Antonyms Poems

The Congamphlgh Caller

...A mysterious, spiritual poem possibly unconsciously already heard by you, if you're already swimming in the deep red rivers of poetry, writing or just creating something.

A mysterious voice offeri...
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Categories: antonyms, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTHE ABSURDITY OF WARRING FOR PEACE

...Evilly absurd,
Bombing lives doesn’t win peace;
Just wishful power:-
War and peace are antonyms.
You can’t make them synonyms:-

War can not bring peace,
Just collateral damage,
And high deat...
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Categories: antonyms, allegory, death, life, love,
Form: Tanka


The Prismatic Self

...I write because silence was a tyrant
with a velvet muzzle.
Because childhood was a soundproof cage,
and I was taught to swallow every scream
like communion.

“Poetry is not therapy,”
the judge...
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Categories: antonyms, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberantonyms

...I’m finally going to get on that platform
on the 18th of next month,
for a first-time, one-time performance.
The once, seemingly impossible will come fully true, 
which seems like a lot narrative...
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Categories: antonyms, appreciation, courage, future, graduation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJews Harp - A Reflection On Turmoil

...I take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings...
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Categories: antonyms, inspirational, introspection, life, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue


The Unappreciated Woman

...Just take a good look at me;
My frame is attractive!
It does the unsated
appetite of the chauvinist
fuel.
My curves and your fantasies
are mutually inclusive!
Without them, dreams
are truncat...
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Categories: antonyms, abuse, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSeductress

...I was fine in my bubble
just some Moses in my own parting
and yes, you ruined my thoughts
and spun me in antonyms 

I always wondered 
why I prayed for apocalypse before sleep
and waking up, s...
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Categories: antonyms, deep, earth, green, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEmpty Words

...Empty words

Have no 

Opposites

Or similarities

Paradoxically..

While words

Seem to  

Always suggest

Those antonyms 

And synonyms 

Dictionary bound

An empty word

Is...
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Categories: antonyms, appreciation, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberThe Antonyms and the Synonyms

...To debate
To rebel
The antonyms monopolize
To express
To support
The synonyms monopolize
And now the child memories both
And never distinguishes between them
The positives from the negatives ...
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Categories: antonyms, education, simile, violence, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Are Words - a Florilegium Poem

...What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but h...
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Categories: antonyms, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other

Premium MemberBrocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem

...The root word for religion is not kind – 
Latin verb that means to tie or to bind – 
as it tends to play tricks on anyone’s mind. 

For some, the edicts lash; they merc...
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Categories: antonyms, introspection, poetry, religion,
Form: Other

Premium MemberMindful

...Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in t...
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Categories: antonyms, blessing, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSacred V Corporate Cultures

...What is your opposite
for SACRED?

for sexually unscared
unscarred
unscrambled?

SECULAR, I suppose.

Secularization
sounds like desecration,
As sanctification
sounds divinely cooperative...
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Categories: antonyms, culture, earth, health, power,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberThe Rare Rainbow At Night

...The Rare Rainbow at Night
David J Walker


by the hundreds 
my regrets gather in the
cul-de-sac end of each day
each with its own number
each its own name and 
definition connected to 
a li...
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Categories: antonyms, allegory, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme

Spoken Spindrift

...The ocean speaks  in poetry
Syllables slammed into the sand, sounding out the tides
Like a language uttered by ancient beings
Ripples flicker from the shore, forming words that echo in the crash o...
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Categories: antonyms, beach, poetry, sea, words,
Form: Free verse

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