Short Off Center Poems

island
craving dust
no more water
says enough is enough —
send-off

9/3/2019
(Hurricane Dorian)...

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Fragile to the touch,
Like a rainbow in the sky,
When you dream, you live,
In the heart of the sacred,
Let your dreams carry you off....

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The Tower of Pisa started leaning
Builders knew by floor three the meaning
Soft earth they say
Still stands to this day
 More than 16 feet off center careening...

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Round pizza, triangular slices, SQUARE box!
Uh what's wrong here, someone's a real dumb ox
A round box would be better
It would fit like a sweater
As of now it sure blows my lavender socks off!...

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A polite way of saying someone's a little off-center
Say they're flaky, psycho, peculiar, or bizarre
I'm really nice though
To old ladies, love I show
Cept if I don't see em while driving my car...

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wind blast cold to bone
plants, animals frozen stiff
dead winter kill off






Written By: Carol Brown
Written on: 12/13/2011
Written for the: " Dead Winter Contest"
Sponsored by: Sidney~LeeAnn
4th Place Winner...

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i'm that guy
who's to weird for you
who they say they love
but forget when all 
the funs going around
that guy who you fear
but never admit it
a dent in your ego
a mark on you rep
who they seem to forget
to busy to pick up the phone

they say i'm the one 
who'll stand up 
from the crowd 
so for good or evil
how am i suppose to
stop all the war 
in this world...

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The babies babble; then they talk.
They crawl, then stand and soon they walk,
Delighting in their new-found skills;
Observing them gives non-stop thrills.

But as they grow, they'll find some friends
And as their circle thus extends,
Our star will fade as it should do
Though hopefully, our love's the glue

To hold them fast as time goes by
Without the need for how or why.
Yet wistfulness creeps in as age
Bumps most of us off center stage....

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