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Absurdities Poems - Poems about Absurdities

Premium MemberA Good Sense of Humor Blunts the Sharp Blades of Reality

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Harsh is life’s reality.
Each trial we endure is a sword of steel
that pierces the jagged edges
of our imperfect souls.

We cannot escape
the occasional slashes from life’s rapier
that fall ...
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Categories: absurdities, humor, life,
Form: Free verse

A Distant Shore

...A Distant Shore



Beached upon a distant shore I wondered about my life 

Beseeched by solitude all I could pour out was sadness & strife 

I reached for something in the distance that looke...
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Categories: absurdities, life,
Form: Rhyme



A Distant Shore

...A Distant Shore

Beached upon a distant shore I wondered about my life 
Beseeched by solitude all I could pour out was sadness & strife 
I reached for something in the distance that looked like i...
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Categories: absurdities, life,
Form: Rhyme

This Sceptred Isle

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In 1773 the sun never set
on the British Empire so goes the story
now the 'Teatime Islands'
crumbs of Great Britain’s former glory
but as the moon rose over the White Cliffs of Dover
s...
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Categories: absurdities, animal, england, humorous, raven,
Form: Rhyme

Message To The Blackman

...If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our p...
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Categories: absurdities, africa, black love, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberBetween Reality and Understanding

...A thought arose...

In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!

While S...
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Categories: absurdities, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberREALITY REVEALED

...REALITY REVEALED *
dilemma
 of
  integrity
sensuality
  conflicts
with curbed
desire

irony
in
 self-effacement
ephemeral
& by chance
 emotional
& dramatic
  objective
an
   influen...
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Categories: absurdities, poetry, word play,
Form: Other

Premium MemberSupernature

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"Supernature"

The walls have eyes here 
they are all hungry
they reach up to pluck words 
like apples to eat from sacred trees,
it feeds and fuels them 
on their irr...
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Categories: absurdities, i am, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnder the vault of memory, where silences are dressed in echoes

...Under the vault of memory, where silences are dressed in echoes,
I beg you, let your memory dance among us, unbounded.
When I open your book, a collection of fragments,
My hand navigates through p...
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Categories: absurdities, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCosmic Stoicism: a Carnival of Absurd Wisdom

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In stoic carnival, emotions juggle,
laughter somersaults on a tightrope of reason.
Epictetus, ringmaster, dons a clown's nose,
philosophy as whimsical sideshow.

Stoicism, circus tent of parad...
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Categories: absurdities, fate, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Nudism - the Important Issue of the Hour

...It is difficult to get rid of the false self
A believable mask has taken years to develop
Such safety precautions demand extensive disguising
Dear i ask, why can't we all be living in the bare?

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Categories: absurdities, africa, art, books, internet,
Form: Didactic

Ok Sherlock Friendly Computer

...Of all the absurdities in this our current
tumultuous mixed up times

So many of which it would take
a lifetime to mention but a few

Given that right here on this very
planet we are resident ...
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Categories: absurdities, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRun For Your Life

...Have I got my glasses
And my hearing aid
My bottle of mineral water
No fizzy lemonade
I cannot find my handbag
Or my money purse
Putting on my shoes
Have made my bunions worse
I have a box of...
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Categories: absurdities, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFoolish Adsurdities

...I am thoroughly disgusted by foolish absurdities
From morons who wallow in conspiracy theories
Who try, indeed, to convince us the earth is flat,
And NASA didn’t land on the moon, t...
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Categories: absurdities, corruption, perspective, truth,
Form: Couplet

Walpurgis

...A Night of Walpurgis
By Sy Roth

The April moon hung in the sky
Full, like nightshade fighting off the darkness
The strident masses hung about the street corners
Chests puffed out readying to r...
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Categories: absurdities, allegory, anger,
Form: Free verse

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