Best Spread Eagle Poems
Inner Cosmos
...Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens
I have been calling you
Calling you back into my consciousness
My heart
My soul......
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Categories:
spread eagle, beauty, blessing, celebration, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Victim Or Predator
...He had watched her for two years
patiently waiting for her to grow up.
He knew all her movements, what
made her laugh, all of her moods.
Soon now it would be time, their time
together. She wou......
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Categories:
spread eagle, abuse, child abuse, death,
Form:
Epic
Should I Not Be Found Alive
...Sty all your bodied waters
And libelous pretensions.
Hang leather headed juries
Beside some tethered eddies.
Drown me down
In new baptismal rivers.
Spread eagle me upon
Some granite black ou......
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Categories:
spread eagle, assonance, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
The Apple
...I lay spread-eagle in a field orchard;
Surrounded on four sides by long-grown, green grass
On a dry, October's noon. Nonchalant.
I watched a small squirrel climb a tree, close;
The branches sha......
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Categories:
spread eagle, absence, allegory, analogy, depression,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Shady Sadie
...Just a saggy-sad dumbfounded Basset Hound
Got claimed at the doggone-it lost puppy pound
Just hangin' out now and nosing around
Waiting for my supper to get back from town
Hooray! A dog's life for an......
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Categories:
spread eagle, pets, life, life,
Form:
Monorhyme
Staying Awhile
...Bought at an antiques store for a song:
unframed print #225 of 750, signed by the artist
Number III of the family name, all painters,
(presumably) Those forbears hard to discard--
"Stay Awhile" i......
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Categories:
spread eagle, imagination,
Form:
Blank verse
Pom Pom Mountain
...We drank cheap beer in a rusted out shed.
Buzzing before our 8:00AM English class.
Trying to be cool- to fit with the "Ins."
Instead, were becoming the wobbling outcasts.
Spinning further out fro......
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Categories:
spread eagle, cute, pain, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Skating For Gold
...Acing awesome atomic axel jumps
Baffling backflips and butterfly jumps
Completing camel spins and cross strokes
Dance jumps, dance lifts and death spirals
Eclipsing extensions and edge jumping
F......
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Categories:
spread eagle, devotion, inspirational, motivation, passion,
Form:
ABC
I Can Be That Child Again
...
oh, how I loved my mother's garden
where I would run and play all day
and in the nearby forest explore with father.
often, I would lay spread-eagle on the grass
and sometimes I wo......
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Categories:
spread eagle, childhood, memory,
Form:
Verse
Street Person
...I was speeding down the e-way in my Chevy pick-up truck,
When I spied a person laying there and I feared that she’d been struck.
Her body was splayed spread eagle out in the middle of the road,
......
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Categories:
spread eagle, social, sympathy,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
spread eagle, adventure, caregiving, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Couplet
Uncle Cleo
...His real name was Cliff...
But we called him
Cleo Van Hoppenburg,
Better known as "Uncle Cleo",
To all who did love him...
Though not quite normal of mind,
He was the center of attention,
You ......
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Categories:
spread eagle, adventure, angst, confusion, family,
Form:
Bio
Too Silly For Words
...I wanted to age graciously,
Serene, ladylike and wise,
But I get confused and muddled
And I've come to realise
Things happen to me,
That takes me by surprise
Everything unravels before
My fa......
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Categories:
spread eagle, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cold Dark Night
...Abandoned soul lost in a tempestuous storm
Cascading raindrops stream down the window pane
Oblivious is she to her own mournful wailing
Leeches line up to lay claim on their investment
Darkness f......
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Categories:
spread eagle, loss, lost love, sad,
Form:
Acrostic
When Pugs Cry
...Dig if you will a hole
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The dirt on your nose tickles me
Can you help me
Can you dig a hole
Dream if you can a backyard
A field of yellow in bloom
Pugs strike c......
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Categories:
spread eagle, animals, funny, people, song-me,
Form:
Lyric