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Rose
... she's wild she's prickly distant and aloof stand-offish guarded and withdrawn but i will always love her AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on April 10, 2025......
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Line Gauthier
Categories:
offish,
forgiveness, love, rose,
Form:
Free verse
So Smart It Hurts
...SO SMART IT HURTS Some have logic as their source of fun But most would never think that way Let down barriers and open the mind It works most of the time, you’ll find Yet always let a genius ......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
offish,
humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Stay Away From Judgemental Linda
...She looks snobby, judgemental Linda said. I observed the newcomer who looked a bit stand-offish. But perhaps it is because I had not met her yet. I ran up to tell her that I liked her costume. Sh......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
offish,
woman,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Solitary Ones
...Although I greatly loved socializing, I really enjoyed being alone, Like ebony evenings of magic, with no ringing of the telephone. Since my young childhood, I had been, an introverted extrovert,......
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Evelyn Judy Buehler
Categories:
offish,
animal, fantasy, imagery, life,
Form:
Couplet
Better Than Having Nothing To Say
...I begin again on the same path I take every day, past the familiar fences, hedges and duck under the same sag of overhanging trees. Past the house with the sociopathic dog, the cottage st......
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Paul Willason
Categories:
offish,
muse, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Danish Married To a Scottish
...The Woman is A Danish And married to A Scottish But often heard in English: Language she speaks with relish… But the Rather Stand-Offish: At times slippery like Fish Or like things one woul......
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Chinedum Ekwobi
Categories:
offish,
analogy, identity, people, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Ebony Fox
...Ebony fox had no idea how amazing he was. He was a bit shy and stand offish. I was eager to get a photo but proceeded with caution. Gaining his trust, a tiny bit at a time With a bite of this and......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
offish,
animal,
Form:
Light Verse
A Very Cheeky Devil In Tumbling Rhyme
...A VERY CHEEKY DEVIL IN TUMBLING RHYME Thus, I give to mankind the zipper and the ballpoint pen-- for this He kicks me out of heaven! (No other reason ca......
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Jack Peachum
Categories:
offish,
angel, betrayal, bible, fantasy,
Form:
Verse
Aquarian Goddess of Wolves
...An Aquarian Goddess with a wolf power animal She often keens at the moon, howling her truth Others are a bit frightened at her confidence. Being her mother, I understand her spiritual ways. She......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
offish,
animal, woman,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lovable Robot
...Helpful Luca always has my best interest in mind Upon arriving home, her eyes quickly blink three times while she guages my mood Her greeting exceedingly polite Accordingly celebrating, commi......
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Sigrid Ermine
Categories:
offish,
computer, crazy, culture, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Demeanor
...Frost is a fashionable folkway Rather resented by Reason. Offish, often obtuse Snippy, snooty, sometimes sour Terse, temperamental written May 12, 2018......
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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
offish,
11th grade, friend,
Form:
Alliteration
I Am Not My Fear
...I feel I am drowning In open air, Clawing at dirt that isn’t there No one sees my distress— No one really cares Clacking, scraping sounds Of glasses and plates Echoes of breathing and voices ......
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Laura Breidenthal
Categories:
offish,
anxiety, appreciation, fear, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Singing On the Bus
...I used to sing on the school bus, Harmonise and everything, full blast, Most of the others had strong voices, And I would wish mine was cast. Geoff the driver would put Radio Forth on, An......
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Dominique Webb
Categories:
offish,
friendship, journey, kid, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Squids, Like Sunshine
...You knew I was angry As we walked apart, along Spadina Through the pungent summer air of Chinatown Past the various sea creatures, dried or iced And fruits I don’t know piled atop sacks of rice......
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Andy Thomson
Categories:
offish,
anger, city, forgiveness, love,
Form:
Free verse
Over the Golden Week
...Over the Golden Week: Despite autumn, weather stubbornly refuses to cool. Started all on a plane, the studied indifference as opposed to a bus the difference is studied sick between Australia and ......
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Gin Conn
Categories:
offish,
seasons, dark, dark,
Form:
Free verse
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