Contrarily Poems

Premium MemberMemento on the Moon

...The Moomagatta is very heavy.
And being the strongest astronaut around,
I knew, for Earth's sake, I had to be ready.
Not a month later on the powdery surface I touched down.
The Moomagatta and me...
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Categories: contrarily, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTo Good Health

...Jack Sprat and wife Mary, lived in a glory of lemony, chiffon days;
Like maroon birds keep on singing, until the sunset, orange phase.

They were comfy and happy, like a picnic in lavish, ...
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Categories: contrarily, color, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet


As a mortal man of threescore and five years

...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories: contrarily, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFreedom

...Doubt. Fear. Par for a world
of quakes and shakes -- 
droughts and flakes
upon the mountains
contrarily bring
fountains to the 
desert bakes – separation
has bound us together -- 
the world a...
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Categories: contrarily, earth, environment, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Up a Bit From Yesterday

...Through googly eye's
and a warm-browed telling
I see that summer is fast coming
the panting wind proclaims it.

As contrarily as a dude can get
I wish for a fresher breeze
a knee twinging chil...
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Categories: contrarily, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Glory To Thermodynamics In General

...Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficie...
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Categories: contrarily, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStumped

...It may seem contrarily
   yet happens not so rarely

 The lightning bolt of recognition
   precedes actual cognition...
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Categories: contrarily, perspective, senses, sometimes,
Form: Couplet

Chasing the Unworthy

...Finding the existence of something which never existed,
Heart went on and on despite the mind staunchly resisted,
'Kind-heartedness' was the one considered to be vulnerable,
'Presence of mind' bec...
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Categories: contrarily, how i feel, love
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberDisaster In 16 Words

...Recalling December
a faculty member
primarily contrarily
dismissed Christmas.
For goodness sake,
give me a break!

written December 6, 2021...
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Categories: contrarily, christmas,
Form: Light Verse

The Trouble With Poets

...If by accident, they occasionally
come near to any kind of truth
they tend to breakout in hives,
or shake uncontrollably.

We shouldn’t expect them to be truthful,
it’s asking too much.
Would ...
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Categories: contrarily, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNever Truly Felt

...Feelings I have longed wanted to purge,
Contrarily, there is no urge…...
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Categories: contrarily, depression,
Form: Crystalline

Love's Cry

...There's a moment everyday where we choose to listen to love or ignore its cry.
Though ignoring it gets easier when we don't even try.
We get so caught up in our own lives that we no longer endear.
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Categories: contrarily, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Way

...Wondering, pondering, contemplating
The moments when I’ve felt different
Because of my ideas, my dreams, my feelings
The way I think and the way I believe
Struggling to be who I am inside my hear...
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Categories: contrarily, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Cold Season

...Window curtains in my room sway with the silent winds;
The cold smog crawls on the frozen garden covered with the mists.
I see everything slowly fades but the splendor around never chagrins.

Wou...
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Categories: contrarily, nature,
Form: Terza Rima

Glory To Thermodynamics

...and spoils of Western Civilization.

Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and...
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Categories: contrarily, adventure, earth, green, heaven,
Form: Free verse

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