Extremes Poems - Poems about Extremes

In the nighttime hours As the world deftly creeps by I summon my powers Spread my wings and fly Past cotton clouds, Snow-capped mountains, white I am lost and I am found I am beauty and blight Past the midnight chimes A soul searching...Read the rest...

I operate in abundance of extremes, Flirtish to skittish; kind-hearted to mean I am a tolerant bigot or a emotional stoic Yet everyone around me don’t even know it The tug-o-war of conflicting interests Both teams in an endless...Read the rest...

The carpet has two sides The upper surface with patterns The underside plain It describes two worlds The rich and the poor The dignity and the informality The solemn and the ordinary The authority and the civilian The high reputation and the...Read the rest...

Approval's a craving, seeks even a smidge Conformity dictates no room to forgive Wealth is elusive, just over that ridge Fame's a hot flame that's intense but short-lived Faith's the assurance of things still unseen Hope, steadfast, certain for times...Read the rest...

Her love-life ruled by idyllic extremes romantic, passionate kisses on screens fairy-tale princes on stallions pale-cream Promises whispered on moonlit nights shoreline strolls under stars twinkling lights two lovers' eyes filled with amorous gleams Little wonder no...Read the rest...

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Water may be hard as ice Soft as steam Iron may be hard as mineral Soft as pills People can be good as saints Bad as ghosts Two extremes they may go Emotionally controlled or uncontrolled...Read the rest...

She asks me to rate my pain on a, He asks how much I love him on a, Now please rate your professor on a, What would you say your mood is on a One to ten scale, one...Read the rest...

Ah middle octave's musical note C, Balancing left-right hands, a resting point, And marked white all over the central key- Piano players do as it appoint. And beginners' first lesson, middling joint , Watering hole for fingers to return, To,...Read the rest...

Craziest time in virulent living when protest is black and white to erase ...Read the rest...

Explosion / Implosion, caught in the din Forces once pushing, now pull from within The physicist cries, as the mockingbird calls To see past tomorrow, today in freefall A binary motion of polar extremes All consciousness split —dark hole of my dreams (Villanova Pennsylvania: September,...Read the rest...

Yes, I talk to my cat... it’s good therapy and soothes her wandering...claws. Over the years I’ve exercised my imagination on her neurons. I’ve told here things you would not believe, it’s for a good laugh. She’s fascinated whenever the...Read the rest...

In this life, you cannot have both world's, no it can't be done. You choose one, either right or wrong, you win or you lose, you die or you live, you either keep on keeping on, or you keep on living...Read the rest...

Cafeteria Loud, boisterous Sweet-smelling, bread-making, cake-baking, Happy, well-fed, starving, hopeless Maddening, Saddening, Un-gladdening Quiet, Angry Homeless...Read the rest...

Escaping from boredom and frustration, you evade reality within dreams. Where, though you've never had a vacation, you can climb tall mountains and fish fast streams. Magic exists in the kingdom of sleep; it's a never-never land of your own. And...Read the rest...