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Best Comparative Poems

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Splendour Comparative
Twins, 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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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparative, allegory, art, love, passion,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Early Morn On the Old Farm
Early 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
Premium Member Rain Streaks Down Window Pane
rain 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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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparative, rain, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparative, friendship, world,
Form: Elegy
Think About It
I 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?



Pulp
Pretty 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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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparative, allegory, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Is Necessary
Missing 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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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparative, allegory, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Powerful Polite Imaginations
Imagine 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
Premium Member I Wish, Oh I Wish
A 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
Premium Member Empathy As Green Democracy
I 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
Premium Member If Time Is Money
Does 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
Premium Member Suicidal Notes
Do 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Practicing Positive Psychology
Today 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things