Short Turvy Poems

my world
topsy turvy

i prefer
her on top

and me being
turvy...

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Sandro Bottecelli
pupil of Flippo Lippi
With style so topsy-turvy
in art full of allegory...

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If I get 451513123541 naked
I will surely be satiated
For I relish her all night
Making her topsy turvy in no light...

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Soulmates MIA
life waylaid by confusion
we search a world of
topsy-turvy Escher halls
climbing flights of endless stairs...

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"The grass is blue and the sky is green;
There's something wrong," he said.
"There's nothing wrong," his friend replied.
"You're standing on your head!"...

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Topsy Turvy Tomato
Finally yielded some fruit
I get exercise to boot
For I have to get on my knees
And sometimes lie down to beg please
Release the tomato to me...

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Some days the pen weighs a ton, or two
   On others it's light as a feather
Our lives are topsy-turvy, ever-changing
            Fascinations in adventure
   ~Just like poetry weather...

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The Blue Jays home opener is April 8th
Weatherman's predicts snow, hate... hate... hate
Not civilized for sure
Outlook's damn poor
The world's topsy turvy, sure am irate...

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Whimsical & topsy-turvy
A partnership of mirth & hilarity
William,dramatist with much to say
Arthur,leading composer of his day-
With light opera,they made their pay.

Tribute to Gilbert&Sullivan...

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Topsy turvy lives,
we lead.
We rare ones,
a special breed,
not all can be.
Sunrise is sleep, 
mid-day slumber.
The moon, our luminary.
We awaken 
with lengthening shadows.
Hallway haunters are we....

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a scarecrow smiles,
an infant sneers
a lion bleats, 
a lamb growls
thieves chase the police,
pea-hens strut feathers n’ dance
everything is topsy-turvy~
in sync with the times!...

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UPSIDE DOWN
inverted, topsy-turvy
unhinging, disorienting, confusing
puzzle, somersault; details, viscera
twisting, wearing, turning
front to back, socks
INSIDE OUT

written October 10, 2021...

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Topsy Turvy, Wavy Curly,
Twists, Turns and dips,
Bumpy Road,
No road code,
We've got to get a grip.

Hold on tight,
With all our might,
While on this rocky ride,
All unite to end this fight,
Or we will end up dead....

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Is it really, real?

Twist of unreality

Unlucky fatal thoughts

What I see out my window

Unwanted conscious scenes.




(January 23, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Clickety-clack train
and topsy-turvy brain.
Need sleeps tight and sound,
drowsy wheels are turning slowly around.
On the way to my home.
Ah! I'm missing my comfy room.
Though higgledy-piggledy bed
but all I am craving is my fluffy blanket....

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Whoopsie is a topsy turvy murvy lurvy swervy kind of gal
I stopped by her teacup house yesterday because I am her pal
What if it rains? I asked her, what do you do then, my friend?
It never rains in the kitchen she said and curtsied with a bend....

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ordering
hors d'oeuvres
simple finger
food for my
delight

taking in a bit
of wasabi
opening senses
to absent scents
revealed

reveling menu
of mussels
clams and
pearls
of oysters

tastes topsy
turvy turn 
my palate to
ask red wine
with fish?...

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Toddling
stumbling
fumbling
tumbling
are some nights,like toddling stumbling child,
tipsy turvy fumbling tumbling mind.






© kashinath karmakar(17th August 2011)
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Placement:7th;(August 2011)

Contest:Tyburn

Sponsor:Dr.Ram Mehta...

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Love barbs singed my heart, churning feelings of revulsion, flying topsy turvy in every nook and cranny in the heart that once whisked feelings in which I basked with hope, delight and anticipation. 

Fed up I wanna break 
Free of the shell I now elect
To wrap, cast in my past....

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Topsy-Turvy Love

Love turns the world upside down
slows the axial rotation
draws out passion’s sunset
compresses the hours together
shrinks the horizon to one face
cresting pillowed mountains.



5/2/2016

submitted to – Love Turns The World Around – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Nayda Ivette Negron...

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Love came 
in scented tingles, 
waking up
the tongues

of lust. The Lips 
in a topsy-turvy 
pandemonium, 

sleepy souls giggling
in erotic jubilation. Ah, the night 
untangled, the morning dews 
bathe the earth’s skin, 

while our 
throbbing hearts rest 
in the sweat sodden bed, still longing......

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eyes etched eerily
in mystic mists
of taunted tracks
drooling death damped
felon feet fostering
hoisted spree heaving

salient satyr scrunching
locked laced lips
in hankering hymns

saucy smirk blushed
zeal cold-blood cupped
punctured pleck dumped

lusty limbs lurching
topsy-turvy twain tumbling.
      19:12:31:04:41...

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In today’s crazy,
topsy-turvy world,
you do
what you gotta do,
pick up jobs as you can,
but I must say
it is a bit awkward
to do your job
taking ‘grams
door-to-door
only to find
that you must
land a kiss
on your boss’s lips…


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an ‘e’ lipogram that will not be delivered to any contest doors… :-)...

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When your world is topsy-turvy
Opt out  -- if you must
But don't stop CHARITY
GIVE a few coins, slices of food,
To the beggars, real or fake 
And the universe heals THE HEART
By degrees. College degrees fail
All too often as does "religion,"
Just be human, a mensch, once
A day, at the very least, & "dance"
The blues away (reluctantly, secretly)...

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To children, something upside down
Is silly, a mistake.
To grown-ups it's more ominous 
(Unless we mean a cake).

For we expect things to appear
The way they ought to be,
So right side up provides us with
A certain symmetry.

When things go topsy-turvy
And the world seems upside down,
Then every smile will do the same 
And turn into a frown....

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