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Best Contrast Poems

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


Premium Member Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
   let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
     romance a mingle,...

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Categories: contrast, appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Autumn's Season
Autumn brushes her hair slowly
Letting the glorious colors
flow gently to the earth below.
Showing off vibrant colors 
 in contrast to summer's green dress.
 Out doing...

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Categories: contrast, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: contrast, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: contrast, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: contrast, community, friend,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: contrast, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Views of You
Now, when the day is cool and new

While fragile light is still allowed

My paper captures views of you

Your eyes, the shape of shifting clouds

While fragile...

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Categories: contrast, future, hope, perspective,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Silent Serenade
Sometimes..

Life can be a silent serenade,
                   ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrast, angst, sad, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: contrast, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Now I Lay Me
Now I lay me down to sleep
In my home that's really sweet
Had three large meals and a snack
There wasn't a hint of any lack
Comfortable shoes...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrast, 7th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Raven's Sign
Fog settles on the tombstones. In the dark, an eerie blue,
the graveyard is a misty ocean Raven passes through.

She stops. The solitary site is grim,...

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Categories: contrast, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Inside This Little Room
It's to the corner kids must sometimes go,
or to their room they're sent and kept alone.
Their freedom gone, they stare at walls and groan.
When time...

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Categories: contrast, on writing and words
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Landscape - Beach Scene
How I love the sky, the sea and land.
Today I paint myself into a scene
of visual delight; though I'm on sand,
I dip my brush first...

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Categories: contrast, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On Avenue of Aimless End
In pre-ghost era of my sowing days,
and long before my crumbling had begun,
my feeble goals sparked insufficient blaze;
the avenue I chose was not hard-won.

I packed...

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Categories: contrast, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Christmas
The bells are calling as the snowflakes fall
Illuminations twinkle with delight
A goodwill message sent to one and all
The joys of Christmas fill this festive night.

Excited...

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Categories: contrast, christmas,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs