Best Offset Poems

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 wind, rattling snake tail wind 
While we may be in the company of wolves,
A long legged friend is late for...

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Two hearts forever tethered to each other,
fear, which one, Death, will visit first.
And as time passes, a sadness swells
within our hearts, thinking about it. 
Acceptance of the inevitability of the other's death;
triggers apprehension, a very human experience. 
And such concerns can overwhelm conjoined hearts;
proving love...

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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 daily at this irresistible passion, which made long, golden hours fly,
As sun stains skies in its final burst of passion,...

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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 veil of tears.

But can she flee from sadness, yet
with no avail of tears?

In time, the Rue of No Regrets
will countervail...

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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 seen.

She flaunts ebony hair
befitting, a true Queen,
offset by a sweeping
tail of aquamarine.

Anchored in the shallows
I waded to the shore,
and evoked...

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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 charged into the brush
The creatures of the forest paused
In terrifying hush

Foreboding seeped into her bones
Ghastly, from ages spent
Urging her mount...

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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 moonlight

My love evaporated as I have waited
For the stars only come out at night
My love deflated as heaven dictated
For I...

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An all-encompassing shadow;
grief stalks you wherever you go.
And tucks you into bed at night
while invading your private dreams.
And you awake to nightmare screams;
alone with your thoughts, filled with fright.
Grief embraces sorrow and pain;
as teardrops burn like acid rain,
and darkness extinguishes light.
Beliefs can be offset by...

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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 abound

This pain gives offset emotions
In the mirror I hate what I see
I see, me

A person with no future
No hope
No dreams
No...

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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 end with a chill
the dawn remains wet nosed,
but summer is winning
it is edging in
painting the fields
with patchwork colors,
daubing the trees...

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Sometimes the light's all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it's been, 

 from Truckin by The Dead

Life is a Journey

Life is a long journey with
high hills and deep valleys.
Day after day one foot
in front...

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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 listen to the genius of Nas, Tupac, Eminem, Jay-Z, Kid Cudi too
When I turn on the radio, I can't believe...

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An icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The trees surrounding this house creak ominously overhead as tangled electric...

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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,, but grey dusky color stood;
No smooth branches, but all with twisted knots;
Not fruits but only poison sticks stay could.

Don’t have...

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I miss the remedies of our past selves,
I miss the extract of blight from the tip of your lips.
I miss your abstract sunrise tumbling down your shoulders,
I miss the offset emeralds looking outward.
I miss our blaze that once caught the world on fire,
I miss the...

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