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


Premium Member The Other Self
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Somehow, her eyes expand with the disobedient sky
and there, she senses urchins filling water on the lake
her feet and thighs slide up changing...

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Categories: ranged, fantasy, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member It's the Thought That Counts
My abiding memory of 2015 is of events that are so sad
With my father’s death, it’s the worst year I’ve ever had

It has been the...

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Categories: ranged, christmas, giving, humorous, memory,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Ode To Bobby Fischer
Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ranged, death, eulogy, memorial, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Whats Broken
What’s Broken?

Some things that are broken can never be fixed
Like hearts shattered, as glass on the floor
What felt like love, don’t no more
No distance No...

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Categories: ranged, break up, emotions, moving
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Big Regret
Seeing a wrong and doing very little
           to right it. . . 
I’m sure this...

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Categories: ranged, caregiving, youth,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Grounded
Stood at the upstairs window, hands face down
fists clenched, knuckles touching cool windowsill.
Crows, silhouette cut-outs surveyed the town
from aerials and ranged the skies at will.
I...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ranged, identity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fragrant Families
I was a skillful, amiable nursery worker, cultivating blooms in a greenhouse,
Like feverish and fragrant blooms, often grown in redbird's green treehouse.

Hours were spent sowing...

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Categories: ranged, beauty, dream, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet
I Am My Father's Son
They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one...

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Categories: ranged, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Grandfather Clock
By Curtis Johnson

In May of ‘63, daddy’s demise came early when he was only 58, leaving mama widowed at 35 with eleven minor children. Essentially...

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Categories: ranged, blessing, dad, family, father,
Form: Narrative
Robin Hood and H G
Robin Hood was captured
Thrown in the castle cells
Here he met an inmate
By the name of H.G.Wells.
Herbert George is fascinated
By the story our Robin has to...

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Categories: ranged, future, , cute,
Form: Narrative
A Skateboarders New Lust For Love
Im going to tell you a story about a skateboarder who thought he was destined to only love skateboarding. Not to long ago there young...

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Categories: ranged, beautiful, beauty, girlfriend, ,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bad On Bad Parts 1-2-3-4-Now 5
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We've been riding now, for days
On this dry and dusty plain
Headed to a land, that's never tasted rain
The posse has been thinning out
As men head...

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Categories: ranged,
Form: Rhyme
Ponies Trampling Snorted Dreams -
Where no ponies free ranged, I dreamt to break and wrangle paints.
            Where ponies...

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Categories: ranged, analogy, conflict, desire, dream,
Form: Sijo
Boys Beware
By the side of the loch some boys at play, when into their midst there came
A beautiful white and riderless horse with a long and...

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Categories: ranged, fantasy, horse, boy,
Form: Rhyme
1955 Was a Very Good Year
1955 Was a Very Good Year

By Elton Camp

A better year in my life I have never seen
Because, back then, I was only age fifteen
Nobody I...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ranged, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things