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"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."~ Rumi

Dear Diary,

I’m a hopeless romantic, 
a sentimental sonnet
  scribbled from the 
  silent heartstrings 
of a mysterious muse....

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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 titillations;
wild wispy winds whisper worldly wasted wiry winsome wiles 
  dancing delights deluding delicate demigod domiciles,
twittering tweets teasing tenacious...

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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 hard to quell.

Found missing sometimes, a minor crisis of
   impossible solutions that are made,
like eating tasty, tender jumbo...

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Categories: oxymorons, fun, word play,
Form: Verse

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A Collection of Oxymorons
A Collection of Oxymorons

By Elton Camp

When contradictory terms appear side-by-side,
We recognize that an oxymoron the writer tried

An “Open secret” really can’t be
“Larger half” is an impossibility

“Act naturally” just has to be fake
“Deafening silence” sense can’t make

“Microsoft Works” is just a big joke
But Apple users won’t...

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Categories: oxymorons, funnyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oxymorons
“Now then, may I ask a question?” sounds pretty ugly.
It’s almost exactly perplexing as a calculated error,
Or an easy problem posed by that living fossil of a teacher.
Most students with an apathetic interest would agree to disagree
That the quantum leap required to solve this needs...

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Categories: oxymorons, humor, irony,
Form: Free verse
Oxymorons of Note
Political Science
Temporary Tax
Blind Justice
Racial Harmony
Eternal Youth
Honest Lawyer, Car salesman etc.
Utopian Society
Egalitarian Government
Free Lunch...

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Categories: oxymorons, children, humorous,
Form: Free verse




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