Best Opposite Poems
Ugly me
Lovely you…
Unexpectedly steaming
Mist of two-way desire
With love
Only in darkness
I see light
I see stars
Twinkling in the sky
I see
The moon
Gracing the firmament
In sickness
I see health
In hunger
I see food
When downtrodden
I see joy
When alone
I seek companion
When hated
I seek love
Yin and Yang
That’s the way life is.
Thank, God
Humanity is moving
More toward Yang
The Light
I always see the desperation
And all lose of concentration
Whenever she is around
You can't speak or make a sound
She takes away your heart and breath
You get numb and scared to death
Wishing you were strong to tell
This devil she if full of hell
Making your life a hot mess
Leaving you in such distress
There is no way you could see
Past all the pain and misery
That I want to rescue you
From the hold she's got on you
Pulling you into a world
Everyday this loving girl
Will erase the bad love scenes
Replacing them with more serene
Memories you can enjoy
I will not be shy or coy
Making you sure and aware
There's no need to fret or fear
My love will never be cruel
Leaving you a battered fool
Like she made you long ago
Taking away your inner glow
That I want to resurrect
Assuring this love is perfect
For your heart to beat once more
As each minute I restore
Your faith that happiness exists
Giving your world what's been missed
and everything was opposite
like a mismatched pair of shoes
what I thought was coming
would be what I would lose
and everything was opposite
like looking into water
you'd think you'd see another dog
and drop your very last quarter
and everything was opposite
named well with tidings few
tomorrow was the same and
yesterday I thought anew
and everything was opposite
the love that in me burned
with no anticipation of
the apathy returned.
8/7/19
Clutching at Straws
Kai Michael Neumann, Sponsor
OPPOSITE SEX
Every morning I wake and gaze my lover in her face
Her eyes are close so tight
I wonder who she is dreaming of
Maybe in her sleep is the only place she forgives me.
In a bit, she will awake
Walking towards the shower
Her fresh smile in the morning is fake
I can smell her odor, like a flower.
How could I do this to you?
I know you are hurting everyday
With all the things I did to you
Thank you for not walking away.
Seeing as you get dressed in front of me
With a body so nice leaving me aroused
Afraid of you going your own way
Every time I see you leave with an open blouse
The harder I try to make it better
You gain authority over me
Holding you near in the cold weather
You push me away when you remember
You are the best thing that ever happens to me
How could I be so dumb with my stupidity
May be one day you will forgive
Without you I realize I cannot live
My days go by me very slow
The love for me, you no longer show
Lying by your side where you rest
You turn away before I turn off the light
I want to touch you with a nice soft caress
You say you are tired just about every night
I kiss your neck to see if you respond
You give me the cold shoulder as if we just had a fight
I touch your curves with my fingertips
Still, you do not give into my lips.
I beg you please do not make me wither away
You say you have nothing to say
Regretting what I did everyday
I am still deeply in love with you,
Without you I do not know what to do!!!
=====Opposite Sex=====
The other day
The same man
Who told me that
Men are the superior sex
Also asked me if I could
Be "less of a woman"
So that for once he could have
A "logical" conversation with me
Being the reasonable woman that I am
I responded with "Of course I can....t"
Because I am a woman
And I will not lessen that part of me
I am not ashamed of my femaleness anymore
If he was as much of a man he said he was
This superior sex that he claimed to be
I shouldn't have threatened him
With my as he called them "ignorant arguments"
He wouldn't have twisted his smirk
Into a pained frown
Instead of asking me to lessen myself
He would have lifted himself above me
Without any help from me...a woman
Right?
If men are the superior sex
Why would he ask me to help him?
Just to minutes ago I was nothing to him
His smug demeanor
And puffed up ego
Would have deflated once he found out
That he would need me for something
That he couldn't do
Because trust me
He tried to tear me down
He tried to break me but couldn't
So instead he attacked my being female
By trying to make me lessen myself
So he could have the most ultimate power he could
Forcing me an EQUAL to him
To destroy myself
And kill my own ego
So he could collect another casualty
To add to his broken self
The truth is that he never thought
He was the superior sex
He was just too afraid to accept the fact
That I was just like him
He realized that I could do to him
Exactly what he did to me
But what he didn't know
Is that I wouldn't dare
Because I would never expect
Man, woman or anyone in between
To shrink themselves
So I could be the bigger person
I would instead
Take a few steps back
And try to understand their point of view
And why it differed from mine
I would not ridicule them for being
Different from me
I would welcome them and all that they were
Into my arms
And build them up
If they ever felt
Like they would break down
Because I am not the superior sex
Or superior anything
I am just another human
I am just like you
In the middle of the universe, I stand
Wanting for everyone to be alive
When fear is conquered, everyone will be alive
The truth is revealed when bravery is set free
Medicine cures illness, everyone will be alive
Create a cool wave of healing to save
Able to fight terror, everyone will be alive
Will not bend to someone else's sender
When people find peace, everyone will be alive
End of war and pointless killing will be no more
As I watch I only want to see happiness and bliss
In the middle of the universe, I stand
Wanting for everyone to die
When all people show fear, everyone will die
Blazing balls of fright glowing so bright
As disease consumes, everyone will die
Hot flames of death with every last breath
Disabled by terror, everyone will die
Giving life to the invader's knife
On the day of the final war, everyone will die
As the final body falls the end of time calls
As I watch I want to see pain, suffering and death
Two opposite ways to look at life from the middle of the universe.
