PARADOXIST DISTICHS

by Florentin Smarandache

As a new type of poetry with fixed form:

The Paradoxist Distich is a two-line poem which contains an antithesis. The second line contradicts the first one, but both lines form together a unitary meaning defining the title.

Here there are 7 examples of <paradoxist distichs>:

P E R P E T U U M   M O B I L E

In a stable

Instability

G O S S I P

A big

Small talk

E N E M Y

Helps you to go

Wrong

S C A P E G O A T

Even if he didn't

He did

I N S U F F I C I E N C Y

Too much

It's still a little bit

B U L B

Turns nights

Into day

C A L I F O R N I A

A domestic

Wild West