Alive Still Poet Free verse

She is a walking juxtaposition

She is a walking juxtaposition:

Amicable qualities dressed in futility, far-fetched pictorial in a living illustration, painstakingly carefree—a telltale tribulation.

Ambivalence irks aptitude.

Foreshadowing scurries in a frenetic gambit, a stratagem of the devil himself.

This oddity is a fleck, resurgent in its nature—a drop of dew, a grain of sand.

Do all you must to bait her,
debate her.

Commotion, admonish, plaudit.

The audacity of her tacit agreements.

Such abysmal fervor could be the making of a luminary.

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Alison A Smith August 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM A striking free-verse portrait built from paradox, charged diction, and sudden tonal shifts. The repeated premise of juxtaposition unfolds through vivid abstractions and compact, aphoristic lines, giving the speaker’s subject an enigmatic, almost mythic presence. The closing image of a luminary leaves a compelling sense of possibility within the confusion.