Short Contraire Poems

Au contraire, I do chores while high,
Walking on air, as though in the sky....

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The optimist is not the one
whose glass is half full, au contraire!
He sees a glass that overflows,
yes, even when it's filled with air.


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H/T to Perspective by Milt Hankins...

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bones are bones, when left alone …

          our marrow - the love, unvarnished,

               but sun-to-sun, the blood's undone

     by time, and the truth, so tarnished.






Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, September 8, 2022...

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They come to me couplets,
  they come to me tight

They come to me rhyming,
  they come to me right

With lessened confusion,
   more light in the air

All youthful illusions,
   exposed,
     —‘au contraire’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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The clocks are moving on again.
Their time and place contraire.
To look upon their face again
will leave you worse for ware.

For time has changed to light the day.
To keep us brighter for it.
In truth a trick to dumb us down.
Our beds at wait to snore it....

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The clocks are moving on again.
Their time and place contraire.
To look upon their face again
will leave you worse for ware.

For time has changed to light the day
and keep us brighter for it.
In truth we took the time to chase
it's hands around it's orbit....

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soup overdone comments blow hot air ~ AI bubbles up everywhere 

bits and bytes chain reactions going spare ~ does admin really care 

esoteric brainwashing on blogs here and there ~ bullsh!t doctrinaire 

witnesses hold high ground au contraire mon frere ~ sisters in a lair

HMS...

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Pink petals fall out
Of these obvious cast skies
Intangible lies

Open your shut mind
Is it still your fault this time?
My confined remorse

Every light turned green
Contraire to what you believe
Give this one more try

Intangible lies
Out of obvious cast skies
Pink petal fall-out...

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The cat drug me in from who knows where. 

 I look like a ball of knotted hair. 

 You compliment, and then stop to stare 

 at who? What? Here? There? 

 Is see maidens around much more fair. 

 Your taste in beauty is au contraire. 

 You must like the unsightly, the rare. 

 Thank you for your sympathy and care....

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Superpositioned,
   truth here and truth there

Unmeasured duality,
  a mirror contraire

Its message lies distant,
  its message lies near

A Siamese phantom,
  whose front is both rear

The sublime contradiction,
  one plus one equals one

Their nature poetic
  —each truth zero sum

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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A potty shed? That’s what she said;
Connects the head to the flower bed.

Tomatoes are the best around,
And that soil is nice and brown.

Come on in and have a seat;
Squash is waiting for a treat.

Beans are sprouting in a rush;
There’s ten more since the last big flush. 

Sell it down at the market square.
I ain’t eating; au contraire!

Potting shed? What you said?
Now my ears are burning red....

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We're mailing Purim cards w Latino Food stamps, hence this poem will accompany:

Purim Amp Stamp!

Note the Stamps?

"Not chosen, Just Hurled"?,

Au contraire, They're Lamps,

Hot Tamales Unfurled,

Latino Spirit, Un-cramped,

Eruv Cha-Chas Whirled,

Courtesy, the House of Ramps,

Marano Purim: A Hidden World,

Andale! Andale! Ay Caramba Amps!

Freilichin Purim!!!

(Note: I'm handicapped, hence "The House of Ramps")...

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My thoughts are of you
Only of you
Sitting alone in your chair
Rocking
Gazing
Out the window you stare

But I know you still care
Sitting
Alone
Rocking again, still in your chair

A love
So true
A love
I dream we'll share

I swear
I'll show you beauty and grace
To lead you from this place

An experience
Together
An experience
We'll share

Together
A love
So deeply we'll care
A love
Unmatched
A love

Oh, Contraire...

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