Get Your Premium Membership

Best Sprawling Poems

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


Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In Another Time
the waning moonlight thinly enveloped 	
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Wolf In Haiku Clothing
I listen to the sighing
of the wind, as I sit
in the cool shade 
of a sprawling carob tree,
wondering if Basho,
in heavenly abode, 
next to Elysian...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Am Life - I Am You
If I were a tree in a garden
In silence I would stand strong
UNIQUE and BEAUTlFUL

My soul would feel blessed
To give life to other living beings
From...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Escaping Humanity
Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member An Autumn Farewell
Going out of his way, the obliging taxi driver drives to the top of the hill.
      A young man gets...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, emotions,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member April Fawn
Longing in lowly light of longer days
by which a summer wilts paternal dreams
and browns the loitered heaves of yellow spring:

the budding void that stamps an...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, depression, father daughter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Day We Met- a Collab With Paul Callus
A lovely breeze blew from the sea
That autumn day was almost done;
Her thick and wavy raven hair 
Was boldly gleaming in the sun. 

She rode...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day We Met : a Collab With Em
A lovely breeze blew from the sea
That autumn day was almost done;
Her thick and wavy raven hair 
Was boldly gleaming in the sun. 

She rode...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Despair Dispelled
Dawn's rays burst through gray clouds
Though evening's bitterness lingers
She struggles to shake free of tear-stained, satin shrouds

Each morning, so much effort just to rise
But lips...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, animals, happiness, naturenight, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Delightful Mountain Ranges
Landscapes exposing nature’s grandeur
mountain ranges inspire great trip.

Cordilleras of welcoming marvels
propel refreshing ascent
amidst pure verdant sights.

Those delight me, the Earth’s firmament
while surveying the pine trees...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Personification
Premium Member My Bed's Just Here For the Cat
Fatcat,
Hairy nuisance
Sprawling over bedsheets
Crowding limited sleepspace with
Blubber....

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, animals, funny, pets
Form: Cinquain
A Beautiful Woman
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN 

Her face was a constellation of perfections 
She was ravishing; beautiful beyond condemnation. 
Her voice was like many water 
Yet, it's coo...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, beautiful, inspirational, success, uplifting,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member I'M Not Nosey But
I've never been one to nosey but
Looking through my net curtains
I just happened to have a pair of binoculars in my hand
I'm a curious kinda...

Read more of this work...
© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sprawling, class, crazy, england, eve,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blue Angel
"I heard an angel speak last night and he said 'write'"   Elizabeth Barrett Browning

T here was a cemetery across from the street where...

Read more of this work...
Categories: sprawling, childhoodangel, angel, blue,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things