Best Expanded Poems
Below are the all-time best Expanded poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of expanded poems written by PoetrySoup members
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
expanded, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
expanded, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Yellow Shoes In the DarknessWalking through the land of shadows
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues
The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...
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Categories:
expanded, me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form:
Quatrain
SpacesAs my thoughts shrink my mind expands
Growing into the spaces between my words
The words of others
Refreshed within the pauses
Dancing inside possibilities
Filling in the blanks
Words suspended
Within...
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Categories:
expanded, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Hero Code: DecodedEnthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...
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Categories:
expanded, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Muted BlueI'll hold this place for her loving faintly-
fragile, and tepid outer layer veils so thinly
a gorgeous core shining bright and quietly
Her eyes say...
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Categories:
expanded, love
Form:
Free verse
The Soul of WordsIn black and white, I adore framing my inner thoughts, my worries, my wants and hopes… Words! a world of abiding renewal… a space of...
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Categories:
expanded, art, creation, inspiration, poetry,
Form:
Haibun
As Time Went By - So Did WeSeconds:
If there was a second I didn't think about you
God himself would have to point it out
Because this sample of heaven is 24/7
As the minutes...
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Categories:
expanded, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 14Despite his impatience to show me his hell,
He waited for me in my rest,
Lying upon the ground, I awoke in prayer,
Thanking God above and...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form:
Epic
Yellow Shoes In the DarknessWalking through the land of shadows, wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step, I created color and lovely hues
The shadows started retreating as colour...
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Categories:
expanded, adventure, perspective, yellow,
Form:
Couplet
When I Think of YouWhen I think of you..I get the warm feel of friendship,
born not in a place, but from time and space.
Friendship has a price --...
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Categories:
expanded, friendship, heart, poetry, time,
Form:
Verse
Chalk LineChalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and
little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch.
How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes
do you imagine have...
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Categories:
expanded, anger, death, grave, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its...
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Categories:
expanded, courage, gothic, heart, light,
Form:
Epic
A Night To RememberSo sweet a kiss
The murmuring tunes of Spring
In the fragrant breath of night
Hums within my slumbering ears.
Like the whispering trees dancing
In the softest dews descending
From...
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Categories:
expanded, beauty, creation, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 23I conversed with the lone demon,
Who had asked for redemption on an earlier day
On this day her voice was mightier,
More brave, and powerful
She dared not...
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Categories:
expanded, bible, change, conflict, irony,
Form:
Epic