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Best Contrasted Poems

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


Premium Member A Dream Weaved
Your tapestry 
weaved with strands of light
Contrasted with threads of black
A marvelous mosaic 
of a wondrous soul

I drape you over me
Feel your warmth
am nurtured
I hear...

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Categories: contrasted, beautiful, celebration, for her,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member ugly gray rock -
an ugly gray rock, so I kicked it along
amused by my memories, humming a song
it was jagged and rough - I gave it no mind
and...

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Categories: contrasted, beauty, humanity, metaphor, nature,
Form: Couplet
Colors of Love
My heart was like a blank canvas, longing to be painted with love.
Full of curiosity, searching for the true colors of love.
Till you came in...

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Categories: contrasted, love,
Form: Rondeau
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 35
His was,
A kiss of promise
A kiss of challenge
A kiss of power
And a kiss of doom
Where our lips had met
He was a threat, a strident peril
And...

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Categories: contrasted, dark, deep, fear, fire,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Share
White blossoms of the Mountain Laurel
Contrasted to the waxy green leaves
Nestled under trees along the creek
Showing some of the beauty of spring


Snuggled on a blanket...

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Categories: contrasted, animals, fantasy, friendship, imagination,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member A Feather In the Forest
Leaving my son's house, a rain-burst had just passed.

At the edge of the wood, contrasted against dark clouds,
A single tree stood glowing.

Wet in the sun’s...

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Categories: contrasted, analogy, dance, joy, rain,
Form: Personification
Random Acts of Kindness
A  Random Act Of Kindness

A little old nun all dressed in black
A habit on her head and chest
Contrasted in white with her silver cane
Doubtful...

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Categories: contrasted, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resonance
Earth health-love resonance
is bird song
contrasted to dissonance
of non-ecologos
decaying cars
and non-theomythic truck technologies
of terror
and mismanaged motorcycles
flowing incessantly by.

Optimal resonance lives inside an eco-forested bird sanctuary
before and...

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Categories: contrasted, community, happiness, health, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
As I Sit In Quiet Contemplation
Do you recall the fields of flowers, that swayed and shifted their stance
as the wind swirled around them?
Do you recall the leaves that floated in...

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© Tobey Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrasted, desire, dream, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amazing Agape
Amazing Agape
The immaculate Father Almighty 
Soul redeemer, merciful and mighty
Wear His yoke upon you of humble heart
How to live, to love it's a magic art.

Do...

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Categories: contrasted, allegory, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme
Storm
The day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds 
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on...

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© Jamie Pan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrasted, courage, fear, metaphor, natural
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Yesterday Happened So Fast
Yesterday Happened So Fast
                     ...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrasted, death, dedication, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Harvest
Golden leaves transcend autumns harvest, contrasted by
Blazoned reds burnt offerings of summers final sacrifice to
The changing of the seasons, oh what a palette of magnificence,
Is...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contrasted, adventure, autumn, beauty, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red and Blue Estrangered Families
Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a...

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Categories: contrasted, earth, faith, family, health,
Form: Political Verse
Thomas Kinkaid
quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)

i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
   and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
 ...

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Categories: contrasted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things