Short Off Key Poems

pianist sits still;
blood flowing down
keys going off-key...

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The coyote's cry, off key
hair, on my neck, at attention
I lean out to hear....

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Pigeon, plump and gray
Singing his song but off key
Perched on the park bench...

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Pumpkin party was in full swing
the ghosts and ghouls began to sing
	they sang off key
	it tickled me
 as I danced ‘round the witches’ ring....

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I once knew a songster from Skokie
Who was thrown in the Sing Sing pokey
They claimed he was off key
And his voice was croaky
So he killed them at karaoke!...

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TALK TOO FAST

SCREAM EXSTREMLY LOUD

YELL UNTIL MY EARS RING

HOLLA UNTIL MY THROAT BURNS

SING THE WRONG WORDS

OFF KEY

HE DID, PUT ME ON

MUTE!...

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Art
uncaged-
musical
monuments in
paint

Cge Painting Cycle by Gerhard Richter

http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/6380/cage-6-paintings-by-gerhard-richter...

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Today I’m grateful that no matter how much I age
as I continue to sing…even if a little off-key…
a little bit of my childhood innocence
sings along with me.

...

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One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor
Tis the season for upchucking from every pore
From singing off key
To removing dungarees
Picking up chickies with attributes galore...

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Whimsy flowers
On the edge of sleep
Mirage-like echoes
Singing off key
Arias
Challenge
The closing curtain
Whispers
Hidden 
In the dusk
Of dreams
Dance
In the vapory mist
Of sleep’s
Oasis.
...

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In daybreaks glow
Whispers of a new day
A sleeping world stirs
Act one of the play

And I sing
Off key
And made up words

To the first birds
Who answer in kind
With tones much sweeter
Than I may find...

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Sounded Like Sitting On a Cactus

Should have to hear when at practice;
Sounded as if were sitting on a cactus;
They would be,
Always off key;
Men are humbugs while women a priss.

Jim Horn

Off to choir practice....

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There once was an off-key raccoon

Joined a feat and barked out of tune,

   Since he groaned aloud

   The pissed judges cowed

As he won to shut off this loon!



Limerick Contest
Sponsor: Jan Allison
12/26/2015...

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Two souls mixed in tunes,
Rippling chords in harmony,
Strumming the same song.

Rhythmic love notes,
Vibrating flames of passion,
In synced hearts of pair,

We sing vows of love,
Pitching notes of high and low,
Not to bounce off key....

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Remember when, 'way back then'
Our flag we flew -- to cheers, not boos

Old Glory, all saluted
No one taunted, no one hooted

'Star-Spangled Banner' folks sang
Off-key, tear-stained twang
     
We believed every word
Deep yearnings stirred...

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There once was a goat named Billy Bob Brown

Who sang horribly off-key when he danced through town. 

One day while singing, someone grabbed a long pole,

And pushed Billy Bob into a large hole,

Now Billy Bob no longer sings as he dances around....

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Encouraged by the masses
is mediocrity,
like when someone at a bar
sings bad karaoke.
As they belt out notes off key,
we might give guffaws.
Drunken with good will, though,
we offer up applause.

Written Feb. 14, 2016 for the Grook Contest of Silent One...

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A baby boomer, late bloomer, at times a doom and gloom er.
Eats blueberries, says Hail Mary's, believes in leprechauns and fairies.
Works on commission, has good nutrition, too impatient to ever go fishing.
Sings in C, off key but always very happily.
Never a stoic, brave and heroic. Lately feeling mesozoic....

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green snake poked his head out of the bathtub drain
singing Christmas carols off key, singing a loud refrain
i saw a turtle when Cobra slithered down and away
bear stuck his paw through at the end of the day
i am in no hurry to take a warm relaxing bath now
imagining seeing an inverted muddy hoof of dairy cow...

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Sniffs of cotton candy glide
Glistening like hairy sugar bombs
Through barns of dozy prized cows
Stinky squeaky piggies squeal off-key
While whirligig Ferris Wheels grind and spin
In the hum of the Tilt-A-Whirl and giddy voices


May 14, 2023

Bitesize Contest No. 64 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by:  Line Gauthier...

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Through the eyes of a pirate I might be
A sunset on the ocean's seas.
Through the eyes of a pirate I shall be
A dolphin singing a little off key
Through the eyes of a pirate I will buy
A killer wave up to the sky
Through the eyes of a pirate I can do
Just about anything I want too



Misty Graves-Thomason ã2007...

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Alas, old blog, thou dost baffle me
Art thou a banjo short a cord
An off-key piano, tortured
A homeless cat meowing in the dark
A shaken not stirred literary libation
Advertising the talents of its writers
Redundantly raucous rhetoric 
Echoing down a dusty corridor
Gathering the featherless dreams
Of forlorn and wingless words
...

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you know those people you thought were crazy
but you didn't care anyways
because you were too
and did the most rediculous things with
laughed with, cried with
who was there when you needed them
and changed situations in a flash
they were the ones who sang off key
who danced togeether
who acted like they were on crack
and were the people you envied?...

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I had an elder friend
Visit me not too long ago
I asked her to join me in song
On my backyard patio

As the music played
She suddenly began to sing
A tune off key in her own words
To the song "Good Night Irene"

What a blessing that day
Bestowed upon me to see
With a chuckle she ended her tune
And that was her great Little Gift to me!

Brenda Elizabeth Rose...

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I sing my song slightly off key.
That's why no one, stands beside me

You may wonder why I'm upset.
I had hoped to sing a duet.

Maybe singing is not for me.
I will stick with my poetry.

The words I write can harmonize.
If they are sung by other guys.

Vocal talent I don't possess.
But with my words I can caress.

So I will let you sing my tune.
Better voices are made to croon....

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