Reversal Poems - Poems about Reversal

ROLE REVERSAL A most enterprising canary Always found the cat very scary So to turn a new page Shut the cat in the cage It’s the cat’s turn now to be wary ...

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Is life itself merely a matter of perspective? Does cogitation dwarf the poet's reflexive? If only my words could spread across the paper. Build a punter world faded from a barren taper. Has tied together details with his utterance. This ringed world is bathed in such radiance. There, as it blazed, the finest fury was sown. The glories of lofty notions must...

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Maybe a role reversal would be in order And us guys could take it or leave it Whatta mind-blowing experience that would be The ladies simply couldn't conceive it Exciting? You ain't just whistling Dixie There's a stirring deep down in my loins Sexual in nature maybe my jockeys are too tight Sometimes I let out a few oinks Sure would be great...

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A boy can dance Boy can he dance Can dance and sing Dance free of string Effortless float Free like a note Gain loft, soar swift His feet adrift Inspiration Just elation Kissing his true love. Love by her spurned Mocked, badly burned! No other thing, Other act brings Predicament Quite fiendish sent Reverses love Sensation of, To feel rejection Utter dejection Vengence directed Withering invective Xyloid, woody, Youthful feelings gone, Zeal for love dare again spawn? ---------- for the Abecadarian...

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Two bits of music Are said to be back to back - So one's in reverse! (April 2022)...

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He tried to change the unchangeable. Came to his senses… ...

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A Boy Can Dance Effortlessly, Free, Gain His Inspiration Just Kissing. Love Mocked! No Other Predicament Quite Reverses Sensation To Utter Vengence, Withering Xyloid, Youthful Zeal. ————— Xyloid: characteristics of wood, woody...

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Role reversal, rekindle love To be a child again Head-heart aligned, now hand in glove Cleansed soul thus free from stain Choosing heart’s expansion Bliss our meditation God orientation Glows fontanel Role reversal 30-January-2022 ...

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Kaleidoscopic optic, nervous eyes; Blinking disbelief while dropping Moisture-laden kisses. Each one misses. Sorrow such an individual thing. Truth be said, There are places that it cannot go. We cannot go. No one can go. Until they go. That is when all barriers collapse. Mighty sinewed synapses Coagulate no more. All are sprung as spring With no more traps. All are papered to the wall. All...

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I have unearthed perhaps the first reversal poem from the words of Jesus. Truly I tell you in the age to come To receive eternal life The first shall be The last For my sake and For the sake of the good news Now read from the bottom up Mark 10.29-31...

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The body has a different relationship with space now. Disrespectful of distance before, it now moves with a new sobriety, motion slowed by a deliberation barely perceptible, as if, with each step, asking for admission into the space in front, a little readier to recoil from air fraught with unwelcome possibility imagined by creeping frailty, erstwhile swagger replaced...

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This is reverse poetry. A category that really should be in the Poetry Soup list of forms as it is increasingly used to significant effect. Here is a link to a challenging and inspirational example: https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/ And my brief contribution to the genre. To make it through the winter I'll feel safe from Covid-19 By keeping a safe distance Responding...

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His hands clasped tightly, one in mine, one in mother's. Days of baby steps made us nod in encouragement -- we let go. Daddy took his first balanced steps post crash. A memory of joy, watching him walk again. dad's first leap of hope puddles of joy held my breath-- gleaming roles reversed June 30, 2020 A MEMORY Poetry...

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C-ome into reversal of fortunes, H-igh time to turn your world around; E-arly January thirty-first, L-ove, faith, and hope are found. A-fter years of total darkness, L-ight has finally shown up; Q-uitting was not in your mind, U-nceasing search did not stop. I-n spite of all setbacks, Z-eal has done more actions; A-rdent trust has let you R-each the reversal of fortunes....

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Maybe a role reversal would be in order And us guys could take it or leave it Whatta mind-blowing experience that would be The ladies simply couldn't conceive it Exciting? You ain't just whistling Dixie There's a stirring deep down in my loins Quite sexual in nature or my jockeys are too tight Sometimes I let out a few oinks Sure would be...

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