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Best Overstretched Poems

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


Premium Member England - Gleaming In the Distance
across the Doggerland dogged people trudge
  Neanderthals, Heidelbergers...Sapiens, the last ones standing
  hairy mammoths, heavy life bearing down
  the mighty maw of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overstretched, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form: Narrative



Close Enough
Closer to the clouds 
Soaring through the soft misty flocks of vapour
Higher
Touching the overstretched never ending horizons
Stronger
Closer to the clouds
Reaching for the elusive galaxy scattered...

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Categories: overstretched, absence, art, bridal shower,
Form: Prose Poetry
My First Love 1st Prize Award Wining Poem African Love For All Awards
My first love
is a whore

but i want her back
because she always had my back

when everyone
threw me back, barked, nagged disappeared 
continuously on me

just because,
i try...

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Categories: overstretched, lost loveme, love, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Pangs of Loneliness At the Grande Elevator Company
The city doesn’t need any elevators
Or escalators or anything to push people up
There are no clouds in this brightened city
no bourgeoisie emancipation, no atypical beauty
silicon...

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Categories: overstretched, analogy, fantasy, funny,
Form: Blank verse
A Furtive, Surreptitious Affair
Hands touch, accidentally
Short, deep glances by me, as she looks the other away
Be sure not to get caught
Although I expect she’s doing the same
We can’t...

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Categories: overstretched, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Timeless Womb
Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green...

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Categories: overstretched, art, birth, blessing, change,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Cheery 2
CHEERY 2


Weathered wood bench
Old as us two;
Hardy as teak

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On this trip
Make ends meet;
Garage sales

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Joy seeds enough
No need for stuff;
Just call the bluff

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Just two old souls
In...

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Categories: overstretched, change,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member S-O-S Science Or Stupidity
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                        A
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Categories: overstretched, science, symbolism,
Form: Concrete
How To Write a Haiku
how to write haikus
its not big news that you choose 
only a few words 

if you like short ones 
then haikus are your best choice...

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Categories: overstretched, appreciation, poems,
Form: Haiku
Lost
I feel my head expanding
Exploding…
In trenches of darkness
That I do not see
Nor understand

I feel frustrations
Cover me like thorny vines
Yet I cannot make them out
I feel...

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© Fuzzy Sk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overstretched, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse
Jungle Ambush
crouch low, as tiger
                     ...

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Categories: overstretched, on work and working,
Form: Didactic
Collection of Covid 19 Poems
Forbidden Fruit

Wild bat hanging from a tree
Wings curled around furry body.
Sleeping soundly, nose twitches
Net captured, frightened creature.

Hot steaming Chinese market
Exotic animals everywhere.
Herbal medicine, cultural difference
Healing,...

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Categories: overstretched, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Dimples
Sit still, XXri Brook
Dimples, smile, light
Too much for the heavy flight
Of a daydream, happening 
Across from my mother’s anxious look
Is my reason in a book?
Maybe...

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Categories: overstretched, anxiety, home, i am,
Form: Bio
Familiar Strangers
been a long time, so far away,
  their smile hollow, mirth shallow,
    they try, but they're no longer one,
  ...

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Categories: overstretched, friendship, passion, people,
Form: Free verse
Across the Line
Morning came alive with rockets and missile pounding over my head and screams and shouts crying out like bleating sheep and empty vessels coming from...

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Categories: overstretched, absence, abuse, allah, america,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs