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Best Antithesis Poems

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Premium Member Rebel Girl
She doesn't believe in quiet love
wasn't born to bleed shyly,
couldn't care about the cost of conquest,

Too beautiful to be bitter, and too young to be...

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Categories: antithesis, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Lessons of Autumn
Lessons of Autumn

Summaries of schooling
   — lessons upon lessons guiding
Thoughts in class after class…as bells ring…
Volumes to consider about ways of interpreting…
As the...

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Categories: antithesis, autumn, change, color, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Square For Two
you ... are the paramour of right angles
the square of a square - complete, quite aware
how two must adore you
for all it sees is itself,...

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Categories: antithesis, appreciation, math,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Man of the Hour
The caricature of a gentleman, nameless, scorned,
The infamous savage of the famous street was wobbling:
Scruffy, shaggy, ruffed beared, tousled haired,
Disheveled,
there went the odious appearance, bumbling.
Soubriquet:...

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Categories: antithesis, eulogy, food, grief, hero,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This New Eden
"This New Eden"

This eden 
rolls gently over me
like Sunlight beams
the car lights shine 
luminosity along 
the road, the dark night
dims eventually and 
morning arrives
This eden...

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Categories: antithesis, muse,
Form: Narrative



Winner
At the beach in your bikini
blowing off those also-rans
you posture in your playful way
with Gucci sunshades and 
the latest Grisham novel.

At the gala you're exquisite...

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Categories: antithesis, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wrath of Zeus
The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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Categories: antithesis, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Cerebral Cortex of My Heart
I hold myself a prisoner 
A captive taciturn 
Unspeakable enticement still yearning
Since coming of age to discern

Yet never knowing 
Except in part 
The fullness to...

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Categories: antithesis, caregiving, conflict, deep, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Gravity
Gravity conquers desire
It devours and absorbs all
In the black colorless heaviness of the inevitable
It is the ballast of conflict, fear and hate
Its weight takes everything...

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Categories: antithesis, analogy, anxiety, fate, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Days Gone By
All the time I've wasted and chances I've refused to take 
Dreams deferred and the mornings I did wake 
Bring sadness upon me and tears...

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© Jacob Frey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antithesis, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Four
Rosalia - The Evil Witch of the Harz, Part Four

Rosalia’s Date with Destiny and the Power of Light and Goodness
It is said that the Almighty...

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Categories: antithesis, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Beautiful Sunny Day - Poetic Devices
1. Today, the weather feels like heaven's bliss!
        	
  2. The balmy breeze and beautiful soft blue
...

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Categories: antithesis, beautiful, day,
Form: Blank verse
Keep Right On Writing
1   Would you say that you’d like to write better?
2   Keep writing whether book or love letter.
3   Great writers...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antithesis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Revive
1.  Always aspiring to authentic answers
2.  Belief begins, only to end
3.  Calls the crow, 'never, to'
4.  Drifting like October leaves
5. ...

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Categories: antithesis, allusion, assonance, hope, onomatopoeia,
Form: ABC
No More
No more creativity deemed on 
the exercise of rotten faculty
Nor burning intelligence’s 
penalty
Nor repression sold as 
suppression
Nor dissemination of distortion 
I shall be content at...

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Categories: antithesis, hope, life, me, truth,
Form: Concrete

Book: Shattered Sighs