNo Recommendation
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
GuestsThe 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, nice, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Heartbreaking DecisionsWalking a tight rope without an umbrella
feet unsure of the next steps to take
heart heavy, mind uneasy, can't look down
equilibrium off kilter, yet still watching...
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Categories:
off kilter, caregiving, father, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Bridges to Nowhere and BetweenIt 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, me,
Form:
Verse
Neutral Milk HotelFleshy, dark, unnervingly beautiful
Slicing through sunshine to bring back the dead
Ghosts of lost souls, bound and immutable
Broken by memories trapped in two heads
Locked in...
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Categories:
off kilter, abortion, beautiful, dark, garden, holocaust, memory,
Form:
Sonnet
Loose StoolsI seethe with livid rage within the bowels of my being
when sitting upon the porcelain goddess ample defecation doth cling
immediately triggering an internal self hatred...
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Categories:
off kilter, anger, angst, body, emotions, grave, health,
Form:
Free verse
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
...
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Categories:
off kilter, giggle,
Form:
Limerick
Framing Moments PastHazy pictures were displayed
Old oaken frames contained them
Hanging slight off kilter right
The walls littered like leaves in autumn lawns
Grandma keeps glimpses of every...
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Categories:
off kilter, family, funny, nostalgiaeaster, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Parallel UniversesHere I don't exist
I am absent from my life
I haunt this hotel
Walls crooked, twisted
Like an old man's spine
Decades off-kilter
The rust and Sharp smells
Entombed in London's...
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Categories:
off kilter, anxiety, dark, gothic,
Form:
Haiku
Died in 2014 - Part 2Don Pardo: Born: 1918-02-22 - Died: 2014-08-18
He’s been gone from SNL
We heard he wasn’t feeling all that well
Don Pardo’s number came around
The Lord was calling...
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Categories:
off kilter, death,
Form:
Rhyme
That Thing for the Center of a 45 RecordWhat is that thing called that used to fit a 45 record in its center hole?
I’m sure I used to know what it was called...
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Categories:
off kilter, funny, nostalgia, age, age,
Form:
Light Verse
life with Trump XIITrump 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
Parallel universesWalls crooked, twisted
Like an old man's spine
Decades off-kilter
Here I don't exist
I am absent from my life
I haunt this hotel
The rust and Sharp smells
Entombed in London's...
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Categories:
off kilter, angst, gothic,
Form:
Haiku
the receiprocity of unconditional loveplease let go
let me provide the blue sky
there may be some cloudy days
i cannot promise you full perfection
please accept with love
let me donate the sunshine
the...
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Categories:
off kilter, appreciation, for her, love, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Once MoreI'm folding paper airplanes
I know will never fly,
Crumple them after
And I'm missing
The basket every time,
I'd say I'm off center;
The earth isn't rotating
The way it...
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Categories:
off kilter, dark, devotion, love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
oldmy sweet, slightly off kilter
my odd, confused self
may not fool anyone, anymore
maybe I should grow up?
but it's worked well for me
in the past
The Past
these lines...
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Categories:
off kilter, life, satire, social,
Form:
ABC
secretsthat hidden place where secrets go
a tiny room only lovers know
latent time where I have no will
a memory that is hard to kill
we dance the...
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Categories:
off kilter, lost lovedance, dance,
Form:
Verse
the MHS Class of '77 chapter two sans to stand proud and tall
(all five and a half feet, but blunted maximum height
...
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Categories:
off kilter, age, celebration, class, education, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Prose Poetry