Form:
Silence not just opposite of voice
More of ear turning deaf to outside noise
Close ears to outside din
And hear subtle murmur within
Listen Heart beats in rhythm and rhyme
No music composer can beat the music divine
Listening same beats for sometime
Makes one slip in meditation anytime
One drops BODY then MIND falls
Weightless, thoughtless Light one feels
Slip one may in trance
Levitation one may experience
Eternal Bliss engulfing
As if in Heaven surfing
Longevity of blissful state, on practice depends
Veteran or amateur, sooner or later it ends
Silence ruptures, clamour overtakes whisper
Bliss vanishes, pang emerges
One day sound fails to impact hearing sense
That is when one is laid into permanent Silence
Silence of graveyard not just opposite of cry in maternity ward
More of listening to death than speaking of life as trump card
Silence not just opposite of voice
More of dropping body dead, aligning life suiting soul's choice
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© Hitendra Mehta
For Poetry Soup Contest
April 2011
The sticks on the hill
were brushed when they were wet,
Lay with a pattered smoothness,
The bushes 'round which they swept
Bulged their greenly leaves,
Stony stairs on an uphill way
creased a toe of the world.
Repeat:
"Not meat!"
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25 November 2017
An urgent message
to the children of God,
be wary of your loathing!
That person whom you condemn
might very well be
a sheep in wolves' clothing.
Men are unique, in their own way
Many stay young, and want to play.
Some work so hard, at what they do
To make our dreams, and wishes true.
Hidden talents, they do not show
Until you learn, and get to know.
Juggle or dance, and some can sing
Feelings of awe, sometimes they bring.
Hard to show, their romantic side
Stays bottled up, from us they hide.
Love prevails, their shyness gone
God had it planned, and wasn't wrong.
I go to bed too late and get up way too early,
I can't stand to sleep I fail at it very miserably.
I don't enjoy a cup of coffee with a donut on the side,
when I see my reflection I want to run and hide.
I enjoy the nightlife walking around downtown,
I am very at ease with strangers all around.
I enjoy doing laundry every single day,
“Yay there are dishes!”, in thanksgiving I pray.
I get annoyed when there's dust on the furniture,
I dislike siting and catching up on my literature.
I love grocery shopping anytime anywhere,
but cooking dinner I just don't seem to care.
My family can stress me out past my limit,
“I can't believe they won't leave! I am so intricate!”
The dog hair is spread all through out the house,
and yes I love our little guest a cute little mouse....
~See, the truth is that I am the polar opposite,~
I live a simple life, quiet and moderate.
I go to bed too early and wake up way too late,
sleep is my best friend, I'm sure many can relate.
My cup of coffee is a blessing with a chocolate donut,
looking in the mirror I don't mind seeing close up.
Going out late with drinking and dancing in the bars,
makes me sick to my stomach, I'd rather go to the park.
I literally pray every night for the laundry to go away,
I wish I could burn the dishes every single day.
The dust can pile up I could really care less,
grocery shopping is usually done by my hubby Nicholas.
Without my stacks of books I need to read daily,
dinner every night on the kitchen table is reality.
Without my family I would not be able to live,
for they are my number one priority all I want is to give.
The dog hair can be vacuumed that's really no big deal,
so what, maybe that little mouse isn't even real.
See, the truth is that is really who I am,
I live a simple life...I'm an easy going madame.
~Written By: Laura Loo~
~Date Written: March 24, 2016~
The word is Catadromous
just in case you need it for
your Final Jeopardy and if
I was writing rhyme, this is
where I’d throw in cantankerous
for Eels are a contrary lot, and
unlike salmon who spawn in
freshwater; eels spawn in the
ocean, the Sargasso Sea to be
precise, then the larvae catch
a ride on the Gulf Steam and
the elvers ascend rivers on both
sides of the Atlantic, where they
grow for twenty years or so before
the mature eels head downstream
to their faraway mating ground.
As a student working on the
Ottawa River, we’d always get
a few in the night seine hauls.
But now they’re on the Endangered
Species List, at least in part because when
heading downstream, the adults must pass
through a series of Hydro dams, where they
get chopped up by the turbines and while
changing to dear old Archimedes’ screw
could reduce the chopping, the mods
are too expensive, and other factors like
PCB’s, dioxins, and other nasty chemicals
might be involved factors as well or
maybe shifts on the Gulf Stream
with Global Warming have made it
harder for the larvae and elvers
to find their rivers and probably
it's all of the above - nobody really
knows and it’s all eels under the dam..
Cute pet runs all day
Tries to fill the gaps between
Two opposite walls