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Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: oxymorons, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Oxymorons
Paltry poetic presidential prattlings on poultry playing
  cockalorums chasing chickens, censured to castigate the cockerals,
   tricky tray turbo turkey tidbits tentanize the...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oxymorons, america, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Alone Together - Oxymorons
Alone together, we enjoy our time
   and mostly we act naturally well.
We can be seriously funny too,
   but deafening silence is...

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Categories: oxymorons, fun, word play,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Principles of legitimacy
Is there an eternal metaphor for love?
Is forever a sinful oath abandoned in
an archive of poems with alienated alliteration.
Hidden behind simile and ironic verses?

Why does...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oxymorons, angst, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lyrical Acrolect
P o e t r y fills my heart 
with lyrical acrolect:
slowly swaying 
my fingers
   to outstanding octaves, 
through 
  ecstatic 
...

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Categories: oxymorons, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Like a Poet Would Do
Let me love you like a poet would do.
Let me bite on the lid of my pen, thinking of you.
Let me write you down on...

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Categories: oxymorons, love, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Write You Something.
Let me write you a poem.
A poem so great Bukowski would give me a hats off-
And hand me a beer.
A poem so well-written, John Mayer...

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Categories: oxymorons, loveme, write, me, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa!
This thrill? that can kill……
Ride……..
	Feeeellll the WINDddwindddddddddd
WHIP..whip*~~~~~~~
	your skin.
G forces of sensation
	PRIMEprime the PUMPpump* for the 
s e n s oaaaaaaaaaaaaaaary ~~~
deprived

Air gasping open gilled
	life near.....

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Categories: oxymorons, adventure, death, life, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Live With Oxy Morons
In my global village, Oxy, where folks live all alone,
There’s lots of open secrets, for secrets are well-known!

Fairly dark alien residents live with us above...

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Categories: oxymorons, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Oxymoron Advice
Oxymorons 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: oxymorons, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen Math
Listen up and learn deep,
said the non-existential Zen Math teacher.
I'm only saying this once
and it will be on tomorrow's test
now nearly finished today.

1. All nomials...

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Categories: oxymorons, humor, math, philosophy, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Out For a Spin
I take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.


FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding...

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Categories: oxymorons, gender, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Awfully Nice- Oxymoron Contest
she had a smile upon her face
people wondered what secret she had inside 
she had kissed and cuddled shyness no trace
does that make me nearly...

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Categories: oxymorons, girl, nice,
Form: Rhyme
Easy Cheesy
EASY CHEESY AND EASY AS PIE are not really so easy
Peach, pumpkin, plum perfection-Pie
Always Alliteration and Anchovies
Wouldn't work in a good Pie
Banana, coconut, and blueberry...

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Categories: oxymorons, foodwork, work,
Form: Free verse
Das Decrements Describe Digs
Das Decrements Describe Digs ©

Grasping figurative literary straws
     poetic theme yielded
     farfetched aggregate
i.e., where each dwelling
 ...

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Categories: oxymorons, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs