Saturday, 24 January 2026

Off

 


Off and running through childhood backyard freestyle

having a ball off to a good start small steps the ball aloft.

 

Off you go to classrooms of uncushioned facts in the running

playing fields of bruises, talk of tumble and rough.

 

Off peak is the ordinary time to potter in the shed, shed fear

run the gauntlet of Anyswhereville life’s living proof, prof.

 

Off the wall the art, learning through early years or late

each peachy shape of creation studied, in spoken awe of.

 

Off your face with all unsigned designs of the unseen Author

who lights up all change forever more than enough.

 

Off and on your loves, more in common than with just anyone

but they why do they do that not this, you question and cough.

 

Off again on again likewise the lawful choices of work

teaching or trade, bohemia or business, silence or scoff.

 

Off the charts the cities that city’s contain, untold streams

dreams of them if you will and dream upon oft.

 

Off Broadway are friends their song, discovery trial and error

duets a lifetime, others the singing the notes pitch feel all off.

 

Off like a bride’s nightie on the search for domestic harmony

such overwork as deserves rest and a toast you may quaff.

 

Off-hand the ways of the wayward world wanting

off grid then on bend or vista, lonely scrub, sudden trough.

 

Off limits are the places visited because they’re there

limits learnt the hard way, the same way the highway the tough.


Off work with ailments muddle loss, troubles typical make for

scripts for painless, windows to stare, holidays to waft.

 

Off the deep end the great perhaps there no more thinking

where’s no on-off switch nor office of off, since cast-off.

 

Off the record thoughts pass days the minutes cannot track

while diarists catch tense seconds, someone from Chekhov.  

 

Off the planet is strictly for the nerds floating in tin cans

home is feet of terra firma, eyes with surprise, hand in glove.

 

Off-setting and with hmmm yes good idea the phone off

notice your mind find peace and air on the face is soft. 

 

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