Best Comparative Poems
Below are the all-time best Comparative poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of comparative poems written by PoetrySoup members
Splendour ComparativeTwins, entrapped in purity of essence,
The woman and the vista;
She, for all the world, is real,
The other cast interpretive.
Models of implicit quintessence,
The painting and the...
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Categories:
comparative, allegory, art, love, passion,
Form:
Blank verse
Early Morn On the Old FarmEarly Morn On The Old Farm
tomcat cat fast asleep
new house painted darkest of greens
old sun drenched, low-weeping willow
young black dog awakens
eager dawn, stretches its new...
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Categories:
comparative, art, cat, color, dog,
Form:
Verse
Rain Streaks Down Window Panerain streaks down window pane
sadness echoes in thunder's roar
teardrops falling from cloudy eyes
yet in some distant place
laughter colors sky with rainbow...
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Categories:
comparative, rain, sad,
Form:
Verse
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993, Part Three [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...
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Categories:
comparative, friendship, world,
Form:
Elegy
Think About ItI got that I love you yet cant stand to be around
Yet sometimes you make me want to leave you by the way you...
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Categories:
comparative, love, urban, me, heart,
Form:
I do not know?
PulpPretty soon, night will fall upon the city,
And lives of crime animate spasmodically
As Gene Pitney croons “A Town Without Pity”
And the clubs and the gin...
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Categories:
comparative, allegory, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumn Is NecessaryMissing the luxurious lush green of verdant spring.
When autumn chafes against the soul
Reluctant of letting go all that summer had to offer
We do not proffer...
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Categories:
comparative, allegory, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Powerful Polite ImaginationsImagine with me
that your local
political
economic community,
municipality,
bioregion
is a communication network
already at hand,
like a potentially benign kingdom
or mutually informed democracy,
Which is what some residents actively hope for
as...
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Categories:
comparative, earth, games, health, heart,
Form:
Political Verse
I Wish, Oh I WishA huge monstrous olive tree
not giving shade nor bearing fruits,
existing in pains and disappointments
together with the others, they live
is the exact expression of my grieve.
Too...
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Categories:
comparative, grief, sad,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Empathy As Green DemocracyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change...
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Categories:
comparative, education, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
If Time Is MoneyDoes your money derive from health-regenerative investments?
Well, what could that mean?
Do you make your money, honey,
with both light and dark co-arising memory
of midway love...
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Categories:
comparative, health, humanity, money, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Suicidal NotesDo you sometimes wonder about your self identity
seen through your lens for suicidal risk as opportunity?
It interests me that this lens
evolves as we age.
In later...
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Categories:
comparative, depression, destiny, grief, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Monsters Are Real
In hushed whispers, Mariners told stories,
Of a octopus like cephalopod creature;
With a tentacled beak...
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Categories:
comparative, animal, ocean, science,
Form:
Verse
Practicing Positive PsychologyToday we hear Positive Psychology is hot.
To not agree is to be both negative,
and a snot;
too cognitively dissonant
arrogant
and dino-snore-a-lot.
When your loved one tells you,
for the...
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Categories:
comparative, appreciation, integrity, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Portraits of Racial Politics“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate...
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Categories:
comparative, culture, earth, health, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry