Best Antithesis Poems

written last year after Maya Angelou"s death-


Men wonder wherein my charm lies-
I'm not good looking or athletic in size-
I try to tell the guys,
But some think I'm telling lies.
I say to them,
It's how I carry myself-
Honesty in my eyes,
Politeness in my talk,
Gentleness in my actions,
Conviction...

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The extent you search determines the extent you see…
For searching equates missing which manifests not seeing that which is their however not 
noticed…
The one eternal moment is now or now or now…
Not existing previous or after…
Only our minds cloud the stillness clarity pool attempting to...

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Antithesis

In May, the lion’s ear blooms immaculately,
As if the night sky is on fire.
It excretes a ravishing untarnished beauty,
A mesmerizing compelling beauty
Only the mad mystics and poets can discern.
Here, put on these rubber sandals;
The pair with the ostrich plumes,
For the walkway to my hidden tower...

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Everything is
Nothing
or
Nothing is
Everything

No is
Yes
or
Yes is
No

Beginning is
Ending
or
Ending is
Beginning

At the end
confusional illusion
or delusional confusion !

© Mahtab Bangalee...

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Both the beginning and ending at once
A fractured peace of tears and smiles
The love for and loathing of self
A shattered mirror no more than glass

Life swore a vow and broke it
A curse of despair and hope
Nothing will change if not changed
The paradox of existence

The temerity...

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a crepuscular forest of shadows,
of fierce animal boding -
devout day-mare crossfire
...

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Gravity conquers desire
It devours and absorbs all
In the black colorless heaviness of the inevitable
It is the ballast of conflict, fear and hate
Its weight takes everything in the fall
Hope, faith and joy all fail in its evolution
Before the powerless sovereign gate
Closed and locked
Imprisoning the spirit to...

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Fragments of 1972
David J Walker

I carry the year 1972 
in a leather messengers bag
That sags and strains the strap from my 
shoulder to my hip 
and I claim
to open it only 
once a year at midnight 
but that is a malleable lie
that has 
morphed as...

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