Free Verse
Having Fun With Oxymorons
Have you ever met this riddle
As you’ve walked throughout your life?
A pessimistic optimist,
A materialistic mystic,
Prejudicial towards tolerance,
And realistic dreamer…
A sedentary sportsman,
Ecological consumer
Not to speak of fighter for peace and
Silent conversationist!
A hunter and animalist…
A pragmatic idealist not to speak of
A male feminist.
An international nationalist
A capitalistic socialist
And just to top it off…
An organized anarchist.
My friend the oxymoron,
Walks the world among us,
And it might well surprise you to find
He’s hidden everywhere even in your soul.
Now tell me my dear friends
what do you think now of my
Rhyme?
Have you any more examples?
Please share them here with me,
If you can spare the time,
At that point we will read them and decide
Maybe agreeing to disagree!
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
Fantastic. I would have stopped after ‘he’s hidden everywhere,’ seeing as you already posed an extensive question at the beginning(have you ever met this riddle?). Love it.
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Ah…and I was tempted to do so…but it seemed only half dressed…somehow, I don’t know something like an English lesson…but just for fun I thought I’d turn it into a serious game! 😉
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Reblogged this on Legends of Windemere and commented:
This is a very fun poem. Give yourself a smile for the day.
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Thanks Charles! You gave a smile to me 🙂 see!
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I´m an introvert extrovert. 😉
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And to be honest…I’m a pessimistic optimist…
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Might I play on introvert extrovert….could be a shy exhibitionist….though I too am shy, but talk and laugh a lot to cover up!
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I have an optimist and and a pessimist in me, too. They converse a lot.
There are other pairs as well. Finding my personal golden middle path (oh, how boooooring that sounded when younger) is a central (:D) theme in my life.
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🙂 know about the Booooring part…but the middle road is a good road…it’s nice to be centered and accept both our sides…we are all oxymorons in the end if we’d just think about it a second…yin and yang live together inside every human being.
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This is hands down my favourite poem of the year. Maybe ever. Yes, I think ever.
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Wow!! Thanks a lot!
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Reblogged this on LIFE AND LOVE and commented:
Excellent post! 🙂
Wordpress is stoooopid, it ate my comment on Bastet’s blog post. 😦
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WordPress eats comments and posts too 😉 Thanks for the reblog and comment!
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Oh, this is so wonderful! I read through this, laughed, but as I did I realized that I have indeed met some of these Oxymorons of yours…
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🙂 Aren’t they everywhere! This was a lot of fun to write, for some of the examples all I had to do was think about myself! Glad you liked it!
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