Best Reversal Poems

His hands clasped tightly, one in mine, one in mother's. Days of baby steps made us nod in encouragement -- we let go. Daddy took his first balanced steps post crash. A memory of joy, watching him walk again.

dad's first leap of hope
puddles of joy...

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My garden work was once pure joy
when shared with my girl and boy.
The toil was slight.

Now that I do the job alone
it truly tires me to the bone,
an old age plight.


By: Joyce Johnson
For Dr. Mehta's  "Tail Rhyme" Contest...

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Am I wrong to ponder
Just how inconsiderate we are
From where we used to be
Today we think we're stars

Trust me we're no twinkle
In anybodies eyes,
frankly
Internally we should despise

Simply look how we treat the innocent
When they'll never produce our whatever
Meaning means that
Inhumane, as humans sever

Lets just close...

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Amidst the chaos and conventions
The political ads with evil intentions
The truth was twisted and left to die
Watch the rich man laugh and the poor man cry
We had conservatives in our youth
Who had some connection to the truth
Power and greed, corruption and deceit
Have taken the battle...

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I knelt down and did up her zipper -
Mum struggles with her sight you see
She kissed me gently on the top of my head 
and said
 ‘things I did for you as a child ...
now you do for me’



12th April

The above happened yesterday - I...

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Many years ago I lost a friend...
 memories of her will never end !
All the times we spent together
are now etched in my mind forever !

It wasn't perfect all the time...
yet our relationship was prime !
Mother and daughter through the years,
wiping away each other's tears...

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You
Got to know
Love
Lord...

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Over and over again, I am losing track.
Opportunities wasted with tears, sweat and blood,
chances blown into smithereens, a breached contract
like explosives ready and done but all went dud

A table once bountiful, every dish and ware,
aroma of extravagance, hard to resist,
array of choices from platter after...

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Teeth sans groundnut
See now reversal of fate-
Groundnut sans teeth....

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It lies in wait of Allah’s time the time that
    Neither advances nor declines the
         Time to shroud sour faces 
             ...

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If teachers were students,
They would certainly be prudent.
 
When they would get a teacher free class,
They would certainly be seriously studious.
 
None to dictate and lecture the class,
Would let them hit the books obviating usual fuss.
 
If their freedom limit is even infinite,
Classroom is “Pin...

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Maybe a role reversal would be in order
And us guys could take it or leave it
Whatta mind-blowing experience that would be
The ladies simply couldn't conceive it

Exciting? You ain't just whistling Dixie
There's a stirring deep down in my loins
Sexual in nature maybe my jockeys are too...

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The Omnipotent Hand knows what is best;
Man sees himself and nature at blind spot.
Now in a sine graph we are at the crest.
Yes, a turning point is what we have got!

The Hand constructed a clean house for us,
But we cook what we eat in the...

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saunter through the rain
hoping no one sees you’ve cried
or spots your black eye
shift the blame from him to you
his torment you don’t deserve

each time he hit you
he told you it was your fault
ego deflated
you believed the lies he told
as he hid behind his mask

his anger...

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Instead of fluffy snow, it's steady rain;
cherry trees have blossomed in Brooklyn,
so did the tulips along Sheepshead bay...
even New Jersey has seen Nature in play!

Unlikely last year when all was white, this Christmas
won't have any snow to make everything bright;
children's eyes will sadly gaze from...

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