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
Pretty Shoes and Cracked FeetOnce 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
This Spring the Poppies BloomedA 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
Winter SonataIn 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
Wave and ShoreI 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
Categories:
stretch, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Starry, Starry NightSTARRY, 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- EditionWell 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
Those WordsI 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
FootprintsFrothy 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
Nana's HandsThrough 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 GoWhere 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
Titanium QuillI 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
WindowpanesAn 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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Categories:
stretch, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form:
Quatrain
ShorelineThe 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
Just a Tree - a RequiemSomeone 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