Best Opposite Poems
Below are the all-time best Opposite poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of opposite poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
opposite, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
I Think Of You - After The Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I
i think of you
I wish someone could...
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Categories:
opposite, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
A Prince for RoseanneA long long time ago there lived a king.
His lovely daughter he’d give anything.
She walked about, jewels dripping from each hand,
talking down to all, thinking...
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Categories:
opposite, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sand Dollar DreamsIt's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...
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Categories:
opposite, memory, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Poetic NotionsGrounded by the gravity of our earth
Our body and spirit are often pulled
In opposite opposing directions in
...
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Categories:
opposite, character, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...
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Categories:
opposite, memory, missing you, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dusty Old BooksA book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...
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Categories:
opposite, memory,
Form:
Free verse
STREETLIFEI’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a...
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Categories:
opposite, environment, society,
Form:
Free verse
By then we'll be deadWhispers and intrigue
and things that shan’t be said,
not uttered or stuttered--
minds shuttered instead.
You cannot, you shall not,
believe your own eyes.
You must put your trust...
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Categories:
opposite, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Dear Humanity:Dear Humanity:
You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new...
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Categories:
opposite, corruption, earth, humanity, pollution,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
101 POETS101 POETS
I want to thank 101 poets, when words have no limit.
All 101 spots full of flowing imagery and spirit.
Nathan Dilts my #1~writing for...
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Categories:
opposite, celebration, community, dedication, friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Crescent WaltzShe slants her shining, golden glance
Across desert, mountains, rivers, plants
Greets her rising, true romance
In the purpling, opposite skies
Her lunar love, her heart’s delight
Soars to ever...
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Categories:
opposite, allegory, friendship, life, love,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Like a RockI carry my mother
like a rock in my pocket
that I just can’t seem to throw away
It serves me
no purpose,
it just...
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Categories:
opposite, childhood, confusion, daughter, family,
Form:
Free verse
- Even Tears Freeze -
Cold,
numb
In my
deep depths of
vanished existence
Runs in darkness without a goal
I never resting, goes in opposite directions
Unknown in wilderness without qualification, even tears freeze to...
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Categories:
opposite, depression, destiny, emotions,
Form:
Fibonacci
Categories:
opposite, dedication, destiny, love, people,
Form:
Concrete
I didn't answer, I didn't need to
I didn’t answer, I didn’t need to
How did this happen,
amidst words, phrases,
stones skipped on poetic ponds
Not looking for or expecting
a touch to the heart, a...
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Categories:
opposite, love,
Form:
Free verse
My Five Senses
The pitch the peak of senses piqued
each completely
Let me see
searching my memory
biking down Laurier
locking eyes with a hawk flying in the opposite lane
is probably...
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Categories:
opposite, senses, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
A TRIBUTE THE VERY BEAUTIFUL ANNE-LISE - 'SUNSHINE SMILE'Phwoaarh! Anne-Lise really is hot
‘Old woman’ she really is not
With lovely blonde hair
Men ogle and stare
Her husband has hit the jackpot!
Yesterday a vitriolic comment was...
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Categories:
opposite, anti bullying, beauty, poetess,
Form:
Limerick
ACCEPTING LIFE V
I turned,
towards my friend, who always was complaining
about the injustices and hardships of life and in
a calm voice I asked him:
" Tell me,...
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Categories:
opposite, happiness, life, men,
Form:
Free verse
A Love StoryThe girl is an ultra-modern scholar,
Belongs with an upper-middle class family.
Looking very nice, smart, gets angry suddenly.
She reads M.A in English at...
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Categories:
opposite, culture, deep, emotions, loss,
Form:
Free verse
WHO AM I
Who am I?
This is a question that unable, I am, a
Definite answer, straightforward to give
For
Buried I find myself, under layers upon layers of
Beliefs...
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Categories:
opposite, creation, introspection, life, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
Breast Cancer Awareness This is a short piece for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I lost a close friend very talented, very young to breast cancer. I also lost...
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Categories:
opposite, cancer,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
opposite, day, dedication, emotions, life,
Form:
Couplet
As For Me I BelieveIt is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young,
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...
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Categories:
opposite, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Unraveling Self-EsteemWhen you were born...
a gift you received.
Invisible knitting needles...
can you believe?
The yarn started out white,
then you added the the colors...
depending what happened
as you reacted to...
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Categories:
opposite, encouraging, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
I do not know?