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Best Antithetical Poems

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Categories: antithetical,
Form: I do not know?



Antithetical
ANTITHETICAL

What would you do if offered affordable beach property?
Sounds good... lest supposing proviso be toxic wasteland and poverty
Prospects of owning transformed – the choice unappealing
Investment...

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Categories: antithetical, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Creative Writing
I often think of the sea,
not so much of vastness
but of depth, and what I
can't see, all the life just
beneath the surface – sort
of like,...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antithetical, literature, perspective, poetry, sea,
Form: Free verse
Entropy
A dignified statesman, 
A deified ‘Godman,’
A glorified star (of films or sports)
All tumble—
After a Starr report 
Or an HIV test 
Or a dope test.
Or maybe...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antithetical, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of Eco-Educational Vocations

Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?

Oh, I see..ecosystemic learning and mentoring,
including pedagogical development systems
doing the best we...

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Categories: antithetical, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Empowering Passion
In passionate psychology,
powers of proactive compassion
are generally thought of in personal
and familial
interdependently relational
perspectives.

In political science,
large-scale powers for proactive compassion
resist reactive competition to merely overpower the...

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Categories: antithetical, caregiving, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Unconditional Love
What condition is my condition in?
said Yang to Yin.

Unconditional love of enemies,
antagonists,
annoying pests with equally annoying ideas 
of their own
about how you should be and...

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Categories: antithetical, environment, fear, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverse Behaviorism
LeftBrain thought powers 
follow RightBrain warm light and cold dark feelings.

Like behavior follows beliefs
follow repeated warm/cold rituals
follow entrenched belief networks
building walls between appositional changes
of positive/negative...

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Categories: antithetical, green, health, integrity, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Superlatives
SUPERLATIVES

S  uperlative sentiments subliminally stupefy- salubrious solitude

U  niquiviocal uproariously unconventional, uninhibited, unabashed

P  reposterously pedantic, precarious pandemics, perilous pandemonium 

E  uphoria exemplified,...

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Categories: antithetical, words,
Form: Free verse
The River
A river dividing two disparate lands, 
Perspectives so contrasting, separate they stand: 
A physical land, full of logic and sense, 
And one metaphysically deep and...

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Categories: antithetical, magic, philosophy, science, wisdom,
Form: Didactic
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative
Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited

healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive 
in...

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Categories: antithetical, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path...

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Categories: antithetical, abuse, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conspiracy of Violence
Nationalism,
nation supremacy,
rooted in competing patriarchal capital rivalries,
is entirely incompatible with EarthPatriotism
rooted in loyalty to cooperatively healthy matriotism

Wherever MotherEarth may yet be healthy climate rediscovered
in sensory...

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Categories: antithetical, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Trump Against Conservatives
What are some differences
between post-millennial Trumpism
and pre-millennial Republicanism?

I know...I know!
Republicans used to be fiscal conservatives
but now support a one trillion dollar deficit
per unaffordable health and...

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Categories: antithetical, abuse, bullying, caregiving, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Starry Eyed Cloud of Surreal Angels
starry eyed cloud of surreal angels

utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense

(compensated with...

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Categories: antithetical, appreciation, april, crazy, joy,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs