Out Of Step Poems

Can't Stop Rocking

...Look out on the music these days,
there ain’t a whole lot to say,
techno makes me feel dead inside,
dub-step, just get out of my way.
Hip-hop just rubs me all wrong,
that stuff is barely a song,...
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Categories: out of step, appreciation, celebration, fun, how
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHeartbeat

...I fell out of step
you brought music to my life
together we dance
Even if there is no sound
Together we are in tune...
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Categories: out of step, love,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberNot Much of a Choice

...Cooper was a large and curious tiger, the bright star of a motley circus,
Always out of step with others; like erring moon, of dawn skies, citrus.

He was well fed and got lots of attentio...
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Categories: out of step, beauty, color, fun, nature,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberOur Ultimate Identity Crisis

....                                                 People,
                                                  places,
                                                  events.
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Categories: out of step, bereavement, death, earth, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSmooth

...I fell out of step
you brought music to my life
together we dance
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Categories: out of step, age,
Form: Haiku


Premium MemberIn the whispering embrace of twilight

...In the whispering embrace of twilight,
Where shadows hang like forgotten whispers,
A man stands, fully aware of his mystical powers,
His heart a vessel of dreams, his soul a tapestry of forgotten ...
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Categories: out of step, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNot Quite Picture Perfect

...A stitch in time saves nine, lest, out of step lose pep, 'ere gains back mislaid track; cruise control, lose neutral.

practice makes perfect
as perfect is relative
subject is practice...
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Categories: out of step, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberEyes Lit On Fire Twilight Tribute

...Misfit always out of step with the world,
Outsider longing to run forever;
Then into my reticent life you twirled; 
Proximity my only endeavor;
Eyes lit on fire and my appetite swirled,
there wa...
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Categories: out of step, emotions, film, love, tribute,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberThe Odd Couple

...There was a little girl that never quite seemed to fit in
out of step with a world that seemed to her full of sin

No matter what she did or tried there always was a gap
that seemed to grow even ...
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Categories: out of step, appreciation, flower, true love,
Form: Couplet

Out of Step

...I don't do perfect,
And refuse to accept it as an edict,
As perfect is impossible to perfect,
With billions of definitions of what makes anything or anybody perfect,
Even scientists have been una...
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Categories: out of step, addiction, age, allusion, baptism,
Form: Grook

Premium MemberMy Space Reverse Poem

...I wish for you on dandelions
catch my frustration like fireflies
in the sky all I see is desire 
to climb onto a beam and escape 
flying in saucers spinning elliptically 
maybe this alien will f...
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Categories: out of step, dream, emotions, space,
Form: Other

Melding

...3 a.m. a green modem light,
blinks regularly in a dark bedroom.

A hoot owl breaks the silence,
its call is never predictable,
always out of step
with your own heartbeat.

Something different...
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Categories: out of step, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Surge of Logic

...Maverick waves turn the tide 
crashing like an out of tune refrain;
Things so wrong I could have cried;

Momentum stronger than a train,
all the wind knocked out of you;
Balance becomes hard to...
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Categories: out of step, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Terza Rima

God Like, Not So Different

...
“God like, not so different” 

She wrote, 
“where do you go to my lovely?”

my response, 
“I sink into the screen 
like a scream queen goddess,
I am Lilith most of the t...
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Categories: out of step, muse,
Form: Narrative

Out of Step

...Talking heads are synchronized,
words are replicated like cloned sheep.

Dodging in and out of an unchanging static
I skip the beat.
Hey, something just flashed my drive!

Time to suspend a st...
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Categories: out of step, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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