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Best Contra Poems

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


How Does Your Contra Grow
Losing my keys can be unsettling.
Not nearly as much as finding a human skull.
Waking up naked in church is a
reoccurring dream.
Pleasant is the day when...

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Categories: contra, crazy,
Form: Free verse



Coffee Stain Contra
Stain on the coffee table.
Where did you come from?
Your brown halo. From overflowing
cup? Maybe clumsy stumble.
I don't remember seeing you
yesterday in this place. Since I
don't...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contra, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rain Contra
I got up it was way past noon
Thought I’d go for a walk.
Then, it started to rain
I’m talking heavy rain
The rain that soaks you rain.

I...

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Categories: contra, dog, funny, rain,
Form: Free verse
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...

Oddly enough even 
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping 
cheaply tricked out goo...

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Categories: contra, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Aha Argh Oh My Dog
Aha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?

Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact...

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Categories: contra, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative



El Amor a Primera Vista
El amor a primera vista
No se define con los ojos. 
Se define con la química inexplicable 
Que toma control instantáneo
Sobre dos personas sin conocerse.

Ya sea...

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Categories: contra, desire, destiny, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Love's Symphonic Passion
Love's Symphonic Passion
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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contra, love, music,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Inquisition Poetry 101
I stopped to stool siphon sip on a cool blue 
circumstance in the means between the in 
times loath listening to complacent
poetic prostitutional practice of...

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Categories: contra, allegory, angst, change, emotions,
Form: ABC
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (Sentanka)
He had do fight all odds
A man of unbreakable idealism
Alone with his ideas

A mysterious death at high sea
The truth will never be known
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Gegen alle Widerstände
Ein...

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Categories: contra, historydeath, autumn, body, death,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Sounds of the River Drums-Spanish Verse Part 2-
SONIDOS DE LOS TAMBORES DEL RÍO
COMO EL SONIDO DEL BEAT VA, TUM, TUM, TUM
A medida que el sonido del tambor late boom, boom y boom
Corriente...

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Categories: contra, analogy, appreciation, image, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sadness
Meu estômago faminto
murmurando contra mim,
murmúrios de tristeza
murmúrios de dor,
gritando murmúrios 
de sofrimento,
bocejando 
a tristeza 
de viver.
Meu corpo
descartável
morto de frio
tremendo 
de medo
da morgue
da 
vida....

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Categories: contra, sad,
Form: ABC
Video Game Memories
My dad brought home Mario around 1986.
We plugged it in right away and started busting bricks.
Tecmo Bowl and Baseball stars were next in line to...

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Categories: contra, growing up, dad, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heeling Mephistopheles
"Heeling Mephistopheles" 

murdering crows
flies in on the bow 
of a Stradivarius 

strange webs cleared
from the mind of 
Machiavellian insolence 

insisting life written 
by dancing fingers
pressing...

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Categories: contra, muse,
Form: Free verse
El Hombre
En los ojos y palabras de un hombre
he visto peligros y amenazas
Sus pareceres son un macabro
laberinto de intenciones
perversas y demoníacas
Gran misterio es la cueva
de su...

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Categories: contra, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Letter To Eden
My deplorable emotional collapse. 

Lucky for me, she happened to be in her many hour siestas!

My dear sister amelie came over (previously arranged to pick...

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Categories: contra, angel, beautiful, caregiving, child,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs