IRONY
Darkness
is luminous:
It
bends as light.
Day
is over:
It
rises with night.
A
clock is a statue;
A
desert, a lake.
Sorrow
is joy;
A
festival, a wake.
The
moon is the sun;
The
universe, a box;
Truth,
appearance;
Reality,
paradox.
Originally
posted on All Poetry (June 20, 2014) at http://allpoetry.com/poem/11539048-Irony-by-Gonzalinho
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| Ceci n'est pas une pipe |
One of the masters of visual irony is Rene Magritte. “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”—“This is not a pipe”—alludes to his famous painting, The Treachery of Images (1929).
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The bows of the mighty are broken, while the tottering gird on strength.
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The barren wife bears seven sons, while the mother of many languishes.—1 Samuel 2:4-5
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This poem was posted at PoemVillage, April 26-May 12, 2019, Downtown Saranac Lake, New York, by the Adirondack Center for Writing.
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Also published in Poetica Review, Issue 9 (Spring 2021)
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