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Incongruity Poems - Poems about Incongruity

Magnum Opus
...Cantankerous cancers found my blood letting from the slit, Is it avarice of me to desire the love begetting of Lazarus? Enjoying life cadaverous like forgetting the want to live, Is it glamorous......

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Categories: incongruity, absence, addiction, anxiety, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musings on aversion
...averse to noise people talking loudly whilst yet accepting what is we make peace with incongruity recognising the looming gap between desire and reality yawn and then move on averse to rel......

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Categories: incongruity, introspection, nonsense, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Enigma
...I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which. ~James A. Owens Am I a conundrum or am I an enigma? You told me once long ago, but now I forget which, and why sh......

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Categories: incongruity, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Derailed
...Cups on their hooks rattle the train rumbles through the town icebergs crack and fall off the roof, they crash through two stories of chilled air. Dad heaves himself off the sofa, empty plate ......

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Categories: incongruity, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zen mode
...borne of ignorance an incongruity arises causing a ripple in the void witnessed without judgment thus offering no anchor for discord or rancour staid silence smiles......

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Categories: incongruity, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sheer Fear
... Sheer Fear Pink horizons mollifies probing eyes as clouds dissipate above To the heavens bow gratitude where migrant b......

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Categories: incongruity, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Propinquity - First Place Contest Winner
...Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Germaine Greer In the orbit of ne......

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Categories: incongruity, analogy, appreciation, care, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Word Play
...Alas, my wife, your verbose superfluity Displays an obstinate incongruity It's just word play hide and seek Be succinct when you speak Ok—you're a pompous ass in perpetuity! 10/21/22......

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Categories: incongruity, humor,
Form: Limerick
Whar Art Thou Dame of My Dream
...Whar art thou dame of my dream? Eagerness readily overtakes me prior to succumbing to nightly slumber. Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed adrift abed invariably occurs counting b......

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Categories: incongruity, absence, addiction, allusion, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Jean Michel Basquiat
...This intelligent artist had internal incongruity Brilliant genius prancing around in his head Was he having a psychotic break? I followed him to outer limits well fed. Unlimited by one language......

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Categories: incongruity, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hitchhiker From Another World Part 2
...Or the fate that awaits one at journey’s end. Like all distances I suppose. My destination if you can call it that is another world altogether." A lady who could structure her sentences with t......

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Categories: incongruity, art, beautiful, beauty, deep,
Form: Prose
Tennebratum
...on the uneven slope that surrounds the immense hole where the living fire crackles, there is a kind of pretty steep trail, in it you see dry bushes, burned and twisted with huge thorns at th......

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Categories: incongruity, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transformation
...Your story begins with a promise prime On plateau of life a furrow you blaze In dawn sky like the golden sun you climb A shooting star across night sky you graze. Surging storms strike, snatch......

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Categories: incongruity, analogy, change, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Spirit Seems Wrecked
...I humbly beg of thee, o death, come speedily! I'm feeble with everyone, so let's rumble leniently. Whatever you handle, start coming down, O destiny. And to alleviate the acute pain......

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Categories: incongruity, analogy, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Monorhyme
Simple As That
...I would like to think I am a simple soul but that is a complexity of paradoxes; I was born in a conflict between two parents neither of which desired a child yet, there I was, a conc......

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Categories: incongruity, age, love hurts, time,
Form: Free verse

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