Best Incongruity Poems

Wise Enough to Know

I'm wise enough 
to know what I don't know
I think fast but my brain's slow
rivers of thought
cause my mind to flow
Still it...

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Fragility of Wealth
                    by Odin Roark

He...

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When my words rhyme
Oh how I love the crime
Such forgivable murder
Of words changing order

Tis not only sequence
For you have to make sense
Read between the lines
'Cause...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 53

Must appearance differ from reality
In as much as front and back of the same body
To negate existence in...

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Alone in his cell, an inmate said,
"Truly, I have escaped the baseness of humans-
that inveterate vice which condones condemnation.”
No longer will he mistake loathing for...

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“Yellow”

I pump the liquid
soap in the bathroom
How Sickeningly sweet it is
and although now it’s gone
I will carry it with me
as I drift off…..

Yellow
is the smell...

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P- pernicious injustice, 
terrorism perseverance and
E- ethnical intolerance
A- are in no way the 
solution to the
C- continual and 
persistence global,
E- economical incongruity! 
This

O- only serves...

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The Dragon Jar

What better place for fearsome beasts of fire
than airless thickets choked in green excesses
where weary soldiers stumble and aspire
for nothing more than living...

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That Secret Place That Glows



       Now alone she ponders the persuasive reality of emotive vulnerability

    ...

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The approbation for approval of a bountiful elicitation.

An evocation that is a stimulant. 

As it  calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behavior.

Thus,...

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And this is why
I have decided
To leave
It there

Incongruity meets ignorance
Your charms fall short
Your words scar
Unobtrusively

Insistently 
You choose to see
Through the lens
Of yourself, and
Nowhere close to...

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The incongruity sparkles, dirty diamonds in a drain,
With hackles rising, lips drawn back, in lemon peeling pain;
A psychodrama stage of sleight springboards the stupid head,
“I...

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The fall of sixty-three, an incongruity!
I saw myself on a Queen's float, a title rare -
"Miss Sorghum" of our Hancock County fair.
I aced the talent...

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As dawn breaks yet again
Red hues of victory days gone forever 
Now turn gray by the grimly grief 
Drip by drip, we lose everything we...

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They say in song it shan't be long
until our hearts shall meet.
And how I pray, most ev'ry day
that God might guide my feet.

For you are...

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