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Best Spanning Poems

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


Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...

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Categories: spanning, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Squalling Seagulls Sip Morning Sunshine
Squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
Greeting new sun, spanning over vast sea
Wailing upon hills, watching freedom shine
Sprinkling over prairies echoes of glee

Greeting new sun, spanning...

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Categories: spanning, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Pantoum
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: spanning, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gettysburg Hauntings
Gettysburg Hauntings

When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863

Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered

Fifty-one thousand lives lost in...

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Categories: spanning, history, mystery, visionarywar, war,
Form: Couplet
Sweet Dixie
A land unto its own as old as dirt
Condemned by voguish northern state of mind
This realm you'd be hard-pressed to disconcert
Though his'try would prefer it...

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Categories: spanning, beautiful, deep, food, happiness,
Form: Sonnet



The Art of Loving You
Monet


Come with me, let us rekindle love –
walk with me over bridges aglow
while rivers magically glisten below.
If you hold my hand, 
perhaps, we might spy...

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Categories: spanning, art, city, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fleeing Emptiness
Moon is still behind glum clouds
Sullen is the garb of a silent sky
So much like how he feels tonight
Anxious in the night laden in dark

Stars...

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Categories: spanning, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
Arctic Seasoned Disguise
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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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Categories: spanning, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cosmic Siren
* A collaboration with the wonderful poetess Subhadra Naryann. Please check out her heartfelt poems here on PS.

In transcendental dreams a lover's voice
seduces from beyond...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spanning, desire, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the Forest of My Dreams
Where conifers gaily waltz tempos evergreen
Unspoiled by human deeds, pure, and pristine,
Eagles soar there, spanning freedom wings 
And trees gently whisper to rhythmic bird trills
Echoing...

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Categories: spanning, environment, inspiration, rainforest,
Form: Verse
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: spanning, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chimera
This magical fairy who paints my dreams
Has blushed my fantasy in subtle hints
That kissed dreamy night on the thrills of fall--
An amber delight on the...

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Categories: spanning, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Covered Bridge
Tired timbers creak and groan;
lonely bones now brittle,
once proud and strong when
bearing the harvest weight.
The wagons and muscular engines
were no burden for my
young and supple...

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Categories: spanning, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Across Realms
Far away, from the rim of the Earth
Beyond the oceans, beyond human reach,
Across realms, I have found my way,
Into the aerial pockets of the blue.

On...

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Categories: spanning, death, heaven, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Free Gift After the Rain
Lo! A spectrum of colors
In the misty cerulean sky
God’s benevolent gift graciously bestowed
After a light drizzle

A rainbow- nature’s lovely poem
Written on the widest canvas
An arch...

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Categories: spanning, color, heaven, joy, sky,
Form: Free verse

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