Best Contrary Poems

Snow fell in dollops, in kite like laziness
too wet to stay white except in the margins.
The contrary air kisses each flake
melting each heart of ice.
Bittersweet the temperature falls.
Teardrops cling to greedy braches
reminiscent of hand stitched jewels
on a queen's gown.
The matted margin of lingering grass
crisps like...

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Time can be counted in milliseconds
Pay attention
To the cracks in the pavement
Where the sand grains no longer held their cement

The proverbial elephant
Resides in a matchbox of contented intent

And measure by micrometers
The distance of hairs
As a tiny mote floats into a sea of stars
Still wondering where...

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Mary, Mary quite contrary, tell me, how does your garden grow?

Please tell me why you are so successful - I really need to know!

I hoe and spade and fertilize and sow the very best of seeds,

But try as I may, all I can grow are...

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A social worker bashed in my door,
seizing my kids on rumors
of bath time photographs.
On my trek to court
to rescue my children,
they forced me through
a biometric scanner
recording every detail
of my naked flesh.

I was lambasted by a judge garbed
in flowing black vestments
for exploiting innocence.
He paraded my babies
into...

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Our world of existing contraity

         compression,depression,high anxiety

        as the complexion changes our society.......

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Contrary Mary

There once was a boat named “Mary”
She towed many a barge as a ferry.
One day she was mad.
She groaned; she was bad.
And that's why the folks call her, "Contrary.”

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 7, 2010
Poetic form:  Limerick...

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Number 17

CONTRARY WAYS



Pun and paradox frame
The extra serving of wit
Ego retains fake name
In surge of lies that fit




Leon Enriquez
04 January 2015
Singapore...

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Watch wise words wave well
Do describe dream dwell
Touch teary tensed tell


Attract apt allure
Phoenix plunging pure
Spread something so sure

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Placid peace pulse pours
Dye dying death's door
Glimpse glamour galore


Dusty days dreaming
Final form fleeting
Ghost grasps grin going

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Leon Enriquez
04 April 2015
Singapore...

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Fate flavours forfeit
Primal play proceeds
Sly street-smart succeeds


Move meek memory
Stains streaking slowly
Echoes end easy

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Fuss freaks form frozen
Dig deeper dozen
Meet miasma molten


Lead laughter lumpy
Brine bleaches bumpy
Seek sure sobriety

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Leon Enriquez
21 March 2015
Singapore...

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Freeze-frame final fate
Lust losing life late
Grandeur grooming gate


Tensile tact treats take
Soon soaring sweepstakes
Wonderland waits wake

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Breath bursting boom bloom
Grasp greets grouse's grim gloom
Ripe rest retrieves room


Troubles taking toil
Style solemn sad spoils
Broken bearing boil

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Leon Enriquez
09 April 2015
Singapore...

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I am a liberal conservative
who is confident when nervous.
Living as a pessimistic optimist,
I imagine what the worst is
only to quickly dismiss this.
As a depressed, joyous person
my moods are rarely self-chosen.
My dumbness is quite intelligent
and both are often equally lent
to my love I freely see spent.
Fragile...

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I am the vastness of the cosmos,
Made to be mortal from parts of Immortality
I live within spirit and my body's a host,
My Heart is home and my mind in endless journey.

I am an observer, a listener.
A machine of filters, receiver and transmitters,
Burn out my resistors...

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Brave bold butterfly
Wander wonders why
Strange sadness supplies


See swirling smoke stacks
Lustre's loss looms lack
Sense sublime shore slack

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Time tells trouble tales
Hurl hoarse hefty hails
Sad story soon sails


Pride paints pretty prompt
Reap ripe richer romps
Death dazzles dry dorm


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Leon Enriquez
20 March 2015
Singapore...

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Arabic:  (Alam) meaning "world" or "universe"

A character of a madman has a role in the play. 
Henceforth, the casting was done,
Alam, the madman, to mentor in the acting,
the wanderer in the graveyard area
his folded sleeves hold the world, in fullest.
Throughout days, one might notice
his...

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Mary Mary quite contrary
Stays inside when it is dreary
She won’t water the plants
Or pull the weeds
She won’t thin the carrots
Or sow the seeds
She doesn’t till the soil 
Or push the plow
She just sits on the couch
With her cat Meow....

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