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Premium Member Comparison Between Byron and Me On Francesca
I was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's...

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Categories: comparison, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Terza Rima
Comparison
A distant voice is like a fading colour
a muted version of reality
I'm hiding from the noise, always under cover
in fear of losing gravity.

A solitary flower...

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Categories: comparison, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
A Fishy Comparison
I can’t understand the ambition
Of people who love to go fishin’.
   Outsmarting your dinner
   Might say you’re a winner,
But what when...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparison, fish, fishing, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Hungry Spirit, a Comparison
I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these...

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Categories: comparison, history, hope, life,
Form: Concrete
A Poetic Comparison: Silence Vs Blah-Blah-Blah
Stone pillars erected against the gales, 
Silenced in buried secrets deep. 

Hurled discourse from crested toppled waves,
Endless tattle tossed in a heap....

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Categories: comparison, truth,
Form: Free verse
Mayfly's Comparison
The lifetime of a mayfly is a
single day leading to eternity,
while a single day for a man 
may be lost and ever forgotten

Within seven days...

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Categories: comparison, absence, anger, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Comparison of the Tree
Thumping with a life, blood flowing through veins
Beauty composes the view, weather vanes
Brown, red, yellow, orange are all present
Dormancy floods tree seeming heaven sent
But death...

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Categories: comparison, tree,
Form: Sonnet
A Horrible Comparison - Mutualism
We are like Mark and C,

Words are tactile in our place,
A space where silence doesn't roar.
Eros has his home in here,
The world speak highly of...

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Categories: comparison, love,
Form: Quatrain
Comparison
“Shall I compare thee to summer’s day?”
Asked Shakespeare,
But did not stay for an answer!
Thiruvalluvar compared timely help
To human hands hastening 
To right a slipping dress.
Bharati...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparison, education, irony, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Comparison - a Futile Thought
If I compare your charm with moon’s ray?
Stars will wage war by saying they are more temperate;
Snakes may take me to the task,
I may have...

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Categories: comparison, appreciation, beautiful, girlfriend, love,
Form: Quatern
If We
If we were a beach
then you would be the sand, diamond warmth,
and I the shingle underfoot.

If we were a pen
then I would be invisible ink,
and...

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Categories: comparison, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Missing Piece
My Life is definitely trying to tell me something....
It is almost certainly painting a picture, but I can't see what it's a picture
of.
It's been a...

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Categories: comparison, adventure, analogy, confidence, cool,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gorge
I saw a gorge, a remote vision from distant, far far away from the surface, how sharp, how precipitous, how deep!

A  singular, unsurpassed, cavernous  cleft;
a...

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Categories: comparison, absence, appreciation, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Day Is Our Life
Life dawns like sunrise
Soft pinks and blues against the black from which it came
Sudden burst of light stretching fingers and toes
Receiving blankets of fluffy white
Soft...

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© Lena Pate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comparison, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Imagism
Simile of Life
SIMILE OF LIFE
Life like a stir case
Climbing it with pains which thou face
Life like education
After thorough three time scrutiny thou due for promotion
Life like the...

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Categories: comparison, life,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry