Best Oxymoron Poems
Below are the all-time best Oxymoron poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of oxymoron poems written by PoetrySoup members
Oxymoron AdviceOxymorons are cynical and fun.
Be careful though if you want to use one.
If it is familiar, it may sound quite trite.
Which murders your poem with...
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Categories:
oxymoron, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Worst Love Poem Ever WrittenI suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...
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Categories:
oxymoron, cancer, cry, death of
Form:
Elegy
Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent OneMy mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...
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Categories:
oxymoron, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Battle of the Sexesbattle of the sexes
~~MONA LISA SMILE
Picture Oil painting worthwhile
Leonardo DA Vinci, look out!
What is she really smiling about?
(((The popularity of the Mona Lisa increased...
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Categories:
oxymoron, funny, history, me,
Form:
Clerihew
An Interior Mechanism
Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.
I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life...
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Categories:
oxymoron, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Desperate Hope
There is an illusion of dishonesty in darkness,
so we rejoice when spring sings saccharine serenades.
I've always been a soul yearning for summer scents,
but somewhere the...
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Categories:
oxymoron, assonance, emotions, love,
Form:
Prose
Hazardous Hooves
Written: December 30, 2023
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Embrace the oxymoron, if you will.
Shall...
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Categories:
oxymoron, analogy, angst, bereavement, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Cloud WeaversLittle child
Your tiny hands hold a little flower
Delicately, you start weaving a story about peace
In your gentleness, you understand how happiness works
It is the sanctuary...
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Categories:
oxymoron, life, lost, love, spoken
Form:
Free verse
Love Waits PatientlyOh my beloved,
this life can be confusing.
A plethora of recycled emotions,
sometimes result in false devotions.
Absence wounds with nostalgic reflections.
Secluded souls yearning for old satisfactions.
Oh my...
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Categories:
oxymoron, love,
Form:
Narrative
One-Way Ticket To MidnightLet the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea
China taking over the sea...
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Categories:
oxymoron, death, war,
Form:
I do not know?
Infinitely RedundantIs science fiction an oxymoron?
How can science be fiction
When it is the process by which myth
Is eliminated and all that is tangible
In the world is...
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Categories:
oxymoron, imagination, science,
Form:
Narrative
Therapeutic DemocracyDemocracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.
Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.
Democracy seems like an empowering...
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Categories:
oxymoron, community, earth, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Dogma Or Mystery, Part TwoIt's ironic that 'dogma' simply once meant belief: something we hope is true but aren't certain of, as opposed to a fact. Now dogma means...
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Categories:
oxymoron, allusion, analogy, angst, appreciation,
Form:
Prose
Turning To Cicero"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and...
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Categories:
oxymoron, history, social,
Form:
Free verse
Creative ConformityCreative Conformity, an oxymoron.
No other explanation for I cannot fathom this term in any other way
What has already been, cannot be construed as creative.
And conformity...
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Categories:
oxymoron, art,
Form:
Free verse