Off Key Poems - Poems about Off Key

...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh! Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly! The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound, But a bla......

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...I walk in, and the air shifts like it knows me. Like it’s been waiting. Not a stage. Not a show. Just a room full of sound and people who get it. I’ve played songs here with shaky hands......

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...*A Meditation on Growing Up* ## I. [Age 6] — First Light Your fingernails, chewed down to pink, sort bottle caps by rust and shine. I offer you my father's Pepsi crown— you pocket it without......

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...The way you fold your coffee cup between both palms on winter mornings— I memorize this quiet ritual as if it were scripture. Your thumb traces circles on the ceramic rim, steam curling like y......

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...I am a free spirit happy and free I travel which way wind blows Often heard singing off key But dancing to the beat on my toes Words are blurred I forget them Often making up my own ditty Ye......

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...Today, my hair is jazz— wild coils improvising in the wind, syncopated with no apology. It scats when I walk, riffs when I laugh, and plays the truth off-key because it knows perfection never ......

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... Today I’m grateful that no matter how much I age as I continue to sing…even if a little off-key… a little bit of my childhood innocence sings along with me. ......

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...By noon, the halls throb with static, a low thrum like teeth grinding in sleep. The school, half-submerged in memory, holds its breath. Beneath a cracked skylight, a locker peels open by itself, slow......

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...I want to write tonight But my muse has taken flight Can’t blame her you see My life is quite boring The highlight of my day Happens after I pray Go to the YMCA exercise Then watch the......

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...Paddling on a swirling river. Her husband takes the right. His wife uses her powerful left hand. Oh, what a truly serene feeling. Gently gliding over the rippling water, As the moon mesmerises t......

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...Alas, old blog, thou dost baffle me Art thou a banjo short a cord An off-key piano, tortured A homeless cat meowing in the dark A shaken not stirred literary libation Advertising the talents of ......

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...A city block vendor chimes pleasantries prouder than Muzak or an unseen crow in the background elevating alarm clock music in the caws uncredited and angrily growing louder. A walkway narrows ......

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...People seem to forget what love really is. It goes past flowers,small gifts. It’s much more than that. Love showed up when you aren’t longing for it.Love is the reason you get though a long day. Love......

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...green snake poked his head out of the bathtub drain singing Christmas carols off key, singing a loud refrain i saw a turtle when Cobra slithered down and away bear stuck his paw through at the end......

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...What about what you want from love - a morning brew, the steam that curls, on Sunday cold, in blankets deep, while outside, the quiet world swirls. What about the flowers you choose - soft pet......

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