Off Center Poems | Examples


A Familiar World Moved An Inch Off-Center

The world shifted and here I stand
A tired and lethargic man
Who demos death to avoid life
It hurts to think, just close my eyes

A crippled cell ruined the richest man
And the poorest isn't safe now
A gaping pit formed under their feet
A frosty giant awaits

Burning home, left alone
Their snowy corpse was white as bone

The world shifted and here I stand
Empty of heart and brain and hand
Inflexible yet rubber-made
A mighty oak born within shade

They cried for hours over our best friend
For whom they lusted
A polyphoric fungus feeding on
Whoever would listen

Live decay, turn away
Sinking deeper every day

The world shifted and here I stand
In a kingdom of rust and sand
Off-center and endless of height
Upon this throne of blackest night

The world shifted and they're all gone
Vanished within the rays of dawn
Caught making love with death and rot
So here I stand, it all for naught.
Categories: off center, change, death, loss,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberOff-Center

A polite way of saying someone's a little off-center
Say they're flaky, psycho, peculiar, or bizarre
I'm really nice though
To old ladies, love I show
Cept if I don't see em while driving my car
Categories: off center, fun,
Form: Limerick


Off Center Stage

The babies babble; then they talk.
They crawl, then stand and soon they walk,
Delighting in their new-found skills;
Observing them gives non-stop thrills.

But as they grow, they'll find some friends
And as their circle thus extends,
Our star will fade as it should do
Though hopefully, our love's the glue

To hold them fast as time goes by
Without the need for how or why.
Yet wistfulness creeps in as age
Bumps most of us off center stage.
Categories: off center, age, time,
Form: Rhyme

Dancing Off Center Staged Delusions

Poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped amid holy water retention,
compromising statements
     of disbelief's proclamation
spinning music the color
     of nakedly sick psycho, yet
burnished souls keep on ticking
   half past total trade-offs
   in a spoonful of smoky reflections
         sans sugar's acid trip,
anointed of rose red 
        bloody false pretenses
dancing off center 
       in disillusioned
   pirouettes of pseudo redemption,
whirling out of control on
         staged tapestry's loftiness
surrendered ballet slippers 
        in blistered half promises,
as twisted metaphors sprightly
       tuned out spun anomalies
below birds on a rusty wire tweeting
     admissions of cobalt blue executions,
rendered inky alterations' inquisitions 
        'pon pedaled pink fluff profundity,
exhaling paroxysms of engaged poetry
    in vehemently enraged deliverance,
naught one is ever as they seem
  through pigmented film 'neath
    figment's imagined looking glass
           of ingratiated grand delusions
Categories: off center, hyperbole, imagery, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

All About Me/Off Center

i'm that guy
who's to weird for you
who they say they love
but forget when all 
the funs going around
that guy who you fear
but never admit it
a dent in your ego
a mark on you rep
who they seem to forget
to busy to pick up the phone

they say i'm the one 
who'll stand up 
from the crowd 
so for good or evil
how am i suppose to
stop all the war 
in this world
Categories: off center,
Form: I do not know?


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