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Best Topsy Turvy Poems

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Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsy turvy, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Grinning Cheshire Cat
What lies behind that grimacing catty coy smile, it’s upside down
Thinking perplexes me mentally, topsy-turvy confusions beastly
Kitty, popping off riddles to confound all humanity’s realistic
Way...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsy turvy, adventure, animal, cat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I Sing To Eternity
To an unmet friend:


You see the mortal world
and for you man is machine,
little more than a device
for the vagaries of evolution.
Faith is illusion, hope lacks
weight--...

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Categories: topsy turvy, analogy, beauty, celebration, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oceanic Blues
How grand it is when blue sky meets the sea,
may sky and sand and water ever be,
reflected in this topsy-turvy lea.
Oh, let the stars fall...

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Categories: topsy turvy, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rain
They say when it rains it pours,
and I say:     Does it ever!
For I remember such a time as that.
It was a...

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Categories: topsy turvy, life,
Form: Free verse



Lovelore
What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit 
nights in a...

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Categories: topsy turvy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ending At the Beginning
Backwards became forward
Up became down
What I thought was square
Turned out to be round

Some who I thought loved me 
Turned out to be foes
Twelve dozen roses
Not...

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Categories: topsy turvy, christian, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Quatrain
Where Are My Dolls
Little sweet Lucy..four years..so small. 
Her pink teddy bear.. and her Barbie doll. 
Pushed strollers of fun. ..in traipse of malls. 
Then a Topsy turvy...

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Categories: topsy turvy, child, death, destiny, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member First Poem In Like 86 Years
Let’s not forget our calmer gods,
Our babies flooding over our bodies while
Lying on the small and colorful living room rug.
Bug-eyed joy darting into my soul...

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Categories: topsy turvy, parents,
Form: Free verse
Disarray
Struck by chaotic lightning, 
fear of unknown fields of turmoil,
feeding my desire to break free from
the confusion I once wore like silk.

Cluttered mind full of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsy turvy, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
If You Would Let Me
If you would let me:
I would hold your hand and walk beside you on this topsy-turvy path called “life”

If you would let me:
I would clone...

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Categories: topsy turvy, lost love, love, day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upside Down - Inside Out
UPSIDE DOWN
inverted, topsy-turvy
unhinging, disorienting, confusing
puzzle, somersault; details, viscera
twisting, wearing, turning
front to back, socks
INSIDE OUT

written October 10, 2021...

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Categories: topsy turvy, conflict, confusion, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Bananas
Bananas

Here come the sailors of the Seventh Fleet
With their bananas ripe, ready to eat
The ladies, they like them firm
Musty one’s make them squirm
Why can’t liberty...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsy turvy, fruit, funny,
Form: Limerick
Day To Day Cures
When your world is topsy-turvy
Opt out  -- if you must
But don't stop CHARITY
GIVE a few coins, slices of food,
To the beggars, real or fake...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsy turvy, africa, america, feelings, international,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zealots
Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race...

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Categories: topsy turvy, angst,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs