Contradictions and Oxymorons
Contradictions and Oxymorons
Life is Full of Contradictions
Anyone that has lived a reasonable amount of years on this Earth, will know by now that life, and people, are full of contradictions. People are constantly making statements in public and then doing the exact opposite themselves in private, or vice versa.
Governments make a law preventing people from doing certain things but do “that very thing“ in secret deals with other countries or big business, hopefully without the public knowing.
These poems are my attempt to highlight some things in life that can fall under the label “contradictions or oxymorons.”
Contradictions
Fast food
Slow lanes
Dismal thoughts
Bright ideas
False truths
True lies
Happy meals
Angry birds
Half full
Fully empty
Passive agressive
Civil war
Dark days
Lightweights
Hard drives
Soft landings
Hearts are broken
Eyes are fixed.
Punchdrunk
Stone-cold sober
Everything’s a contradiction
But love endures.
A Walking Contradiction
I’m a walking contradiction
A talking drug addiction.
I’m no expert at good diction
But I like to write short fiction.
And always show conviction
Despite life’s constant friction.
Many creatures face extinction
As portrayed in movie depictions,
Of rented house evictions.
Oh, what a dereliction!
© John Hansen
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Now I find myself branching out and experimenting with short fiction, and thoroughly enjoying this, especially flash fiction.
I have been fortunate to have two poems made into songs and recorded. The first "On the Road to Kingdom Come" by Al Wordlaw, and the second, "If I Could Write a Love Poem" by award-winning Israeli/British singer Tally Koren.
My services increasingly in demand as a freelance writer and I have ghost-written the text for a number of children's books and educational tutorials.
It has taken me many years of searching and restlessness to realise that my life's passion is to write. It saddens me that I wasted so many years not devoting to that, but thinking positively, the experiences gained over those years are now wonderful material for my stories and poems.
I want to try to bring a new focus on poetry and try to make it appealing to a new generation of young people and those who thought they never liked or understood it before.
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Very interesting and creative piece, John. You bring up some phrases we rarely think of as oxymorons. The contradictions are always there in life, especially in politics. Great work – and your rhyme scheme in the second poem shows your masterful word skills. Well done.
Very interesting and creative piece, John. You bring up some phrases we rarely think of as oxymorons. The contradictions are always there in life, especially in politics. Great work – and your rhyme scheme in the second poem shows your masterful word skills. Well done.
Very interesting and creative piece, John. I enjoyed the poems. You bring up some phrases we rarely think of as oxymorons. The contradictions are always there in life, especially in politics. Great work – and your rhyme scheme in the second poem shows your masterful word skills. Well done.
Thank you Phyllis. I greatly appreciate all three of your comments…haha.
Just wanted to make sure you got it – haha. Actually, I don’t know how that happened.
Haha I got it…thanks for making sure though.
There is nothing Happy about those Happy Meals that is for sure! What fun! Thank you John. Jamie
Haha I certainly agree with that, Jamie. Thank you for reading.
Nice idea John. Fast food ha. Not at the McDonald’s I go to. Lol. You are 100% right Government is the ultimate contradiction do for thee but not for me. Excellent work John.
Thank you Paul. Good to see you are still around.
Thanks John, been absent for too long. I’m trying to get the drive to write back. Been stuck in a rut for too long
Great stuff John, made me chuckle and ponder…
Hi Kurt, chuckle and ponder away, My Friend.
Creative and inspiring, John. I like the optimism at the end of the first one.
Your poetry climbs higher and higher each time I read it. Brill!
Ann
Hello Ann. Thank you for such an encouraging comment. I like to think I am improving all the time. All the best to you.