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Incongruity Poems - Poems about Incongruity

Incongruity Poems - Examples of all types of poems about incongruity 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 incongruity.
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: incongruity, age, love hurts, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Secret Place That Glows
...That Secret Place That Glows Now alone she ponders the persuasive reality of emotive vulnerability The stranger vanished while magical moments persisted and lingered on S......Read the rest...
Categories: incongruity, courage, heartbroken, hope, journey,
Form: Rhyme

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