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Best Illogical Poems

Below are the all-time best Illogical poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of illogical poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: illogical, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illogical, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magic of Colors
NB:  This is a repost, originally deleted.


The vermillion sunset has long dissipated 
Over the marine  persimmon horizon afar.
In the deep subterranean silence of...

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Categories: illogical, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
This Is My Anxiety
Falling asleep to illogical thoughts.
Seeing red or nothing but spots.
Heart racing toward the finish line.
Can't seem to catch that breath of mine.
A whooshing roar inside...

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Categories: illogical, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: illogical, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Potd Critic
The Poetry Critic

We have ourselves a critic on poem of the day
Like being a good parent, it’s not quite his forte
I think what we’re seeing...

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Categories: illogical, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Love You
falling blindly in Love.. the most logical                                     ...

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Categories: illogical, love, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Human Frailty
...Apologies to Heraclitus and W. H. Auden...

We, defeated by the merest things,
in defeat, endure...for now.

No abiding truth in faith:
origins and destinations
we cannot differentiate,
all random, unguided
by...

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Categories: illogical, angst, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Meaning of Life: Extinction Or Transcendence
Since humanity first became a sentient species, aware of time, space and its own mortality, there has been only one question that matters:are we just...

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Categories: illogical, appreciation, atheist, death, god,
Form: Prose
Kids Were Playing
Kids were playing outside, in the playground.
Swing, slide, sandbox and Mary-go-round.

One was sitting inside, with bottle in one hand.
Thought of things that will never be...

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© James Hou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illogical, addiction, anxiety, child, death,
Form: Imagism
The Vicious Cycle
I haven’t been here in a while
At this point in my life that is.
The point where something great becomes misconstrued
more filled with angst instead of...

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Categories: illogical, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Politely We Nod
Preposterous and illogical things
proffered as fact.  Unwilling to be fought,
politely we nod.  In time the lie clings.
Why hold to reason when we can...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: illogical, change, confusion, courage, culture,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rant With a Slant
I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional 
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical   
once...

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Categories: illogical, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Trillions of Stars
The universe is an endless expanse;
it's preposterous to think we're alone.
And as our technology advances,
we find alien calling cards in stone.

Suggesting intelligent life's out there,
ancient...

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Categories: illogical, destiny, earth, how i
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Stupid Poem
I love the word 'stupid'.
I really do!

By using this word
I can denote
actions
that are illogical
lack common sense
appear absurd
or …. are just plain 'stupid'.

I do not use...

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Categories: illogical, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

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