Best Sideways Poems

You look sideways at me
I look straight on at you
You glance towards me
I stare at you
memorize the stiches of your coat
they are uneven
 it must have been handmade
You look up at the sky
I look at your shoes
They are slim and obviously Italian
You've been traveling in...

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it was just …

a look
one …
it was my reaction you saw -
a recoil
emotional … untethered
it wilted, blue
in louvered columns of moonlite
long before it bloomed
but you plucked it anyway
one petal at a time
a wish on each
for my annihilation and doom …
but my ruin was long ago
your...

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I took an unexpected trip to Accidental city,
bruised ribs, torn ligaments, a state most
would pity..
Yesterday I experienced a trip and a fall on
uneven asphalt outside a local mall..
There weren't any witnesses to observe
my little feat.
I focused on getting back up and safely
from the street.
My left...

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small particle
of light in the
free and infinite space
what is knowledge
what is karma
she seems perturbed
white sand spreading beyond
an injured crab walking backwards
we are
our whole nature is freedom
we curb it we listen to false
teachings and get entangled
and we are in bondage
you are the horizon
where earth meets the...

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Sideways people living out on the plain
I think they've been dying for a change
sent some men up to try and make a trade
sadly we got nothin they want in exchange

Ethnocentric yankee joe
tryin to find out where people go
when they're done being part of the show
but...

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Dear
single guys,
open a pet shop
that just sells kittens,
and let the single 
ladies come 
to you...

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The Egyptians walked sideways I figure
to conceal the fine points of their figure.
In a desperate scrimmage
with their own body image
diet mania they would prefigure....

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salmon swim sideways
      while nature does take its course
      to start of each branch...

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OVER UNDER INSIDE OUT
(It still doesn’t fit)

The hospital gown
Makes Greek statues frown
You can see it in their sculpted faces
And they say in disgust
That they always will trust
The fig leaf that the gown replaces...

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Staring out at the world i see
my eyes reflected in those eyes
in those eyes where colors combine
in those eyes where I see you reflected in me.
Reflections are glimmering on the surface
of this ship, friendship, relationship
tugging at memories long forgotten
things i shouldn’t have said
I have said...

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While walking I saw 
something move in the corner of my eye.
When I gazed straight at it,
it was gone.
But, on second glance, askance,
there it was, again.
To and fro, direct and peripheral,
it appeared and disappeared on cue.
Head down, focused, tunnel-eyed:
I missed the cherry blossom burst.
I missed...

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LOPSIDED and SIDEWAYS

Severe blindness and handicapness

Of double mindedness

I can't stand

It pierce under my skin

Ever so deeply to leave no room for open discussion

Only confusion that leaves me with nothing

But lies to myself and unsafe untread waters

that fails miserably to quench the thirst of my true...

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She only looks sideways

Tattooed evil, Blood red rose

Smoke comes from her eyes.

 

(January 22, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)


(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,...

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Sideways Travel

Tiny crevices, they take shelter and make their home in,
wandering around to scavage on garbage brought up from the ocean's floor to eat.
 
Brightly painted red by their original maker,
they work their way home on their tiny, spindly legs
that together walk sideways,
as their beady...

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Oh soooo pretty
So wonderful to watch
My heartrate kept increasing
You kicked it up a notch
Stealing little glances
When you turned your back
Beauty in abundance 
None of it you lack

Turning 'round you caught me
Quickly I looked down
Too late to not be noticed
Your blue eyes caught my brown
But I...

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