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Best Full Range Poems

Below are the all-time best Full Range poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of full range poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Dance of Cranes On Coming Home
It waits on the wedge of a field
no longer lonely, another
 floats in for a landing above
 a sea of yellow flowers

Who will  forget...

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Categories: full range, absence, beauty, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pretty Pets
I've had many pets in my life.
Right now two cats and I abide
In my small house the size for us,
But I can't let this pair...

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Categories: full range, animal,
Form: Sonnet
Earth Day
Earth Day
A mighty soul squeezes into a body.
For the first time or the 10,000st – no matter – 
It’s humbling, so   h u...

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Categories: full range, earth day, journey, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Allah's Health Care Lament
I would add to all Evolutionary Cooperative Warriors
a nuance regarding my teleological
raison d'etre
defined as "freedom to choose"
as not necessarily sufficient to define my purpose of...

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Categories: full range, allah, analogy, feelings, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Praise of a Roller Coaster Ride
Version 1: 

Some writhe in fear before a roller coaster ride, 
You would think they just wouldn’t get on it.
I think I’ve felt worse just...

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Categories: full range, life,
Form: Rhyme



A Creole Woman
With her skin all over the castle breath,
growing so fine and fiery,
waiting for men through the spring,
countless as a dozen, 
I wait for my turns...

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Categories: full range, women,
Form: Free verse
Drunken Pen
I am a drunken pen, or at least thats what they call me in the betting shop at 4.55pm on a Saturday afternoon. Kept deep...

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Categories: full range, funny, imagination, me, day,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Spring Muse
She is elusive, shy, anticipated
by a waiting world - perhaps too much,
in that she hides herself reluctant to
appear - delicate as the first leaves
her gowns...

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Categories: full range, beauty, muse, spring,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member God's Utopian Church
I was listening to a Christian theologian friend of mine
speaking about the Messiah's,
and St. Paul's,
original intention when singing praises of God's here/not-here Kingdom,
and potential as...

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Categories: full range, christian, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Seagulls
Above summer clouds the seagulls enjoyed the sky;
Today you disappeared, the sad empty space cries;
You gave up the beloved Rocky Mountains domain,
Left behind the dear...

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Categories: full range, bird, freedom, weather,
Form: Verse
Goodbye
Feeling such despair..
We were a pair..
My heart is heavy with a tear..

You left me..
Why can't you see
I shall never let this be..

You never said goodbye..
May...

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Categories: full range, feelings, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Rhyme
You Dirty Rat
If infinity has no end, then where did it all begin?
Opinions were given by...
Theories pondered and the proof has been under Investigation by...
The private eye...

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Categories: full range, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Motion Practice
Seven Morning Stars

In the western Carpathian piedmont
Which my grandfathers left long before,
The peregrine falcon flees likewise
From a tableau of fresco tradition,
Superstition, and tempera myth.

The me...

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Categories: full range, allegory, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Welcoming Shelter
There’s an aged Eastern cedar tree
not far from the steps of my back door.
Enormous and quite old it harbors
a full range of flora and fauna
that...

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Categories: full range, animal, bird, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thunderstruck
A prisoner she’s not - breaks out of cage.
In absence of spotlight, still darkness fades.
We’re thunderstruck, she’s breathtaking on stage.

Audience favorite, her star pervades.
Her proverbial...

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Categories: full range, granddaughter,
Form: Terzanelle

Book: Shattered Sighs