Short Off The Cuff Poems

Off the Cuff
May be Rough
But you can do it

It's not absurd
To use a word
You just make it fit....

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The wife took a tumble downtown
And an homeless man held her down
She said (off the cuff),
"No need to play rough
An adjective describes a noun!"...

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Ongoing
          discussions
upon change:
boring
dissonant
often incoherent,
disjointed,dislocated
off-the-cuff
promises.
centrepieces
of tomorrow
built with lies...

merely a means..
to
    their ends...

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Hubby was pottering in our garden when off the cuff,
He said I’ve looked everywhere but can't find fluff
Our cat and, must plant these pansies,
But I’ve lost my reading glasses,
Where to plant them, for now can’t hear you love.
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A symptomatology buff
one morning was feeling quite rough
a cold his prognosis
no strict diagnosis
just one he thought up off the cuff.

Using the word 'symptomatology', from the Poetry Soup random word generator,
and as a present for Jan Allison, box of tissues not included x

27th January2016...

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Drink earth's grape - and liquor's melting
of the sense's grim
clap the heart and soul and dance
the music's justly whim
moisten now life's hurried stance
with temporary oil 
lift the spirit - tilt the glass
spin day's doldrums - kiss the sin
for 'morrow enters still again
the mundane and the rough
tonight - you soothe the palette
by living off the cuff...

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Everything can feel so tough
When someone isn’t up to snuff.
Your best may not be good enough
Although you try and try.

What often happens off the cuff,
As simple as a powder puff,
May suddenly seem raw and rough,
A truth you can’t deny.

So if you’re acting grim and gruff
Because you lack your normal stuff,
You just might not be up to snuff
And that’s the reason why....

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Interested?

only in the falling off and floating,
watching as the clouds pass by
and
if the sky is blue and only blue
why then am I happy
seeing you in tangerine?

dreams of psychedelic because
I'm somewhat of a relic
thrown forward from some
bygone time.

No one reads the signs and yet
wonder why they're lost.

Interested?
not at the cost of
appearing so....

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I watched as reason
drained your face,
frowns cracked
to reveal a single tear
buried under the layers


I witnessed as the dye
dripped off the cuff
twin splashes of blue
scarred my cornea’s


I prayed as the colour
drained from your mouth,
as its corners 
found the downturn


I cry as you dance
to nightshade,


always believing 
the rhythm
would bring you back


and smiling in Technicolour...

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Remember my favorite flower,
sometimes that’s just what I need; 
Spend time talking for hours 
Be there and support my dreams; 

Remember I can be far too serious  
take me out of my head for a while; 
Remind me to remain fearless,  
make me laugh and echo my smile;

Remember me on a random day
surprise me do things off the cuff; 
Sit with me in the car as the stereo plays,
let me know being me is enough....

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How do we go through life with degrees?
And always, always blame someone for our needs!

Sad, Ivory Tower midgets are we!
Living in outreageous arrogance, but always blaming thee!

Big heads, but no hearts.
Blame, blame, are our poison darts.

Who, we? We are perfect you see?
Ineffective, irresponsible, intellectuality! 

What have you done for the earth?
Besides quipping, off the cuff, ineffective mirth?


                  10-10-2021
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