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Best Long Drawn Out Poems

Below are the all-time best Long Drawn Out poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of long drawn out poems written by PoetrySoup members


Tribute For a Commendable Soul
All across these scattered shining isles,
Framed inside a bright clasp of sapphire sea,
A softly persuasive wind that so beguiles,
Reaching gently out, thusly prevails unto me.
And...

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Categories: long drawn out, death, devotion, feelings, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



I Knew You From a Distant Dream
I knew you from a distant dream
The sweet streams cry out
The dumb rocks perspire with dew
My heart flutters in your comely grace
You're more beautiful than...

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Categories: long drawn out, dream, imagery, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Miracle On 10th Street
On many long, drawn out nights, his routine was to
shuffle aimlessly along dimly lit city streets.
Much of the time, his only companion was a
concealed remnant...

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Categories: long drawn out, loneliness, loss, sick,
Form: Free verse
The Village On the Water
Heavily laden boats, rectangular sails billowing 
    Under seas of low cloud, braving the fierce Yangtze;      ...

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Categories: long drawn out, appreciation, environment, winter,
Form: Free verse
A Season of Warmth Part One
The beauty of lies, 
      Between your eyes. 
The song of drugs 
      I find...

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Categories: long drawn out, angstsong, song, drug,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member My Night Journey
 Let me tell you a story of my night journey;

After a hazardous trip from a far off state
With drooping spirits and waning energy
I alighted...

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Categories: long drawn out, anxiety, dark, fear, night,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Museum Lights
The museum closed for ever,
and I was there
when they turned off the lights

They were turned off one by one...
At first the boardroom's
where Jacqui cried, I...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long drawn out, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song of The Rainbow Butterfly No 1: ABAB
A faithful atmospheric worth of you,
equal in statuesque rainbow possess.
Grace a forest wake to rumored jewel,
long drawn-out winks ethereal blesses.
Favoring flowers blossoming parades,
a living garden...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long drawn out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Sacrificial Lamb
Not all news of its existence brings joy – 
a heartbeat is denied the trumpets
instead, news is shared in long drawn 
out breaths with eyes...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long drawn out, abortion, anxiety, betrayal, lust,
Form: Ekphrasis
Mother Earth
And now a massive hole in the ozone layer
Global warming, not really mentioned before
Like all the wild life and all of the agriculture
Fossil fuels were...

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Categories: long drawn out, write,
Form: Rhyme
In Cupped Hands
In cupped hands you hold a world of scented butterflies
where time hangs from a golden thread spun with tears and night
where nasturtiums grow from seeds...

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Categories: long drawn out, life, mystery, places, romance,
Form: I do not know?
Deadly Waves of the Sea
The night was dark and stormy, lightning lit up the sky
Your little boat was rocked and tossed around in the sea
the sharp and jagged rocks...

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Categories: long drawn out, devotion, fear, husband, life,
Form: Rhyme
When
April 26, 2018 Thursday 9:10 am  A COMING APART OR A COMING TOGETHER


	WHEN WILL I HAVE YOU?	

	I ask
	oh, anything to get you to focus...

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Categories: long drawn out, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At the Saloon
The Grizzly Old Cowboy's Night At The Saloon


That wash-bin washed away tons of trail-dirt
Many a pint of blood too said the old man
He was lean...

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Categories: long drawn out, art, death, history, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Death of a Dream
Death of a Dream
      by Amy Swanson


Time
   existence
       goes by
  ...

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Categories: long drawn out, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs