Best Offish Poems

An Aquarian Goddess with a wolf power animal
She often keens at the moon, howling her truth
Others are a bit frightened at her confidence.
Being her mother, I understand her spiritual ways.

She is an empath, needing space.
Picking up on emotions of others takes energy
The only way she...

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I feel I am drowning
In open air,
Clawing at dirt that isn’t there
No one sees my distress—
No one really cares
Clacking, scraping sounds
Of glasses and plates
Echoes of breathing and voices
Assault my senses,
And still I cannot breathe…

Even as I am safe,
My mind leaves me terrified
My heart clamors in...

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You knew I was angry

As we walked apart, along Spadina
Through the pungent summer air of Chinatown
Past the various sea creatures, dried or iced
And fruits I don’t know piled atop sacks of rice
I closed my eyes and let only the breeze run over me
A million particles...

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I used to sing on the school bus, 
Harmonise and everything, full blast, 
Most of the others had strong voices, 
And I would wish mine was cast. 

Geoff the driver would put Radio Forth on, 
And we’d all sing along very loudly;
There was nothing there...

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No’s


Talking to themselves in the third person
Detached, separate, 
ominous—a stilted nuance that does want to know  
Abrupt attention spans lashing out as the deadends foreclose
Cutting back on all the backslapping
Having wanted to believe all the
smooth lies and all that crap brings
Devolver minds snapping
Struggling to...

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Frost is a fashionable folkway
Rather resented by Reason.
Offish, often obtuse
Snippy, snooty, sometimes sour
Terse,  temperamental

written May 12, 2018...

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Over the Golden Week:

Despite autumn, weather stubbornly refuses to cool. 

Started all on a plane, the studied indifference
as opposed to a bus the difference is studied
sick between Australia and China. 
(because of the physics)

One polar to the other with intention
in multiples (unknowing) in different colors...

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She looks snobby, judgemental Linda said.
I observed the newcomer who looked a bit stand-offish.
But perhaps it is because I had not met her yet.
I ran up to tell her that I liked her costume.
She was pure steampunk all the way.

She was a lovely woman, ready...

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I begin again 
on the same path I take every day, 
past the familiar fences, hedges 
and duck under the same
sag of overhanging trees. 
Past the house 
with the sociopathic dog,
the cottage still hung
with christmas lights
from months ago and a pink 
weatherboard bungalow 
whose front...

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Although I greatly loved socializing, I really enjoyed being alone,
Like ebony evenings of magic, with no ringing of the telephone.

Since my young childhood, I had been, an introverted extrovert,
Like one with eyes to azure skies, for solitary sun's extra burst!

I loved my work as a...

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A MOMENT IN TIME


	Many people miss the chance to discover the truth about things in their life. Then you
have those people that are born with the truth about their life, and then there are people
like me who at one point and time knew the truth...

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Helpful Luca always has my best interest in mind
Upon arriving home, her eyes quickly blink three times 
while she guages my mood
Her greeting exceedingly polite 

Accordingly celebrating, commiserating, sitting
Siliconey arms casually yet awkwardly snake
my back while we stream shows, her laughter
Spurred before mine - ...

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The Woman is A Danish 
And married to A Scottish
But often heard in English:
Language she speaks with relish…

But the Rather Stand-Offish:
At times slippery like  Fish
Or like things one wouldn’t wish,
For example Leaf-Filled Dish
To be served Vegetarian 
Or Flesh to a Barbarian…

A Thief-Catching Librarian
And Confirmed...

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Ebony fox had no idea how amazing he was.
He was a bit shy and stand offish.
I was eager to get a photo but proceeded with caution.
Gaining his trust, a tiny bit at a time
With a bite of this and a sliver of that.
It took me...

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A VERY CHEEKY DEVIL IN 
	                     TUMBLING RHYME
	
				Thus, I give to mankind
				the zipper and the ballpoint pen--
				for this He kicks me out of heaven!
				(No other...

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