Short Out Of Step Poems

I fell out of step
you brought music to my life
together we dance
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I fell out of step
you brought music to my life
together we dance
Even if there is no sound
Together we are in tune...

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Out of step was I in my insomniac prison, finally breaking out to recapture some of my circadian rhythm.




2-14-18...

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Passion dances
On melancholy's nostalgic
Illusions...
Bruised,
Love surrenders, shrieking laughter,
Under life's raging reality...
Then silence!

Cynthia...

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Sort of Sleazy

Trump with all things is out of step,
And at doing things not ever adept;
Slept uneasy;
Sort of sleazy;
In on him old age has crept and crept.

Jim Horn...

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A stitch in time saves nine, lest, out of step lose pep, 'ere gains back mislaid track; cruise control, lose neutral.

practice makes perfect
as perfect is relative
subject is practice...

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Oh you tell of a forlorn maiden
so much out of step out of time
one so close to this my heart
alas simple of mind
yet she is my kind
she’s my mother
age exposed
withered
lost

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Monoko 4 - Solitude

rhythm all my own   they all seem so out of step   so I march alone...


Sandra M. Haight

~7th Place~
Contest: Monoku #4 Solitude 
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A
Judged: 02/09/2016
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i'm two years
too old

maybe a few
more but

i wasn't
told

so i find
myself

dancing
a waltz

but she's
jiggling

salsa in front
of me

though i'm aware
the timing isn't

clear but clearly
i'm out of step

with the
times...

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I think failure has been
my greatest success; being
out of step, stepping on my
partner's toe she gave me stern
impetus to find another, like myself
with two left feet...and for 35 years
we have sat all 
the rest out, our bench
an enchanted garden....

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If no man is an island,
  what can one man be

If no man stands alone,
  to write the words, himself to free

If never beats that distant drum,
  one marching out of step

Who will swim against the tide,
 —their ink forever wet

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Misfit always out of step with the world,
Outsider longing to run forever;
Then into my reticent life you twirled; 
Proximity my only endeavor;
Eyes lit on fire and my appetite swirled,
there was no confusion whatsoever; 
The vampire in me kindled a sparkle,
Edward Cullen please make me immortal....

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SING A HAPPY SONG

When life goes wrong
as it sometimes will;
sing a happy song.
When the world is out of step,
as it often is,
just sing a happy song.
Pray every day for Jesus to help.
He is our brother;
He is our wealth.
When things go wrong,
it's to Jesus we belong.
Just sing a happy song.

Janet Marie Bingham...

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Two tongues dance around the stage
Both with the same master
Yet each will fail to please tonight
The music’s getting faster

The song is full of contradictions
And the seats are full of critics
Better hide your seams tonight
‘Lest they grow suspicious

Each tongue dancing out of step
If only they had ears to listen
Master lost his cool tonight
Such a shame we’ll miss him...

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Maverick waves turn the tide 
crashing like an out of tune refrain;
Things so wrong I could have cried;

Momentum stronger than a train,
all the wind knocked out of you;
Balance becomes hard to maintain;

Warped has overridden what’s true,
I’m out of step with the new humanity;
Red cannot ever paint things blue;

A surge of logic washes over me,
surviving on a little bit of crazy....

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shining moment
bright angel
light shimmering
a halo on your hair
I am forever
blessed by this 
visitation

baubles dance
on our tipsy tree
we sway too
on a Bing Crosby tune
slightly out of step
but never minding
your heartbeat
is all I hear

time pauses
holding my hand
you wonder
what gift you can give
so filled, voice
stopped by tears
this is the gift
this is all, Love,
that I could want...

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Do you have to do something
  you loathe or then hate

To finance the thing
  that you love

Do you plod to a tune
  out of step and off key

To dance freely with
  that from above

Do the moments you steal
  and those stolen from you

Stand opposed or conjoined
  at the hip

Are those times rare and precious
  to freely aspire 

Worth a life lived divided
   —and split

(Train from White River Junction: March, 2016)...

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Do you have to do something
  you loathe or then hate

To finance the thing
  that you love

Do you plod to a tune
  out of step and off key

To dance freely with what
  comes from above

Do the moments you steal
  and those stolen from you

Stand opposed or conjoined
  at the hip

Are those times rare and precious
  to freely aspire 

Worth a life lived divided
   —and split

(Train from White River Junction: March, 2016)...

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Be careful of the word that slips
from in between your lovely lips.
Be sure it’s not deemed a disgrace,
not to be used in any place.

I thought that I was pretty hep,
but now I know I’m out of step.
I long for the time not long ago,
when such words were a big no-no.

You’ll find in Webster’s Dictionary,
good words both rare and ordinary,
that would explain your feelings better
than expletives and the F-letter.


Joyce Johnson 7/14/12...

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Awakened in the darkened night
Footsteps heard with drunken fright
Out of step a glint of light
Darkness hides the fear so tight

My move so quiet they never heard
The graceful pace of a humming bird
Out the window and down the street
Small and sleek no missing beat

No one they found
Here on this night
Their sticks they hold so very tight
Ropes unused each limb unbound

Running free
I hear them scream
Not quite done right
No Not Tonight...

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Rage fills my brain
As these fists come up
Regrets visualize
Suicide some
Anger overtakes my body
Evil complicates
Goodness fades
Waking the death
Upon these grounds
I bring back those
Who once stood around
Knifing your gut
Slicing your skin
Opening cuts
Bastard sin
Evil communicates
I stand by
Listening 
Waiting
As you die
Last moments of breath
Last moments on Earth
Find your way out of step
Daggering threat
I visualize
Your sacrifice
For your kindness 
Angers me...

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fake
I snuck into the party with an ID I hastily made
and stumbled, out of step, into the poetry parade.

In this beautiful country club, I'm surrounded by my betters.
I wave my kindergarten rhymes to show the men of letters.

In the echo of the learned men who came this way before me
I hear the patterned minuets, that if followed, lead to glory.

I chafe in those traveled ruts and I long for something varied
and I hope to spark a unique verse, between school and the cemetery....

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