Oppositional Poems - Poems about Oppositional

Meet the Man

...A covert narcissist dressed in a hand-me-down victim cloak,
Master of the tear-tantrum tactic —
He sniffles, sobs, and simpers until your defenses drop,
Then slides a betrayal in your back so smoo...

IRONIC EXISTENCE

...ronic – isn’t it…?
The very essentials we need to survive
Are the same essentials that endanger and destroy us!
The very same people we love
Are the same loved ones we hurt or hurt us –
The very...

Unholy Ruminations

...The opposite of life
is death

The polar opposite of eternal health
is terminal disease,
with unease perhaps lying/truthing
in-between timelessness
and untimely demise

So too,
my opposite ...

THE HEARTLESS PLOT

...Interrogated, tortured
And killed (dissolved in acid)
Just the way
The  Government had willed and ordered.
An oppositional voice
Finally stilled.
On the home soil
His blood was spilled.
Expos...

My Renegade Sunday School Teacher

...Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving EarthMother
indigenous wisdo...

Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs

...Freedom with far    Freedom with         Order with less      Order with far
less emphasis on    less emphasis         emphasis on          less emphasis
Order -                  on Order -        ...

Not So Great Expectations

...My favored Muse
mysteriously asks
muted
kinda sexist
win/lose 
either/or 
complex bilateral questions.

Oppositional
defiant
nearly despairing quests
exploring why I have yet to find
Fait...

Sacred Vestments

...Rebuilding bipartisan explorations,
at least two-sided appositions,
like generously inclusive
and conservatively exclusive
worldviews of MotherEarth

Sacred polytheistic strains
and peak exper...

Truth's Seat

...She walked into a crowded room
Trying to find her seat
Finally, she saw her name
Occupied by a woman with hoofed feet

When she stated TRUTH
She was met with unmovable resistance
So she found ...

When We Are Healthy

...If we are not,
is this always the opposite of
when we are?

If we are negative,
is this sometimes appositionally
in creative tension with
when we are becoming more positive?

If we are a not...

Grave Feelings

...I rediscover organic errors
hidden in co-gravitating
love language.

Gravity is easily noticed
as Apple falling toward Earth;
less visibly co-scienced,
experientially remembered,
as co-gravit...

Omniscient Earthmother

...Back in my fading youth,
when teenage peers
monopolized my only monotheistic worldview
we trusted
to emerge with matriarchal Beauty health
and patriarchal Handsome wealth,

I learned to speak,...

An Odorous Attitude

...As time passes by, people pass through
In all walks of life and ways of behaving
Most are congenial, but I’ve noticed a few
Who, apparently, have an inane craving

For causing a ruck...

Not So Friendly Discussions

...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio b...

Mental Illnesses - Saint Dymphna

...Saint Dymphna, please help with mine and other people's mental disorders and challenges.

1. Generalilzed Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
3. Panic Disorder
4. Post ...

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