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


Premium Member The Poet Who Never Was
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...

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Categories: stretched, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Forgive My Silence
Dear December, 
Forgive my silence, 
I’m still bleeding from 
         the lacerations,
I still hear the echoes 
from...

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Categories: stretched, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emily Dickinson
Crowned poet,
posthumous Queen 
of the private world, 
you explored
every subtlety of the soul
and mapped the wonder
of existence 
to its last drawn breath.

What price did you...

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Categories: stretched, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: stretched, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
                             ...

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Categories: stretched, introspection,
Form: Free verse



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: stretched, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Ocean
I stand on the edge of your ocean, ready to dive in
Wanting to discover the depths of you
I have looked at the surface of you
Beautiful...

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Categories: stretched, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternal Recurrence
ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand...

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Categories: stretched, future, life, , atheist,
Form: Epic
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: stretched, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
I Belong To the Lake
 I wander far from the coal-tar smog
and buzzing sounds of the city
to a place where I can smell
fresh-cut hay in a tepid breeze.
I stroll...

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Categories: stretched, beautiful, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Stream and Seasons Past
The old stream doesn’t burble 
like it used to in Spring’s past -
rambunctious in youth  wild it ran
racing the sun and chasing the moon
splashing...

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Categories: stretched, age, appreciation, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mission of the Yellow Songbird
Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to...

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Categories: stretched, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demise of a Newborn Dragonfly
Its delicate wings no longer wet, it stretched well,
And flew up high holding onlookers in its spell.
Round and around it danced over the eerie pond
All...

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Categories: stretched, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: stretched, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: stretched, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs