Best Sprawled Poems
Paper Boats
...(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)
You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings flutter and soar,
and my ......
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Categories:
sprawled, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Streams of Imagination
...early dawn cracks the wispy air
open , wandering around viscous spaces
like fairy shadows caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,
taller than maple trees delicately r......
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Categories:
sprawled, imagination, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Genie In a Gin Bottle
...Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream
But this Genie found the palace doors locked
Her youth distilled in......
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Categories:
sprawled, love, sad,
Form:
Free verse
To An Injured Fox Cub - With Thanks To Michael Coy
...Today I found you cornered, drenched in cold,
your fur coat nothing but a newborn's down,
a tiny ball unfolding while I hold
you shivering. Your lacerations frown
and at a distance, I can see t......
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Categories:
sprawled, analogy, animal, hurt, metaphor,
Form:
Quatrain
Valley’s Echo Singular Song
..."In the echo of silence, the whispers of the Divine are heard." By Rumi
I entered the winding path into the captivating vale
Surrounded by ice-capped mountains and ancient trees
Firs, la......
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Categories:
sprawled, bird, mountains, river,
Form:
Imagism
A Twisted Tale -Jane's Jewel-
...Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"
On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to undress
Two pretty trimmed tops, eating like ......
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Categories:
sprawled, adventure, celebration, dark, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Photographs and Poems
...With my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
a hundred gulls flap in brief moments: carefully,
I seize the image, a......
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Categories:
sprawled, art, beauty, film, words,
Form:
Imagism
The Black Hills Wept For Thee
...The Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota,
Part of the Great Sioux Nation.
On saddled charge......
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Categories:
sprawled, betrayal, blessing, children, december,
Form:
Ballad
The Dancing Tree
...Long long ago in a lonely lovely hill
When earth was young, handsome and green
Besides the meadow near the curly winding flow
There stood a tree proudly high and spry.
Swaying and dancing in wh......
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Categories:
sprawled, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form:
Narrative
A Little Kindness Never Hurts
...So very often I have come across
Bewildered hedgehogs running at a loss
On which direction best to wend their way
Through the dense traffic, much to their dismay.
Or heard the tweeting of a bab......
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Categories:
sprawled, feelings,
Form:
Rhyme
Ladies Nite At Clyde's Bar
...News flash
Huge bash
Big fight
Last night
Clyde's Bar
Bizarre
War zone
Chairs thrown
Snouts poked
Gals choked
Eyes blacked
Ribs cracked
Hair snatched
Backs scratched
Throa......
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Categories:
sprawled, conflict, humorous,
Form:
Footle
The Life of the Party
...Rising
sprawled
amid the carcasses
of demons quelled
strewn
like soldiers slain
spent munitions
drained of all their fire
their bloodshed pooled
puddles
of watered down......
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Categories:
sprawled, addiction, drink,
Form:
Free verse
In Lotus Bliss
...
Synthetic is the world we’re living in.
Plastic’s life seems timeless; it can’t replace
nature’s portraits: skies that leave us breathless,
bright swirling leaves, and ru......
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Categories:
sprawled, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Inspector Tweede
...There was no finer detective than Inspector Thaddeus Tweede of Scotland Yard!
He was most astute in solving crimes and could quickly detect a fake canard!
He joined the force as a 'bobby' working h......
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Categories:
sprawled, funny, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Santa's Special Delivery: a Collab
...Brutal was the biting wind,
sweeping brown locks of a tiny urchin
side to side, often hiding her eyes.
Oversized slippers she had donned
were lost in deep snow drifts.
She plodded forth bare......
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Categories:
sprawled, granddaughter, grandfather, love,
Form:
Prose