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Best Offset Poems

Below are the all-time best Offset poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of offset poems written by PoetrySoup members


Spider Songs
Blades of grass, wet under foot, insect eyes  
Dusk, offset by the cricket orchestra 
Muted and receding into the trees and bushes,
Tickled by the...

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Categories: offset, animal, girl, metaphor, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Blanket of Love
Two hearts emotionally tethered to each other
fear which one death may choose to visit first.
And as time passes, sadness swells
within their hearts thinking about it....

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Categories: offset, anxiety, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sienna in Season
I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.

I worked...

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Categories: offset, autumn, beautiful, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Vale of Tears
She walks along an avenue
some call the Vale of Tears.

Her agonies and sorrows brew
in eyes that vail her tears.

She whiles alone, her gaze unmet,
behind a...

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Categories: offset, hope, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dusk
As dusk dims a cobalt sky,
stars unveil their timid light.
And a sanguine sun feigns death
as shadows morph into night.

Clouds gather into a shroud
edged in magenta...

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Categories: offset, beauty, imagery, nature, night,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Gift of This Eve
One enchanted evening
I followed Luna’s moon,
as She guided my ship
to a secret lagoon.

In a golden ocean
buffed to a mirror sheen,
I spied the sexiest
mermaid I'd ever...

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Categories: offset, beautiful, emotions, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
The Choice of Bonny Aileas
Through shadowed forest glade she rode
'Midst grey and gloomy chill
No single thought of safety did
A moment stay her will

The mist clung to her nostrils as
She...

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Categories: offset, adventure, history, love, passion
Form: Narrative
The Stars Only Cry At Night
My love has gone to a distant dawn
For the stars only come out at night
In a soulful song my will pulls along
Whispers weeping in the...

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Categories: offset, love, stars,
Form: Rhyme
In the Mirror's Eyes
Alas, death sets in
The bitter cold at night
The chills that haunt my soul
Creeping in like a virus
It makes no sound
But in your heart
It always will...

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Categories: offset, inspirational, lifelost, lost, love,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Gets Bold
Spring shifts a bright sky
into streaks of gray,
in it's own unpredictable way.

The daffodils are weakening
storm damaged, they struggle
to blow their leaky yellow trumpets.

Warm days still...

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Categories: offset, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Brains Look Like On the Inside
I don't like this feeling
It's inner turmoil
I have stuff to do today so no time
But I'd quite appreciate a minute to scream into the abyss
Then...

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Categories: offset, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edvard Munch, The Woman and the Bear
"show me your face"
growls subside upon revelation 
does your countenance veil mine?
I see beyond sight and temporality 

still full of sorrow, though drawn in
indisputably realised...

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Categories: offset, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Train Smoke - Edvard Munch
Hill sides
Sides at all
Distances
Perspectives skew them
Maybe I'm sat here looking out
Or sat within imagining out
Because out is where we drift
I want to be carried away
But...

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Categories: offset, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Cardi B
Dear Cardi B, I understand you make money moves
Maybe you should go to college and study too
I hate this new generation of rappers, I'd rather...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: offset, celebrity, fun, funny, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Comedy Translation Canto Xiii Hell Part 1
Nexus had not yet reached the other side
When we started to enter in a wood
On which no any sign of pathway lied. 

No green fronds,,...

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Categories: offset, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Shattered Sighs