Incongruous Poems

Premium MemberOld School

...They're smiling leniently don’t be silly 
You can’t be apolitical these days
I’m smiling back I don’t trust them initially,
It doesn’t fall under a criminal offence
I’m fascinated by the incongru...
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Categories: incongruous, color, endurance, mystery, political,
Form: Rhyme

Love that saved stork

...“It’s a very beautiful bird. It can never be ugly! 
It’s the most beautiful bird in the world!”
- Quote by Purnima Devi Barman, 
Wildlife biologist who saved 
Greater Adjutant stork species
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Categories: incongruous, bird,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPurple - An Analogy for Deception

...the colour of the money stained my fingers 
they’re no mere vignettes 
but rather a cryptic cipher on a worn codex 
the coin of acceptance amongst gilded sybarites 
as the shades of the tenor of ...
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Categories: incongruous, analogy,
Form: Suzette Prime

Premium MemberThe Buddha Meets Christmas

...Down the fervent aeons Buddha’s sagesse,
casts its august shroud on benign witness,
shades, shadows, subtle symbol shift,
encompass cosmopolitan and temporal,
incongruous to flaccid predilection ...
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Categories: incongruous, august, celebration, character, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

...Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immed...
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Categories: incongruous, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberMONTAGISTA heartfield grosz

...manipulative
  media
    montage
angular
  distorted
&provocative
stark
overlaid
unusual
   arrangements
of
the incongruous
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Categories: incongruous, art,
Form: Didactic

TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN

...TO KNOW THE WHYS OF A COW 
IS TO KNOW WHY GOD CREATED MAN

A cow looks at the full moon standing on a sloping hillside
it looks straight at the moon as if it were waiting for an answer 
the beas...
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Categories: incongruous, courage, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberParadoxical Perfection

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Written: November 19, 2023
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Beyond the ethereal hues, reigns peace,
Incongruous with intrinsic ease.
Noshing desire tugs a...
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Categories: incongruous, analogy, appreciation, happiness, sky,
Form: Rhyme

The Complex Melody of a Captivating Soul

...Pretty cunning how she captivates hearts of many,
Eyes of many, attention of many but acts like a maniac,
One glance of her makes many sleepless, not that she is a queen but a goddess,
Gives out a...
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Categories: incongruous, beauty, courage, life,
Form: Burlesque

Housekeeping Not a Strong Suit With the Missus

...Housekeeping not a strong suit with the missus

(***warning ungapatchka language ahead***)
regarding following lines courtesy the missus,
who adventitiously, inadvertently, unknowingly
allowed, ...
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Categories: incongruous, anger, anxiety, betrayal, divorce,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJurassic Prayer

...Jurassic Prayer

By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imit...
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Categories: incongruous, child, god, prayer, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Waste of Space

...I balance my illicitly obtained bottle of absinthe from a man who knows a man, for an exorbitant amount of Euros, on the worn wooden windowsill of my topmost room at the rundown pension overlooking t...
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Categories: incongruous, culture, introspection, literature, metaphor,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberWrath of Zeus

...The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
Th...
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Categories: incongruous, beauty,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWolpertingers Roam

...Spring peaches ripen in the moon's shadow.
On the other side, wounded lambs moan
I grasp a whiff of strawberries
      inimical twilight
         cynical quadrant
              whims...
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Categories: incongruous, analogy, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIncongruous

...Drawn into a war that was not our choice,
we’re compelled to play the cards as they fall,
for although we wish all speak in one voice,
if swords need to be drawn as of fate's call,
aligned with r...
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Categories: incongruous, betrayal, war,
Form: Dizain

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