Get Your Premium Membership

Best Sprawl Poems

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


An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme



Artistic Night Sky
As dark canvas unfurls bit by bit
Randomly gulping down acrylic paints of dusk
To satisfy his own thirst, not for long, to sprawl
Into a magical cosmos...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, night, sky,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Zesty I Could Be Again
Apple blossoms flutter in the breeze.  Awakening,
Barefoot to the brook we go, brightly scampering,
Counting caterpillars discovered on our way -
Daffodil and daisy picking this...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, dream, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Colour of My Heart
Now brown, the once-blue brook meanders down
To dams where sludge has chased beavers away
As species die, our Mother casts a frown
For Nature can’t control man...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, nature, pollution,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Flower In the Crannied Wall
Oh, flower in this crannied wall,
how did your roots prevail and sprawl
from seed that landed in a crack-
so shallow, small, in woods set back
from warm...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, flower, metaphor, princess,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Tomorrow's Flowers
Across the Sprawl of wistful Fall
Through capricious Skies of broken Lies
Naive sweets leave tongues of the young
As the last leaf of summer dies

To Escape the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, hope, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes
Agendas in modern schedules,
drive us to our personal goals,
and we rarely look to the wayside,
where lies unfortunate souls,
whose dreams are lying in tatters,
dispirited with broken...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weeping Willow
Heavenly realm of the weeping willow,
Its eyes dare not shed a tear of sorrow.
Arms down, it stands, with solemn grace,
As the wind...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprawl, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, earth, environment, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abandoned Flowers
Abandoned flowers placed against the wall,
stems bent and twisted, limp and on display.
In long, straight row they line the gloomy hall;
these wilted gems now spent,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, allegory, death, flower, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Heart Song On a Milk Carton. (Reposted)
Wont you find me here?
  Drifting in an expanse of swirling storm
Outstreched fingers graze debris...
         recklessly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, introspection, loss, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Abbotsford Road
I'm swept up in mixed emotions
when I walk down Abbotsford Road.
They fill my memory-ocean 
where waves of feeling erode
the moments from my childhood
when time was...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, beautiful, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribe of Wood
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the forest I am with my tribe of wood and leaf, among the giants whose roots hug the earth. It is a place of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawl, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs