Short Lopsided Poems

night scattered bright light
uplifting zephyr -caught snow~
lopsided snowman

12/14/2023...

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blueberry night skies
crescent moon's lopsided smile--
star-dusted in bliss


Susan Ashley
September 14, 2017...

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'Ping-Pong' is wrong
        'Peng' confided 
     If 'Ping' is lopsided
     then 'Pong' is misguided 
        'Prong' decided...

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Gravestones lopsided
Forgotten behind the trees 
Surrounded by grass
Sun crosses risen from earth 
Crowned with some olive green mosh...

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to love and to cherish
You
to entangle myself 
in your phonetic mindset
is to relinquish the ever lopsided 
concealment 
which now subsides
within my soul...

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Got up feeling lopsided.
Not sure what to do with 
The day.

Wondered about
This green feeling.
What does
Green mean?

Feeling confident
It will come to me
If I don’t push it....

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vulnerable seagull left behind
standing on sandy beach
staring at lopsided waves
listening to the warnings of the sea
where is your family?
I empathize, feeling alone myself
a comrade...

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He rode a pony aside a pumpkin patch...
Pet a sheep, hugged a goat. 
then kissed a little lamb.
With a shimmering smile
he rescued a lopsided pumpkin... 
then whispered, 
"This is the best day of my life."...

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Some despair, a dash of desperado
a spot of Worcester rye

Seasoned with a tear
dried in  wind fried in  sun
scrambled in a flip of sky

Dressed in a lopsided smile
pressed inside the heart,

Set free

Making Poetry...

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There's a well-known popular formulation --
Achievement's ninety-nine percent perspiration
On the heels of one percent inspiration  

What's missing from this lopsided equation?
  ~ The not insignificant role of desperation...

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She’s completely dressed in black
Elbows are crooked
Leaning down she looks at me
Eyes that are sacred
Her lopsided smile
Tickles me with great delight
A glow from her guile

Russell Sivey

Form Seguidilla...

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Harry Heart had never wanted to be a jester at all.
To make the king happy, he had to reinvent himself that fall.
He had to be nasty and mean, a bully, making the court laugh.
He felt as out of place as a tutu ballet dancing lopsided giraffe....

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What triggers out-of-control emotions?
frown
whistle
lopsided picture frame
yellow flowered wallpaper
person
smell
landscape
poem
painted canvas
purse
postcard
antique mall
toothbrush
six thousand eight hundred other things
What triggers me is unique to me
And what triggers you is an anomaly to me...

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Such a lopsided affair, 
are you game..
should you care
the heart
must, 
at some point
perhaps at its weakest
trust.
   
No' oh nah..
I don't ask much,
your divining rod
for lust of men
or hope of God..

there's only enough
 time
 to find
each longing dependent,
resplendent
oh love, make me
yours
and you 
mine....

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You are a clown she said.
Thank you I replied, adding a smile.
Your buffoonish ways bother me, she added.
A smirk now. I had not noticed before how lopsided her mouth is.

I am sorry, I apologize. I was not listening.
You are dumb, she added. Spelling it out.
You are D O M. Dumb.
I am careful not to laugh.
Not wanting to hurt my best friend’s feelings....

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Fill me up
With sweet honey kisses

Fill me up
With those velvety eyes

Fill me up
With wanton desire

Fill me up
With amazing surprise.

Fill me up
With a young girls longing
Like a bird who has taken to wing

Fill me up 
With wondrously fun secrets
Most impossible to try to keep in

Fill me up with the sight of your lopsided grin
As you hear these words and take them in...

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My Ficus Benjamin grew very large
“That tree needs pruned back,’ says dad, taking charge
Out come the ladder, the lopper and prop.
He climbs up through the branches, right to the top.
He lops and he prunes, the north east and west
But here to the south... a wood pigeon’s nest
 My tree’s all lopsided, three quarters shorn
And so it will be till the young birds have flown...

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They call it love
We sit in the hospital waiting room
when your name is called
You get up slowly still wearing a crutch.
You walk a bit lopsided.
Your coat is inside out
this is because it’s raining
and you want to protect the colour.
You are elderly now, but still beautiful inside.
Feel like getting up embracing you,
but instead get up and have coffee
in the vending machine....

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She is a symmetrical faerie
Weird for a painting of mine.
I like my subjects lopsided.
Upside down or topsy turvey is okay too.

Who drew this one? I ask Pixie.
Pixie is my painting muse.
She is Trixie’s cousin
She has attitude 

Pixie puts her hands behind her back
Twists her waist back and forth
She looks like an impish six-year-old.
Like Trixie and I, she can never play poker...

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He amended a heart he didn’t break,
His lips never uttered a lie,
His hands were never cruel,
When he sang, danced, spoke gently, and when he smiled,
My heart fluttered and was lost for a while
He makes my day when he looks at me and raises an eyebrow with a lopsided grin, 
His foolishness makes my head spin.
He’s the past, the future, and the present 
His love is tender and omnipresent...

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Dated photos lay crumpled
On the floor

I kneel next to them,
Shoulders hunched

I can't remember
If they belong to me.

The little girl looking out
From the photos

Has light brown ringlets
That dangle at her cheeks,

A dandelion crown lay
Lopsided atop her head.

Sunshine illuminates
Her hazel eyes

As tears fill mine,
Spilling over and splashing

Onto the photo like rain....

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Lavish lilac layers link lofty laurel lunar lanterns
 laissez-faire luxurious largesse lifts labouring lumberjack 
loop-de-loop  lilting Limerick levity lessens life’s load
laughter laden-lampoon, a little lacerating labyrinthine lip 
limelight lustrous leonine lithe lady launches lavender lace
lucid lissome leisurely land loper locket livid loom
Lopsided lounge lizard’s love-lies-bleeding loose leaf...

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Curious cats and plebian pirates do not mix well.
When white skull and crossbones are flying lopsided.
Derelict dogs and wily witches try casting a spell.
My imagination is being ridiculously overexcited. 

My muse is throwing in damsels, dragons and robins gray
Along with Christmas tree ants and squirrels that play 
I hear her deep heartfelt languishing sighs of dismay 
As she tries to control me yet again today....

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Love is like a seed,
casually planted in the heart
of two people.
It must be given a chance to grow,
watered, fertilized and nurtured
by strong ties of proper moral values.
 
I saw such planting once.
They were young and full of zest.
She was petite and loving.
He was strong and hard-working.
The seed grew...lopsided.
For they grew rich.  Egoism set in
and one wanted all, the other yielded.
The seedling died.
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she looks broken
lopsided, uneven, off
we look at each other
there are shadows
an eerie feeling on a country road

a motorcycle?
a car?
truck?
alien spaceship?
should we stop? I ask my husband
as we get a bit closer. 
he shakes his head no

she looks spooky 
in the dark
a single headlight 
switched off now
we both feel there is something ominous
about this lopsided, uneven, pick-up truck
on this deserted country road....

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