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Best Expansive Poems

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


Premium Member Soft Wind
Soft wind, warm and weightless 
That brushes my cheeks in cool of day
And on warm moonlit nights of summer 
Let me lay upon your expansive...

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Categories: expansive, blessing, faith, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In Scarlet Dawn
If I have the time, I’ll wait eons, to greet you in scarlet dawn
As you marvel its vermillion garb embossing marigold arc
Emanating golden sparks, piercing...

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Categories: expansive, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member I Wander the Desert Alone
Aimlessly I meander in expansive barren-landscape
Whipped by the assault of rustling windy gales
Embossing sandy designs resembling ocean waves
Simulating pools of water in mirage of seascapes.

Plateaus...

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Categories: expansive, imagery, metaphor, nature, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Might They Find There
What might you find there
down deep in my soul
Within the darkness
of that expansive hole
Will there be substance 
Will there be diamonds or coal
Step down the...

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Categories: expansive, angst, conflict, desire, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Remember Me
Remember Me

Cold wet coastal today
I escaped
Sat myself behind a sanctuary
The rain beating rhythms
On window panes
Hot coffee and brandy
Warm inside The Athena Café

Radio spends its missed...

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Categories: expansive, loverain, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Yesterday's Song Forfeited Rhythm
When yesterday’s song forfeited rhythm
And past surrendered to dreams undone,

Spontaneous clamor of poignant echoes
Shattered her image in saddened mirror
Disillusioned by her heart’s revelation.

Merely clinging to...

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Categories: expansive, emotions, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Albatross
Farewell. Great lady of the sea,
your sad expression impressed
against the wry wind screen,
your final moment fixed
within a haunting mind. One by
one the family file out,...

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Categories: expansive, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who We Are
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We are like a magnificent tree:
Expansive and deep.

Our branches and leaves grow towards the light:
reaching, unfolding, and becoming.

Our deep roots ground us:
holding us steady connecting...

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Categories: expansive, introspection, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Journey - Part 1b
“Winter’s Journey”  (Part 1b)


Your mother's Universe resounds inside you 
where you are every single sparkling star 
in every planet’s sky, the Galaxies are vast...

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Categories: expansive, daughter, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Empty Quarter
Desirous dust devils dance for a glowing gold god,
withering winds wandering whither they wish.

Silenced as shadows stretch, silhouetting strange shapes,
elongated ellipses etching the expansive emptiness.

Quickly...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expansive, earth, nature, stars, universe,
Form: Alliteration
Things We Think
Things We Think

He said, “Every man is busy earning money.” 
She said, “Is there anything more important than love?”
He said, “Is there anything more important...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expansive, death, love, money, space,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member When I Think of You
When 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: expansive, friendship, heart, poetry, time,
Form: Verse
Forest Trail
I am the forest trail
steep and dangerous
expansive and free
my rocks could be your bearings
or they could give away under your feet
I can offer water and...

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Categories: expansive, confusion, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Denali National Park
Travel with me to a nature lover's dream
Denali's grandeur is the unfolding theme
Expansive vistas paint a wondrous scene
Snow covered peaks look quite so pristine.

Morning sun...

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Categories: expansive, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member When I Think of You
When 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: expansive, friendship, heart, heart, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs