Short Contrast Poems

Short Contrast Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Contrast by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Contrast by length and keyword.


Symphony of Subtlety

Gentle silhouette
A contrast to her fierce heart,
Moving gracefully
Yet her beauty's conquering,
Symphony of subtlety
Form: Tanka


Italian Prudery

Hisham Melhem
insists it must be either us or them
that prudish box
such a peculiar contrast to those Berlusconi jocks.
age
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Red Leaves

Red leaves are a bright contrast

   to all the glorious green.

Like a girl with a new frock

   saying "Look at me!"
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member CLERIHEW XLVI ecphrasis malevich

Prolific Kasmir Malevich
a diverse talent so very rich
'Resting*'with figuarative guile
a contrast with his abstract style
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Contrast

In the noisy forest that loomed dark, dense and dreary a python, like a dead log lay without sound.
Form: Verse


Calendar

In it, the calendar, every day,
           tragedy, celebration,  gains, losses...
           it's fête, fiesta, always party ...
Form: Epigram

sweetened plantains with ice

Cherry flowers bloom, 
But for now, this time around,
I pick by myself.
I stare into the sunset, 
To contrast myself from trash.
Form: Tanka

Do and Don'T

1. Do not persuade
2. Do not incite
3. Do not write directly
4. Do not contrast
5. Do to know, to feel, to think about sufferings.

In Mary's Warm Arms

In the freezing night
In the cold world of mankind
In Mary’s warm arms
Laid burning love wrapped in flesh
An incinerating light
Form: Tanka

BEACON

BEACON

A contrast to night
You are both dawn and sunset
More subtle than day
You are my destination
And a light I can steer by
Form: Tanka

Mirriors

contrast between our lives not one soul survives contagious how they leer i am allowed no fear destroyed, my sanity dives
Form: Limerick

HUMOROUS CONTRAST


        



        In the Lady Godiva competition
             a nude lady won...
   Others in formal attire were disqualified!
Form: Burlesque

Premium Member Heavy Light Contrast-

Weight of a feather is a ton, ever so light as a raindrop a chrysanthemum~





10/21/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Form: Monoku

CONTRASTING VISIONS



        




        all is perfection and beauty
       for a pure and amicable vision
       all is ugly for a defective soul
Form: Epigram

Human Lives In Balance

human contrast !
               Throughout the life journey,
               many share crumbs,
               few are crammed of bread ...
Form: Epigram

CLEAR CONTRAST


         

          The white heron, in stark contrast,
           became even more visibly white
            as it perched on the mud.
Form: Burlesque

Premium Member Haiku 119

HAIKU #119:


Easy feelings abide
Silence spreads sound say;
Contrast beyond words

~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
18 Nov 2020
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Excess Dilemma

A man
with excess of money
 IS not exactly lucky...
But a wretch of fortune !
Or hazard...
with enormous aplomb
to agony and unhappiness...!

TWO EYES

Darkness
Prevails as lights
go off, on a cold night
But for the ghostly gleaming glare -
Black cat

Copyright © 2026 by Crystal David John
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Contrast




          the rocks are sturdy
     silent contrast of stillness
          where the river flows


Heidi Sands

8/12/26

(C)opyright
Form: Haiku

Tear

a tear in each eye
surviving the bad hair days
my tumor and I
both shrink from radiation
the treatments tear us apart

contrast for the word "tear"
Form: Tanka

Human Beings Contrast

the beggars
              collect and eat
        sans dishes, no forks and spoons
            What the affluent reject
            and do not consume

Music

In the music of life there will be sound and rest,
In every day there will be work and rest,
The contrast is important,
Finding the balance is the test.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Silent Musings

koel’s song
so soothing
uplifts heart

the crow’s caw
so jarring
but why so

does contrast
not enhance
soul’s stirrings

15-March-2023
Tricube
Form: Other

Premium Member Noumena and phenomena

Liken space as God,
as the womb of existence,
that’s in but not of the world.

Made in God’s image,
we transmit to Him by touch,
colouration of contrast.
Form: Sedoka

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