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
England - Gleaming In the Distanceacross 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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Categories:
overstretched, conflict, destiny, england, history,
Form:
Narrative
Close EnoughCloser 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 AwardsMy 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 CompanyThe 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 AffairHands 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
Timeless WombSeed - 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
Cheery 2CHEERY 2
Weathered wood bench
Old as us two;
Hardy as teak
~~~~~~~~~
On this trip
Make ends meet;
Garage sales
~~~~~~~~~
Joy seeds enough
No need for stuff;
Just call the bluff
~~~~~~~~~
Just two old souls
In...
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Categories:
overstretched, change,
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
overstretched, science, symbolism,
Form:
Concrete
How To Write a Haikuhow 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
LostI 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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Categories:
overstretched, lost, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
overstretched, on work and working,
Form:
Didactic
Collection of Covid 19 PoemsForbidden 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 Strangersbeen 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 LineMorning 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