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Paradox Poems - Poems about Paradox

Paradox Poems - Examples of all types of poems about paradox to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for paradox.
Premium Member The challenge of modern man is to reconcile the antithetical aspects of his personality
...The challenge of modern man is to reconcile the antithetical aspects of his personality, On the level of the body, he is an animal; on the level of the ego, an aspiring god. The fate of the animal ......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rainy Bird of Morning
...Here at garden salad seas The scene of time’s repeated theft A rain upon the poplar trees Witnesses vigor bereft A paradox of time and place Which Dickens did once suggest Lonely in a ......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, bird, nature, rain, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is
...Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is, An immortal soul trapped in mortal flesh, a dreamer wandering through unknown realms, Searching for hidden treasures and uncharted miracles u......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Have you ever been in love? It's terrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable
...Have you ever been in love? It's terrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable, It opens your chest and unravels your heart, letting the darkness seep in Through the cracks in your shell, and some......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the vault of eternal stars, where strings of light sing the ballads of infinity
...Under the vault of eternal stars, where strings of light sing the ballads of infinity, Two kinds of people are born, woven into the fabric of the cosmic destiny, Most people are those who cannot th......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Girl I'm Infatuated With
...The Girl I'm Infatuated With The girl I am infatuated with, Tells her friends, she ignores my advances. This flirtatious game she finds dismissive Still, I stay the course and remain foc......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, emotions, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Monoku four Cactus
...monoku four crowning the cactus —a flower blooms......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, encouraging, flower, hope, imagery,
Form: Monoku
The brutes called human
... Legacy, paradox and affirmation Bound the human society Distinct from nature's other entit......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, conflict, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We are fleeting apparitions, stepping between the threads of reality and the shadow
...We are fleeting apparitions, stepping between the threads of reality and the shadow, Children of a twilight that never ceases, neither white nor black, but both. Phantoms with hearts haunted by a s......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paradox vastness
...Paradoxes Are stories with Apparent Responses of Rejection..or of An immediate Resonance Burning borders And a vastness Which cannot be Explained... ......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, beauty, music, self, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Heaven in a hummingbird
... All is so, Beautiful, Captivating, Delightfully, Exquisite, Fairy like, Gorgeously gregarious, Hummingbird with, Iridescent wings, Just heavenly, Kindling, Life Within, Mysel......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, appreciation, bird, heaven, jesus,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn
... The sun, resplendent in its blazing might, Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste, A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched By searing radiation, deathly bright. No sign of life bu......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
Shadows of the Eternal Night
...I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine ......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
A Mother’s Guide to the Perfect Performance of Parenting
...It wasn’t the life she wanted. This life drained the light from her eyes, Turning them to deep gray circles, Her voice lost its tone, She lost herself. Mothering was not a part of the plan. She......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, angst, mom, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
The Bruised Blooms
...Beauty, a siren song upon the breeze, Whispers to hearts where kindred spirits sigh. Souls, crowned with thorns, yet yearning to appease The world's harsh symphony, with each fractured cry. A......Read the rest...
Categories: paradox, confidence, courage, emotions, hope,
Form: Canzone

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