Get Your Premium Membership

Best Contes Poems

Below are the all-time best Contes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of contes poems written by PoetrySoup members


So You Say Your Turning Twenty-One Years Old Rap-Lyric Contes
so you say
your turning
twenty-one years old
today

Hootie Hoo!
happy birthday

and you want
some advice
on the game
of life
so you don't
get played

okay! baby
you know
you just came
to the wrong
place?

so this is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, age, america, anti bullying,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Can I Crack Open a Walnut - For You
Like a lost firefly my mind strays 
Concealed like a ripe walnut
My heart is shelled by enclosure 

Waiting to be cracked open... 
To be served...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sweet Poetry
It fills my soul with such delight
to think up verses that inspire.
Words overflow, and I can’t stop,
for writing is my heart’s desire.

For those who thirst...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Good things and bad things
There are things, Gaëlle, that are pretty good
Say hello to her mom every day,
Say hello to the nice weather vane,
Listen to the trains in the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, appreciation, education, nice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Secret Rendevous
May 20th, 2014

Here I am after a long time away.  What can I say?
My only excuse is that  the demands of life simply...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, feelings,
Form: Personification



Premium Member - Haiku X 148 - the Peril of False Spring -
a single small bud

                     ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, confusion, snow, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mischief
I think I have a grem/in, lurking in my words 
I'd left a win/ow open and thought it was the birds
But then I heard a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, fairy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Pausing For a Breath-Contest
Pausing For A Breath

Nature works wonders,
The whiff of fragrant air,
The murmuring waves,
The thickets resting on the banks,
The flowers smiling in the cozy sunny rays,
Makes young...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, dance, environment, heart, insect,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Morning Breath
A rose-laden climber
bows to the morning sunlight.
I inhale the sweet fragrance
of damask delight and
Monday fades to sensory ecstasy.
The only way to begin a day.



Bite Size...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, appreciation, flower, morning, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn In the Park
Summer’s fled – on the ground
gold and red leaves are found.

In the park is a swing.
I’m a lark on the wing!

Up I go swinging high
in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, autumn,
Form: Verse
Never Felt This Pretty
(09/05/2012)

My birthday skin of 80 year old soul
It wrinkles here and there but I’m pretty
Who would’ve thought I used to be a fool
Had chased abstract...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, birthday, life, old,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Eap-Art
The artist creates art:

with the portrait passe
in the still life display
of the abstract soufle
in the objets trouve

Why not try one of these yourself in my...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, people
Form: List
Premium Member The Partition
a silken wall

beyond earthly realms

that separates us all

from the great mystery

no mortal can see

lest He should call



Written 9/24/13 by Andrea Dietrich
for nette onclaud's POEM OF...

Read more of this work...
Categories: contes, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Deep End
Granny has found a new trend
 With unseen waves to contend
 Ironing board skurfing
  And living room surfing
 Granny's gone off the deep end!

...

Read more of this work...
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contes, grandmother,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T Wignesan
Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo  Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan

Ils sont venus dans une petite ville
Une bande à moitié nue...

Read more of this work...
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contes, discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs