Contradiction Poems - Poems about Contradiction

I didn’t ask you to come. You came anyway-- like sympathy could scrub the blood off my breath. Don’t you see? My grief is mine. You’re holding tissues like they matter. You’re speaking like you understand. You don’t. Not the burn. Not the echo. Let me fall. Let me break and crawl through it-- I need the splinters to feel like proof that I was touched at all. And yet, if you leave now I...

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The lack of common sense makes nonsense easy, things that should make sense, slip through, unchallenged. Yet common sense itself makes the absurd unbearable, forcing logic upon the illogical, struggling to grasp the uncommon. To live without it is to drift through chaos, unbothered by contradiction. To live with it is to wrestle with reason, forever questioning the senseless. ...

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Yeah, I don't like you! Is that why I help you with your assignments? Yeah, I don't like you! Is that why I get mad over you for silly reasons? Yeah, I don't like you! Is that why I want to bully you and enjoy it? Yeah, I don't like you! Is that why I...

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...I think the counterbalance is our craving for community, and not the local government, no, the things we enter freely. I’m talking about your neighbors, your churches and your civic clubs, things we build in the private space, where you hang out with all your buds. The joint virtues you stand behind, those that you submit to by choice, no human works in solitude, these things...

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I see a contradiction that grows clearer with each passing day, once I think we all one know, once saw as just part of the game, a dynamic state of tension that we should hope is not resolved, for that be would be unfortunate for all the parties now involved. It begins looking at the state, that should safeguard our liberties, and, when it steps...

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A question eats my soul Everything is relative Or is everything of absolutes? Because everything is together If happiness or sadness are transitory. In the passing of the hot time of love, it should be heal? If only and only alone Relativity is absolute so me Why should there be sadness? Because everything, even sadness is relative! I know that my love for you...

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Vile instrument of death and shame on which Christ hung taking our blame. His death purchased eternal life for those ensnared by sin and strife. Like Moses’ serpent on a pole those doomed to die from death He stole. That which was once a source of shame is now acclaimed in Jesus’ name. Hanging between two taunting thieves His words caused two men...

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There’s a kitty I have that is white. When I pet him, he purrs with delight. Then directly he goes with his mouth to my nose and with tiny sharp teeth gives a bite! Nov 5, 2022 For Tania Kitchin's A Funny Limerick - Make Me Laugh Poetry Contest...

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U K minus queen, where All's not as it seems; the crowds Will Gather, there will be much piety and blather, shoulders To be rubbed, as people dive into the hub-bub at the Shop restaurant golf club or pub, has something been Forgotten? that prior was reported ; of ad-nausem top To bottom, covid...

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Leave I needed to leave but I didn't know how I felt like a kid afraid of a mouse I had not yet built another house but I needed to leave so I cried my way out... I needed to leave not easy decision but I was so keen to do that transition I preferred the streets over the traditions of giving up my dreams for a life of contradictions. I needed...

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'Experts' assured us the Cold War was over that Russia’s a bit player now My hat’s off to them: We’ve got a Hot War brewing ~ but Russia’s on offense, somehow...

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Contradiction (naga uta poem) in this rural place forest once ever so deep- one needs to destroy acres of trees to create a stronger living signal… the moon and stars scrutinize © Harry J Horsman 2021...

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Beware of the erect preacher For he is hell bent to get inside you!...

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By definition, Mr. Contradiction asserts the contrary or deny the truth of something. He admittedly is hypocritical and controversial, and most often, he refuses to surrender. He fights until only death or doom defeats him. It is his nature to behave this way. Mr. Contradiction. Do you not hear him, as do I, shouting from...

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Their reserved table was already in use and their solid chair backs were so loose This refined gentleman diner felt quite rough as his tenderloin steak was extremely tough His wife’s jumbo shrimp portion’s so small maybe the huge serving plate’s their downfall Her hot chocolate fudge sundae was served cold and though fresh, there were flecks of green mold She’s complimentary about...

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