Short Off Kilter Poems

off kilter music
metronome off by a beat
willie nelson way...

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Knew this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher...

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Knew of this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher...

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Knew of this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher...

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Knew of this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher...

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Jolly old Happy Jack enjoys all the notoriety
Adds much spice to life and gives it variety
Never once said
I have a level head
A little off kilter but surely no scourge on society...

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Knew of this fellow named Wilber
His body parts were a little off kilter
Whenever he laughed
Flames shot out his ass
Carried around his own fire extinguisher


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Wifey-poo accuses me of having no filters
“Tittily” agree, see what I mean, something's off-kilter
Not like normal dudes
Stuff slips out rude
Meant to lighten up things when suffering from fissures...

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In teaching what I know,
Emotions from frustration to joy will flow,
If the lesson passes through the emotional filter,
The course work will be off kilter,
Each lesson pulled down from above,
Shall be a lesson of love....

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Listen to poem:

dependent on your every whim
the yoyo of just a single word

moods that sway in ups and downs
compromising an artificial game 

heart off kilter in the balance
pummelled wobbly dazed and woozy



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on June 26, 2022...

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Seven poems in about seven minutes.
My writing hand is laughing to keep up.
I doubt I will be able to read half of this later.
Some of the words look like off kilter hieroglyphics.
We are in glee mode, my muse and I.
Do not stop us by trying to worry us about penmanship now.
We cannot hear you anyway....

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Wrinkle

Wending through time's wrinkle
With a wink and a smile
Warped and slightly askew
Wandering rabbit holes
Winds blow just off-kilter
Wardrobe, witch and lion 
Whimsical fantasies

Dedicated to C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle and Lewis Carroll

5-10-21
Contest Pleiades W
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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my sweet, slightly off kilter
my odd, confused self
may not fool anyone, anymore
maybe I should grow up?
but it's worked well for me
in the past
The Past
these lines on my face
accidental wise things I say
highlight my sagging ass
I am annoyed with this process
it interferes with my princessness
I can't decide
do I like it?...

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Trump hates hearing from CIA
Can’t stand the things they have to say
So news he'll filter
To keep us off kilter
By singing, "It's a Perfect Day."


Author's note: The new national anthem lyrics are being changed to "It's a Perfect Day" as sung by Hoku on Youtube.  It was funny for the movie with Witherspoon, but really? Is the world Legally Blonde?...

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The poison that praises the phantoms of people 
shall also kill the kind kin off kilter.

Be obliged to bless base bums with brevity and brawls of buffoonery 
and suck the souls of the saints who sip the sweet sap of swine.

Once more I twist the tale of tempting tempestuous teas that taste of thought and torment, 
and whip the wills with woe for one and all aware for my entire enjoyment....

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Shock absorbers don't help,
the axis is broken, the axels are crabbed,
forked up.
No garage can unflex the inflexible,
maintenance cannot be maintained.

Axially speaking, the world
and its billions of video artists
is off kilter.
Social influencers
have sold their souls to the godless
and by god, we are pissed
with just about nothing anymore.

"That's problematic,"
chorus all the blind owls....

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that hidden place where secrets go
a tiny room only lovers know
latent time where I have no will
a memory that is hard to kill

we dance the dance and sing a tune
off kilter and a bit off key
in the next life maybe we get it right
for a while it served its need

you scratch a heart into a dead tree
initials there for you and me
and if no one is in the forest
are there sound waves when it bleeds...

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There is no critical mass for ambiguity.
At this time, we are a little aside of ourselves
so we must constantly check our watches,
pause whatever we are doing in order to catch up.
Ambiguous margins have shifted
and that which was once out of sight
is now almost here, we see it
either as a rushing loco of craziness
rolling down mind-tracks,
or as a sublimity of yet more obscure forms.
This inexplicable need
to scribble off-kilter poetry on the clear-eyed air....

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Do we ever get to expose the real person inside?
When the layers of sub diversion and control create our disguise.

Do we ever stop toning and shaping our feel of what’s wrong or right?
So many interpretations we are forced to yield darken our skies.

Do we ever know love and it’s true power without filter?
Pretend, exaggerate, give up on the straight line, accept to live off kilter?

Do we stumble until we fall?
Or, does true love simply out live us after all?...

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Muppet Crazy Harry does not seem as odd these days
Maybe because of so many fads and no one is ever fazed.
He pulled his tricks along with bizarre antics too.
Meant very little next to the world’s biggest hullaballoo.

You have to be even crazier, I gave Muppet Crazy Harry as advice.
I am being as off kilter as I can he said, warming up some Kona ice.
You have to step it up a notch, or two or three or four, I told him.
You have so much competition now, people do things on a whim....

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