Best Stretched Poems
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
The Poet Who Never WasI 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
Forgive My SilenceDear 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
Emily DickinsonCrowned 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
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
Categories:
stretched, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
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:
stretched, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Your OceanI 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
Eternal RecurrenceETERNAL 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
IronbarHe 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
The Old Stream and Seasons PastThe 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
Mission of the Yellow SongbirdMission 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
The Demise of a Newborn DragonflyIts 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
Memento of MotherhoodWhen silver waves of crystalline crescent
emanate rhapsodies glazed in
Jupiter light.. reflections
...
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Categories:
stretched, emotions, memory,
Form:
Free verse
I wish I hadOnce 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