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To The Contrary Poems - Poems about To The Contrary

Premium Member Division
...God Proper is pure Light and Love – as long as man declares division, governs by lesser-ego, setting God apart from himself – then, God divided manifests presence as opposing elements o......

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Categories: to the contrary, education, growth, leadership, mystery,
Form: Prose
Middling Mild
...Ducks are up in the air, it is early - too much a middling. Nature lures, leads us on, the weather is wrong. Icy licked stems are surprised. Defrosting ants and marmots patch and mend, ......

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Categories: to the contrary, poetry,
Form: Free verse



My Wife
...I do not know who I am anymore My life is turned upside down and sideways I am angry I am hurt You think your are helping No ... You are only hurting! She is MY WIFE You are just a man Tha......

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Categories: to the contrary, anger, angst, cancer, character,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Rained
...It rained this morning... but I am not surprised myself arising a bit on the cloudy side -- by the afternoon my mind a blaze of clear activity -- the sun was high and bright -- to t......

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Categories: to the contrary, emotions, environment, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
...Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum With a title deeply rooted in subject matter iterated above invariably makes for hair raising poem, though I immed......

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Categories: to the contrary, 12th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse



Jack 95
... We’re all important in different and various ways But we shouldn’t ever get to caught up in our own significance or self-importance Whatever we believe, we are transient Whatever pigeon hole,......

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Categories: to the contrary, appreciation, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let My People Shine
...At sixteen People's Bible Church sent me from rural Michigan farm lands to Moody Bible Institute in siren-screaming Chicago Church fathers assumed, despite curious evidence to the contrary, ......

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Categories: to the contrary, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Eve
...The fall of man is attributed to Eve Who urged Adam to eat the forbidden fruit Such is the story ancient biblical scriptures weave Bringing about, as is said, on all of mankind disrepute ......

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Categories: to the contrary, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Sun's Toil
..."Rage, Rage against the dying of the light.", They say. To the contrary, all the Sun wants is the cessation of the light. It labors endlessly bringing light to the world so that we may flou......

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Categories: to the contrary, metaphor, sun,
Form: Free verse
The Return of Jack of All Trades
...We all knew Jack or someone like him, But we thought time had passed by him, We even sang the odd hymn, To mark the passing on of him. But alas he has returned to carry on where he left off Kn......

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Categories: to the contrary, allusion, analogy, angst, cancer,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Like a River
...LIKE A RIVER I’ve always been captivated by water…from the raindrops that parachute out of the clouds…to the ocean and the sea…but it’s the relationship between a river and time that has always fa......

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Categories: to the contrary, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 70
...(I wrote this poem when I turned 60…already somewhat old and gray and now that I’m am 70…it’s still appropriate today. I’ve lived through another decade with family and friends still sharing hope......

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Categories: to the contrary, age,
Form: Rhyme
No Matter What You Say
...no matter what you say to the contrary you will always keep on giving me renewed opportunities to reenter your world even if they are very sort lived the chance always exists even when ......

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Categories: to the contrary, true love,
Form: Free verse
The Situational Door
...the situational door of continued opportunity never truly closes it always seems to somehow remain open so be it even if it´s just a crack it stays open no matter what you might say to t......

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Categories: to the contrary, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are People
...We are the people, did you know, Better be ready, do feel it so. But, to keep you accurate to, you! We live in a human world; Where sin is thick, judgments clouded; In a world that's full of ......

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Categories: to the contrary, conflict, confusion, culture, future,
Form: Prose

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