Best Sparse Poems
Below are the all-time best Sparse poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sparse poems written by PoetrySoup members
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the...
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Categories:
sparse, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Lions Led By a DonkeyI could see the virus approaching so why couldn't he?
But he had to keep investors happy and save the economy
On his watch people in their...
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Categories:
sparse, death, england, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Internal Bonfire Among Bitter BreathsAs a misty autumn succumbs to winters harsh chilling grasp.
The sky turns bleak and hues of shrouding grey.
The ominous days unfold shorter and colder.
The remnants...
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Categories:
sparse, analogy, hope, winter,
Form:
Free verse
White AngelsHow many roses since have come and gone?
he thought as he sat looking at her grave.
How many futures had been staked upon
those brilliant blooms to...
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Categories:
sparse, death, lost love, moving
Form:
Ottava rima
Categories:
sparse, autumn, celebration, earth, family,
Form:
Free verse
The Lake of CharityThe Lake of Charity
The hill stood tall and stately,
Wind soughed through its sparse trees.
Below a lake spread, at times calm,
At times quite horribly stormy.
He knelt...
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Categories:
sparse, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Narrow MarginNarrow Margin 2-12-24 This or That Vol. 23 Poetry Contest - Edward Ibeh
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Narrow Margin
Between finite and eternity
A thin sharp wire divides,
Footsteps that often stumble,
Arms...
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Categories:
sparse, conflict, relationship, space,
Form:
Free verse
The Old BearThe Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...
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Categories:
sparse, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Winters EndHereabouts the thinning glades
Of sparse grey Birches:
Brackens crisp copper tresses
All aglow;
Gently waking Snowdrops
Lift their sleepy heads
From leafy beds of woodland moil,
When tucked snugly up,
Out...
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Categories:
sparse, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am WinterI am winter
I can hear the birds singing,
calling for the sun to rise
from dark branches scraping an alabaster sky
Full of life they sound,
perched...
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Categories:
sparse, winter,
Form:
Free verse
A Casual ObservationIt was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...
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Categories:
sparse, angst,
Form:
Haibun
I Will Tell YouI will tell you when they met:
in the burnished flush of autumn,
when each rising of the sun
turned each golden leaf more golden.
With the trees and...
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Categories:
sparse, autumn, lost love, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
sparse, 6th grade, autumn, change,
Form:
Free verse
Internal Bonfire Among Bitter BreathsAs a misty autumn succumbs to winters harsh chilling grasp.
The sky turns bleak and hues of shrouding grey.
The ominous days unfold shorter and colder.
The remnants...
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Categories:
sparse, autumn, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Haunted HouseThe Haunted House
‘Room to Let’ the signage read,
and though it looked run down,
I’d found no other place to stay
since I was new in town.
When...
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Categories:
sparse, halloween, house, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme