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Best Stretch Poems

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


Premium Member Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet
Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: stretch, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: stretch, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: stretch, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wave and Shore
I am a wave.
From far I come to you
Swimming with desire.
In wild curls I come,
Riding with music,
Travelling on sunbeams.

Within my hidden folds,
I carry the thoughts...

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Categories: stretch, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: stretch, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Starry, Starry Night
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT

I often look up towards the sky at night,
And wonder who or what is there,
I shout out loud, if you see or hear...

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Categories: stretch, night, stars, universe,
Form: Free verse
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: stretch, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Those Words
I speak my thoughts with gentleness
The things I need to say with care
Thoughts held in my hands, gone through my fingers,
balanced on my fingertips...
... sent...

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Categories: stretch, inspirational, metaphor, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Footprints
Frothy waves stretch to kiss toes
Hikers plodding sandy coasts
Leaving imprints on the shore

Who journeyed here, perhaps this morn
As the orange orb created dawn
Summoning sun worshipers

Footprints...

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Categories: stretch, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nana's Hands
Through the years they worked their spells
     From drawers and cupboards, taking things
       That through...

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Categories: stretch, appreciation, food, grandchild, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: stretch, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: stretch, courage,
Form: Free verse
Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stretch, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Shoreline
The ocean waves come rolling in
There’s not a soul in sight
With heaving breath they break on shore
And burst in brilliant white.

The sound of wind is...

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Categories: stretch, sea, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: stretch, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs