Oxymorons

• Seriously funny
• Only choice
• Found missing
• Almost exactly
• Original copy
• Jumbo shrimp
• Pretty ugly
• Same difference
• Definite maybe
• Act naturally
• Deafening silence
• Minor crisis
• Larger half
• Liquid gas
• Working holiday
• Open secret
• Exact estimate
• Hell’s Angels
• Clearly confused
• Genuine imitation

Poets think it’s sublime when the words they write rhyme,

But to Teachers and Students, they’re trouble.

Is it right to write white or is it rite to right wight,

And when do those consonants double?

Is it  ‘i’  before ‘e’ except after ‘c’,

Or is it ‘e’ before ‘i’  as in weird and seize,

But then what do you say 

When they sound like ‘A’

As in neighbor and weight and sleigh?

We’re told ‘oo’ sounds like ‘u’ as in shoot and cartoon,

But then blood, door and floor sing a different tune.

It’s driving me mad, all those sayings and rules

To help us make sense (cents?) of it all.