Best Juxtaposes Poems

Jazz Pleiades

Just feelin’ kind of blue
Jazzy blues harmony
Joined modal indigo
Juxtaposes smooth joy -
Jaunty jives splashing notes -
Jiven’ through the moonlight -
Jeweled mood reflections

10-14-20
Contest: Pleiades – Music
Sponsor: Joseph May
Dedicated to Miles Davis; Kind of Blue
Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo...

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You ask, Do I believe in miracles? Have I seen healing outside the Bible?
Is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit accessible –
To me and you, beyond the Book of Acts, after Pentecost -
Is the age of signs and wonders gone with John the Baptist?
I have...

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Quiet juxtaposes sound;
a time when mute thoughts abound.
And though quiet may seem rare,
it can be found anywhere.

Quiet resides in stillness,
a respite from life's shrillness.
From cell phones to children's toys;
we get bombarded by noise.

Quiet's a sanctuary;
when chaos becomes scary.
And quiet's a peaceful state;
that regulates your heart...

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No matter how or what you write:
A myth, a melodrama or a mystery,
About your life or a dreadful night
In a poem, a song or a short story;

Write in a manner to evoke pathos,
And in matter to mirror a tragedy,
Establish a sincere sense of ethos
Whether you...

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Kind of Blue in Mood Indigo

Feelin’ kinda blue irony ~
Jazz harmony
In wailing rifs
Of blues mischief

Modal mood indigo moonlight
Jives at midnight ~
Juxtaposes 
Notes with roses

Jeweled mood rhythmic expression
Of reflection -
Songs ingénue
In dusky blues

Inspired by the iconic jazz pieces Kind of Blue and Mood Indigo

7-23-21
Contest: Twelve Lines...

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In today's sunlight bleached ... The woman sit
Covered by modernity in a complex view -
Of purple printed dress exhaling his wit:
A purple bag juxtaposes the old with new
She seems to sit on the lowest green rows
Of hill, her mocassin boots in a blue shade
All her...

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Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling 
              bitter southerly wind still bites 
              sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the...

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Rude awaakenings
passive resistances
offset reposes
nominal com-pre-poses
clattering synopsis
reflective rejections
loveless offerings 
sentient longings
goober finales
creepy filings
jubrient jiltings
assinine intentions 
cooperative unintentions
lazy notions
graded offerings
misguided annotations
guilded gonads
perserverant punishments
unabridged miscellaneous
assertive nothings
blinded essentials
ill acquaintances
riddled resentments
staved sequences
toiled romances
piss pot potentials
dragged molecules
finite measures
copious credentials
minor mirrors
killed desires
zoned inadequacies
victim gags
witless endeavors
yearless covenants
useless touches
homely juxtaposes
unfiled females
tattered testosterone
monumental misguidedness
aperture unfocused
twitterpatted...

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Don't let pride
Guide your stride
Instead take a ride
On the straight and narrow 
And let righteousness be your row
Down the river we know as life
Speak with peace not strife
Speak with a feather not a knife
Speak with grace not spite   
Speak to reason and not...

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Keep life simple and supple
When aside from your dimples you brush conundrum
For joys to triple or quadruple
To the beat at the feet of laughter’s drum

Whose percussion glorifies and ratifies
Happiness in all her splendor and majesty
As happiness against odds defies
The travesty of dishonesty in the sacristy...

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Down where the Rain Lilies blossom
Rain drops drip from roses
Spider Lilies dance to rain's song
Color juxtaposes 

Spider Lilies of deep orange
Spider Lilies of white
Delicate petals curled upward
Morning beauty delight 



Finis'
Started July 08, 2013...

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Cool liquid drizzles down from the skies
upon the riot of hues and tints
that stretch forth from verdant fields
I see crimson colored rhodos,
crepe paper orange poppies, and
sunshine daffodils
each distinct in it's own form and fashion
decorated to grace the backdrop of my mind-

such a beautiful and lovely...

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Reason bare of structure like a storm
Ovulating in an angry sea
Stir sedition and juxtaposes its norm
Ego-wise against a season's glee
Latent turbulence primed with insecurity
Drizzled from a tempestuous sun
Altar of a sadist's alternating history

Gulp your blustering track to the mark
Rendered as God's boundary
Exert not your vain...

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Just like humans, Janus
Juxtaposes two sides
Jared in the same vessel,
Just the name, “gatekeeper”,
Jettisons his salient
Justly potent power,
Janus is lord of time.


Syllable count: HMS
February 26, 2022....

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they put us
side by side
on a shelf

turning our
keys at the
same time

but we each
have different
tempos as we

motionlessly
pose in stance
atop our music

boxes and turn
merry go round
as if to dance

you a ballerina
me a frog with
tux and tails

top hat cane
complete
Puttin' on the

Ritz which
juxtaposes
though we're

both on one
leg your form
is balanced...

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