Versus Poems

Good versus Evil

Shock waves ripped through China
on July 20 1999
Good versus evil
in a whirlwind of vicious crime

Millions of innocent people
faced life and death then 
By the jealous head of China
the dictator Jiang Zemin

He ordered all means be used
to eradicate Falun Gong
His intention to eliminate
in three months was strong

More than 26 long years
countless lives destroyed
Now transnational repression
the persecution

Human Speech versus Business Prison

Begin at treason acts of non allegiance 
Human Speech 
Business license is created to take from human voluntarily
Or otherwise 
Advertising is not free speech
Use of surplus against legislation 
Fraudulent bypass of poverty laws
Document theft from slaves
Slavery Acts

Calls from the job you needed
Connecting without the shove
Turning down the press
Finishing the letters in the heart shaped box
Quiting

AI versus HI -2

And you suffer confirmation bias,
Seek only what supports what you decide,
Objective as I’m, suffer no such ass,
AI posed, I’ve no monkey mind beside,
Nor my emotions blur reality,
Nor ever short change the reign of reason.
But I’ve this gift: Devil’s Advocacy,
Human intelligence is rare, my son,
To err is human and to learn divine!  
And there’s one

AI versus HI -1

In dream last night when I talked to AI,
Our dialogue went on back and forth like this:
I said, look, we see what we like well nigh,
Hope, you’re not held with such human disease. 
We can read misspelt words as fair and right,
I hope, you’ve acquired this ability--
To ignore what might fail to conform quite,
We can

fish caviar versus ant egg caviar

Caviar is fish eggs and I think so blobbish and ugly
Squishy and squirmy looking; they do not tempt me
Mexican caviar is supposedly ant eggs, definitely not free
How they capture ant eggs, I really do not fathom or see.

Fountain Pen Versus my Muse Trixie

The fountain pen ran off giggling and lost his pants
Leaving a string of letters, none of them seemed by chance
How dare he think he can write? Said my non-amused muse
angry enough to give him some really mean reviews

He’s just a pen, a one-trick pony!
Blue and plastic, common, bony!

The pen came back to hear my thoughts
I’ve

Poor versus Rich on Trial for Murder

Evidence was spotty, not much justification
Giant stretch of prosecutor’s imagination
Easily led jury wanted to crucify and convict
Defendant’s wife felt like he was being kicked

Though there was no solid proof or DNA test
Was this lawyer truly the defendant’s best?
Victim was not alive to testify, unfortunately
The accused got sentenced to life and twenty-three

If this sap had been

work versus play

Her apathetic attitude toward work
Caused many a boss a bit of irk
Fervent night lifer, listless all day
Many dead end jobs with little pay

At her desk she was listless and dull
Showed less energy than yesterday’s skull
Flash-mobbing and clubbing were her things
After midnight, her energy zings

good versus evil

good versus evil
two swords flailing in the night
fiery cosmic dance


AP: Honorable Mention 2025

human versus pre-human

Human versus pre-human
Are humans born with a soul? I don’t know but I think a newborn child has yet to acquire a soul   A newborn absorbs everything it sees, including colors and voices, the way it is lifted up given a bath hugged, and song too, absorbed into the new memory bank and

GRACE VERSUS GUILT

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”  2 Corinthians 9:8 of the King James Bible; "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" Romans 6:1 KJV 

God’s grace abounds

Sticklers versus HippyDippys

The Sticklers are rule-followers; they do seventeen weekly have-tos.
There is no room for flexibility, or deviation from their parents’ teachings.
Have to go to church, read the Bible, pray daily, on their knees.
Have to go to grandma’s every Sunday, bring a pot roast, wash the dishes.
Have to read the Bible with grandma, aloud, as she corrects

Santa versus The Grouch

'Twas the night before Christmas, and there sat the Grouch,
waiting for Santa and his present filled pouch.
I'm sure that all of you have heard of the Grinch,
but the Grouch is far worse, at least by one inch.

That vile and distasteful sixty-six year old man
had been writing poems which he pitched in a can.
To tell you the

Head versus heart

Head versus heart, which should we choose
The ego or the soul
Come, come now, follow your heart’s muse
Do what you will, feel whole

Conscience, the voice of God
Pleads, please give love a nod
Walk into heart unshod

Close, yet apart
Head versus heart

Try versus wife to win and see

Try versus wife to win and see,
Weigh her words nor loud din and see.

Unless game to sleep all night out,
Dare say, to truth you lean and see.

Find her fault and try to point out,
Dare keep up keen your chin and see. 

You might be a poet of weight,
Play to her ‘that old been’ and see.

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