The long and the short of it....(Paradox poem)

This poem is so clever...can anybody figure it out? i understood the first 4 paragraghs but trying to understand the last 2 gets very confusing even after reading the explanation. But i love it anyway.

Why is it that long is shorter than short,
And short is longer than long?
Why is long not longer than short
And short not shorter than long?

Why is not shorter shorter than short,
As longer is longer than long?
And why is longer shorter than shorter
And shorter not shorter than long?

If shorter was short and short was shorter,
Then shorter'd be shorter than short.
But if long were longer and longer were long
Then longer'd be shorter than long.

I hereby suggest that shorter be long
And longer be shorter instead.
Then long would be longer
'Thus longer than short
And short could be just as it was.

But if longer is shorter, is shorter longer,
And shorter not long as I said?
And if long is now longer and shorter now long,
Is short still as short as it was?

Can longer be shorter, whilst shorter is long,
Or is shorter now longer not long?
And if long is now longer and shorter is long,
Is long not shorter as well?


Explanation in the website http://www.curiouser.co.uk/paradoxes/word.htm

back to school

hmm......school's started its still the same old boring routine shit. But i heard from many that year 2 is where you experience the wrath of OPTOMETRY. I have like 5 modules plus 1 gem module. My gem module for this semester is psychology and counselling, i have it tommorow.

And the weekend would be spent doing some reports. Yes i have reports to hand in already and itS like the fourth day of year two. The reports are nothing too difficult but still its crap.tommorow is gonna be a long day at school till 8-effing5!

I don't even know when i became this person who works so hard for academic success. I know others who work harder but maybe they were born this way or whatever but not me.I am a lazy bitch :0 yeah gotta admit that. I have to work harder than ever to get ahead and i asked myself issit just to be ranked above others? Partially true nope 1/4true, humans are humans we like to be on top but that really is not all for me i have a hidden agenda for wanting to do well. If i don't my worst fear might come true and even if i suceed doing well it does not mean i am off the hook.well.


and almost all my classmates are supahsmart people so i have to workkkkkk my ass off...


and i hope to write more poems even after school starts... :)


Back to some hardcore studying.yuck.

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Baby I'm bad, I'm the fear in your eyes
That hate in your heart has been branded with my name
Maylene and the sons of disaster- Darkest of kin <3<3<3

Sweet Slavery

A waft of you
Deadly seduction
Sweet slavery
My addiction


Though you taunt
Pull my strings
I succumb to you
For my thrills


Chasing a mirage
Ran to my end
Into your arms
Straight to hell


Voices cried
Out to me
Shaking me, back
To reality


Deep down inside
I knew my fate
Surrendered myself
To destiny

I sway my limbs
Dance to your tune
Heedless of danger
I follow your lead

Nashira.B

Vicious Cycle

A poem i wrote....

As memories unravel
Realizations are made
My mind marvels
At all I have missed

It has been said
It is never too late
To seize what’s left

And it’s still too early
To determine my end
I say to myself

As the sun sets
And flowers wither
I reveal my feathers
Set to soar

But all are gone
Oblivion
I bawl at life
Shriek in despair

Bereft of hope
Sunk in stupor
I avert my eyes
And loose hold

Out of the blue
As it arrives
I turn my back
Give it a miss

It’s a vicious cycle
I live to regret

-Nashira. B