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Best Juxtaposing Poems

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


Premium Member Birds of Paradise
Birds of paradise bloom and fall like a shooting star,
Red ones are juxtaposing lips when wrens are kissing;
Brilliantly gliding from huge foliage seen from afar.

They...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: juxtaposing, flower,
Form: Villanelle



Africa's Heartache
A poet touched my heart last night, he wrote of deprivation
Of child abuse, starvation's plight, the heartaches of a nation.
This juxtaposing universe so vividly portrayed
Has...

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Categories: juxtaposing, africa, heartbreak, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wakening
The world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt.
Oceans quake malleable, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger,
ravaging the deep, stirring the primal need depressing
populations’...

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Categories: juxtaposing, allegory, childhood, computer-internet, history,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member 'the Wakening World
The Wakening World

A new world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt.
Oceans quake, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger,
ravaging the deep, stirring the primal...

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Categories: juxtaposing, devotion, education, hope, mystery,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Love of Wisdom: Philosophy
Why isn't philosophy written most wisely
also poetic verse,
both-and analogical ecology?

While classic philosophic historians
continue this great debate
about which is most important,
truth or beauty?
this same political philosophy...

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Categories: juxtaposing, beauty, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Cooperative Digestion of Earth's Ecopolitical Climate
Perhaps you have read
as I have not
Beard's "Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States."

Yet, here is my prediction,
and I promise to actually read...

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Categories: juxtaposing, culture, happiness, health, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Moon
juxtaposing
melancholy and beauty

one eye observes the abyss

the other
the allure of the moon...

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Categories: juxtaposing, beauty, moon,
Form: Prose
Life of An Oversoul
The natural history of some has never been written,                ...

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Categories: juxtaposing, imagination, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023
I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023

Unseen enemy invades my body 
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz...

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Categories: juxtaposing, adventure, anger, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Avalanche
Avalanche 

Avalanched blizzards' cold dustings 
           envelope: 
 forests, gulleys, hillsides--
intentionally juxtaposing life...
 making necrose...

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Categories: juxtaposing, adventure, natural disasters, nature,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Abecedarian Monokus I
Actual aptitude and action almost always align aright.

Beautiful bliss, beastly belligerent behaviors: both burn bright.

Caringly convinced, cantankerous curmudgeons collapse, contrite.

Disdaining darkness, devoted disciples dig deep,...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: juxtaposing, silly,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Ekphrasis On the Man With the Golden Helmet
He stood still~
Eyes travel faster than a lightyear;
The many battles fought~
Still fresh in his mind~
The brilliance of his golden helmet
never fades~
Like the  tenacity of his...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: juxtaposing, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Metamorphose
A fabrication forged by fear
A fading message held so near
“Thou shalt not become inclined
To undermine the truth inside”

Settling the dark below
Juxtaposing with my soul
Frustration and...

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© Ian Petch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: juxtaposing, solitude,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ready To Go
Winter tested my endurance with its sharp and burning cold and now the warm lavender evening, with its smells and sounds of spring seem like...

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Categories: juxtaposing, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Between the Moon and the Sun (Culture)
My children, this is the pot with all my belongings
The way I got it from your ancestors hands
Its all in there
I have changed the shape...

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Categories: juxtaposing, history, philosophy
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things