Old 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
Purple - 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
The 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
MONTAGISTA 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
Paradoxical 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
Jurassic 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
A 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
Wrath 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
Wolpertingers 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
Incongruous
...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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