Offsetting Poems

The Backlight of Equality

...On the day of the Lord the human shall fear,
A terrifying god whom will Christians duly Peer,
The dead shall live again - the Christian tear,
A monopolising Christianity that cannot hear.

With,...
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Categories: offsetting, appreciation, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPockets

...Wouldn’t it be nice if every moment was just rainbows and roses with worries fading to dust

But snapped back into reality once we realize this fairy tale is not going to materialize

Yet can fin...
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Categories: offsetting, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDevils Sea

...Mysteries into mysterious
The thought just makes one curious
History having accounts within its own log
The wonders through the creation of the seas
1871 was a year when cargo ships would sail th...
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Categories: offsetting, adventure, anger, boat, books,
Form: Free verse

Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face

...Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face 

blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth 
of...
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Categories: offsetting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Unknown, the Remnant Strands

...It befalls on me the intensity,
Catapulted with dire immensity,
Within which lives the sensitivity,
Of them emotions built, the lightest. 

Then befell on me, the beknownst,
Whistled in hymnes ...
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Categories: offsetting, anger, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme


My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility Thus

...My coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrend...
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Categories: offsetting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBreast of Roses

...Breast of roses where her femininity used to be.
A scent of blossoms milled out by mastectomy.
The clippings praise and curse at the same time.
Her petals falling, weeping, assaulted, past...
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Categories: offsetting, cancer,
Form: Rhyme

Incomprehensible Existential Conundrum Confronts Mine Consciousness Part I

...Descendent of proto humans
dumbfounded, mystified, stupefied, et cetera
despite plethora of technological trappings,
whereby world wide web virtually linkedin
allowing, enabling, and providing
i...
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Categories: offsetting, 12th grade, absence, creation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTranquillity

...TRANQUILITY

figurative
 permanent
a silent
meditation
   for a
nuanced trauma

a spacious
   view
offsetting
   the decorative
 patterns
undulatng
expressive
yet mundane
  concerns ...
...
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Categories: offsetting, poetry,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThe Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition

..."The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-...
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Categories: offsetting, america, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Blank verse

Weekend Warrior

...Why?
Why not!
Their point of view

Each Friday they drank 
vengeance
every bottle drowned
another ache

Knights
shedding the end of a week
elegant shine
lost in devil may care

Needs
n...
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Categories: offsetting, addiction,
Form: Free verse

I Can Sense Your Impatience

...I can sense your impatience...

While yours truly (me)
doth strives to maintain
comfortably seated
closed eye meditative pose
mine skinny sea thru legs
(mere fo' shaw
by George spindleshanks)...
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Categories: offsetting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

No Matter Existence Mine Lamely Mostly, and Nearly Spent

...No matter existence (mine) lamely, mostly, and nearly spent...

I barely experienced
getting clothed (think fashion wise
as metaphorically swiftly tailored
harried styled mortal)
approaching na...
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Categories: offsetting, 12th grade, creation, husband,
Form: Free verse

Schwenksville Pennsylvania

...Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Earthdate/starttime: 11/04/19 01:10:26 AM
Earthdate/endtime: 11/04/19 02:55:46 AM

Poetic snapshot regarding immediate
actual, physical, spatial... environment
perti...
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Categories: offsetting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Incomprehensible Existential Conundrum

...Since time immemorial
happenstance bestowed *****sapiens
ability to become self aware
double edged figurative sword
allowing, enabling, providing...
forebears of yesteryear
to marvel at life, a...
...
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Categories: offsetting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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