Short Absurdity Poems

medical progress
climate conscious practicing
destructive boots march...

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frail pedicels fail
when buds burst into blossoms ~
tempest-toss of times
...

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Once the door bell rings
Grandma would shout:"who is there?"-
Then opens anyway....

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He's perspicacious he thought
Logical science he taught
Absurdity filled his head
Though philosophies he read...

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If absurdity
is the only reality

Time is the new servant
—to what lies within

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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Why am I sad
Saddy-sad-sad
Saddy-sad, saddy-sad
Saddy-sad-sad.

Why is life bad
Maddy-sad-bad
Maddy-sad, maddy-sad
Maddy-sad-bad....

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While waiting for my brainy date
My ignorant friend cried "Oh great!
Now everybody's dead!"
He so absurdly said,
Upon seeing Hamlet did berate....

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You think you got the point
The big picture
Certainly that gives you confidence.

But you cannot understand
The limit is unplanned
Respect absurdity....

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She was called the Lyin’ Tamer.
Absurdity would enflame her.
	She could spot a line
	way back from foot nine.
She’d decline and who could blame her?...

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Chimps can't see color like you and me
Sadly, only in shades of grey do they see
But paintings by chimps
Buyers love the tints
As for me, I can't stop giggling at the absurdity...

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the absurdity
and memories
of endless
choices......
this
muddy angst
heaves
beneath
this nothingness
and
washes thru
my mind
like
some monstrous
freedom
clinging
to
the claws
of time...

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Words are eating commas,
Phrases are eating the page
Pages are eating  the parallel space
The end of Quantum Mechanic
Is reaching its absurdity
its maximum entropy
It is cold
I have to burn my journal....

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OBITUARY
I am writing my own obituary
To bury my soul into my own cemetery
Don't you feel the situation scary
Let's burn our hearts to cherish the absurdity
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando April 27, 2016...

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You slapped my face; yet,
I'm still awaiting the sting,
bruised on the good side 
I'll never show. 

I choose to stand in bad lighting,
for this one act,
absurdity play.
If I wore makeup,
I'd swear it'd run....

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Laurel and Hardy
absurdity of moments
late Summer pratfalls
a tree catapults through roof
then there’s the repairs done thrice

8/21/2018
Laurel & Hardy — American cinema slapstick-comedy duo (1920’s to 1940’s)...

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VISCOSITY
The water inundates my soul of viscosity
They are promoting their atrocity
Don't you feel the bad omen of pseudo-reality
Let's talk about the absurdity
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando September 13, 2016...

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UNTITLED 11112016
I go from the other side of absurdity
To realize the velocity of reality
Don't you want to encounter the conspiracy
The cosmos is spinning in conformity
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando November 11, 2016...

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we are actors

arguing in 
plotless movies

performing within
disconnected realities

muddling through
absurd battles

hoping for 
direction

striving to
make sense
of our roles

in a
cosmic
Cinema 
of the 
Absurd...

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The idea that our founding fathers intended anyone over 18 to possess enough firepower to destroy the entire continental army of 1776 is absurd, arrogate and dangerous.

#repealthe2ndamendment 


*Arrogate: to take or claim an illegal right....

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I 
it was midnight in a perfect world
as a child my mind swirled
with ideas as domestic troubles stirred  
from an early age, innocence unfurled 
how can a man learn to live happy in this world
as to which we were so randomly hurled?...

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Absurdity undisputedly does ambush our quest for jollity
But so,too,do glamour and the euphoria that attend our world
Clashes with a world that spurns to surrender meaning
Dating the perverse option may curtail,yet
Every cloud has a silver lining....

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Will we soon do away with all our currency
The way things are going it's almost a certainty
Debit cards have taken over
What happens playing poker
Do they throw in their debit cards, the heights of absurdity


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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CRY
When I try to listen to the silence, I hear your cry
Then I paint the hope of universe and hear the voice of the sky
Life is absurdity and nothing you can fry
Let's run the kite and we will love to fly
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando July 26, 2016...

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Absurdity undisputedly does ambush our quest for jollity
But so,too,do glamour and the euphoria that attend our world
Clashes with a world that spurns to surrender meaning
Dating the perverse option may curtail unfolding,yet
Every cloud has a silver lining....

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what is one to think
what is left to say 
when one is awestruck by the 
absurd absurdity of the absurd



Submitted on June 5, 2023 for ENTER THE W T F POEtRY CONTEST sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS

AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Originally posted on April 8, 2023...

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