Best Stretch Poems

A foot of water
Barely blurs them
The pinkish bruises
Spanned like hands
Across my hips

I press my fingers to them
Try to align them with the crooked broken lines
That tear across my body

They are violet roads
On a map that is me
Starting pale at the backs of my knees
Stretch to...

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Morning draws the air's curtain open
wandering around viscous spaces
like an August goddess caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,

wider than maple alleys quietly adorning
the tiara of late Indian summer as birds, 
cloudline and sea shells listen to 
a timbre of a pulsing sun....

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His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in the trenches with his armament.

The congregants in the old wooden church
join in juxtaposition - the shadowed armies call
to the almighty...

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Create your goals
Write down some big ones that will stretch you
It pays to have goals that require you to grow to achieve them
It’s a good thing to have some goals that make you a little uncomfortable. Why?

The ultimate goal
In addition to achieving your material goals
Is...

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There’s a time-honoured stretch of a river
that’s a cog in the natural wheel
flowing longer than mans’…
time upon earth
and home for the blackfish and eel.

They say that the time of the crayfish
goes back to the dinosaurs’ day 
and rocks that are fighting…
the endless flow
ever slowly, have...

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With this woman, I want to be chummy,
even if she has a larger than average tummy.
She is quite a beauty before my eyes.
All of her charms are in extra-large size.
I love those stretch marks on her hips and thighs.
Taking me in her arms is what...

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My wife joined yoga to stretch out her core;
Though extreme moves sometimes made her holler.
Yet when they raised fees, it hurt a lot more,
So she now has to stretch out a dollar.

Downward Dog used to give satisfaction,
But her teacher has tightened the collar.
When before, body...

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diminished hexaverse using words rather than syllables

Moon dust is said to cause
woe for earthling’s noses and lungs.
Powdery particles eat through stainless steel,
stick like glue and congest breathing.
I mention in passing another threat -
moon dust jams expensive electronic equipment.

Moon dust floats down unknowingly
to earth carrying deep...

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A Limerick Stretch - A Limersix

I have masterminded a Limersix
Not bad for an ageing geriatric 
That's writing six lines
In poetry rhyme
And all in good time
You have crafted something simply sublime.

16th May 2021

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A Limersix is made up of 6 lines…
Lines 1, 2 and 6 have 7...

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Here they are standing aloof on the backside of town
Here they are sitting on the bare, stricken ground
with strange smells filtering all around.

Smells that fill the atmosphere with an awful stench.
disgusting smells, horrible smells coalesce with
burning incense and perfume to conceal the terrible odor.

Here they...

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hope, longing, passion

Tuned Finger Stretch HAIKU ©

Fingers ply for tunes
Opportunities calling
Down the long-stretched road!

Didee...

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He joins the league of the oldest continuous civilization
and keeps three out of every five of the globe’s underground crude.
Typified by a way of life resting on three luxurious pillows
and the system of most of its homes void of tables and chairs.

But a little cruel,...

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I finally feel relaxed 
It has been a long time coming
I finally get to the point that I can't take it no more 
Don't want to deal with it any more
Take it or leave it - no more
That was my attitude
And I found that God...

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James E. Tate 

The little man answered the doorbell,
But saw no one there. 
Seeing a snail on his porch, 
He pitched it in the air.

Three weeks later he answered the bell,
And heard a wee wee shout.
The snail was back on his porch,
Saying, “What was that...

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I believe
This isn't the world's end
As the sun rises and sets,sets and rises
It reborns everyday
As the sea rises and falls,falls and rises
It remains every minute
As the leaf falls to give way to a new leaf
And the new leaf falls again to give way to another
It...

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