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Best Outspread Poems

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Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



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Categories: outspread, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad



A Night At the Desolate Harbor
The ship in the habor on silvery seas
Lay vacant outspread 'neath the glassy moon
Drifting in cold whispers of the night
Like a drunk man shriveled on...

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Categories: outspread, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Buttercups Spreads
On a field of green grass
Yellow buttercups spread mast
Row on row of the spread mass
Coating the field un surpassed
With yellow buttercups outspread
On grassy fields spread...

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Categories: outspread, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Rhythm of My Body
I dance when my eyes blink
I dance to touch your soul with an indelible ink

I dance when my heart sings
I dance to give a caged...

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Categories: outspread, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Kiss
His girl’s amorous, uninhibited.
She flirted with his friends turning them red
though she was all in, never gibbeted.
He’d been away a stretch, her arms outspread.
Her lips...

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Categories: outspread, kiss,
Form: Sonnet



Exploring the Sky
By clasping the lightning string
I reach the sky
Wondrous view there, I spy 

Sitting on the fluffy clouds
I roam everywhere
Outspread clouds, my magic chairs

Crafting shapes out...

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Categories: outspread, angel, blessing, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bedknobs, Bell Curves and a Broomstick
"Bugger the "Group" mentality. I say burn it up with a revolutionary act, start your own Group. If you didn't exist, there would be no...

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Categories: outspread, character, courage, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Strength of Truly Gentle Men
The Strength of Truly Gentle Men


Who wouldst decry such chivalry
deny the outspread cloak, the proffered hand,
plod through puddled mud, drag silken train,
in smug reproach of...

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Categories: outspread, culture, society,
Form: Sonnet
A Gift of Red
He caught me one night,
As I shivered with cold,
His words drew me forward,
As hearts stories were told.
Stories of love,
Of passions so pure,
Of lifes deep regrets,
Yet...his...

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Categories: outspread, friendship, happy, love, me,
Form: Couplet
Brave: Gravity
Petals: pristine~pure desire float
lullabies roam aspheric space
touches reached just out of scope

Brave: gravity glides on outspread wings
with the willow weeping sullenly low
blanket in balance a...

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Categories: outspread, analogy, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two English Sonnets
When a Man Loves a Woman


When a man loves a woman,  he believes
And frees his heart from being self-contained
To feel emotions in depth he...

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Categories: outspread, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Flames
I'm not alive, 
but indeed I grow
even more yet 
as I'm fed.

I have not lungs, 
but must have air
and space 
for my outspread.

No mouth have...

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Categories: outspread, fire, power, riddle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Luck Laced
cherished clover green
coronet topped purple plume
search out the four-leafed sprite

eye to lawn outspread
taste of bee sweet blossom red
leprechauns key find

pressed between pages
still lucks’ keepsake enclosed
more...

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Categories: outspread, nostalgia
Form: Choka
Premium Member Rain And Things
It has rained in waves all night
Thunder roared; lightning flashed its light
Snuggling down under the covers
My sanity trying to recover

Wondering about the wild things plight
Infinitesimal...

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Categories: outspread, spring, weather,
Form: Other
Painting the Earth
When a rainbow is painted across the sky
And the colors are still not quite dry,
Any passing bird or butterfly
Will, with wings outspread, come too close
And...

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Categories: outspread, uplifting,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Shattered Sighs