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Best Stretches Poems

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Premium Member View It From Afar
To appreciate our planet;
begin with its snowcapped mountains,
where sunbeams morph crystals of ice
into gems of glistening light.

Witness white clouds traverse the skies
floating on a vista...

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Categories: stretches, beautiful, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: stretches, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet's Adoration of Nature
As dusk's misty tones awake from silence,
darkness fades, as birds gather to rejoice.
A beautiful reminder of patience,
their sweet melodies give nature her voice.

Darkness fades, as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stretches, analogy, nature, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...

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Categories: stretches, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calm
Calm is the silt beneath the waves
The measured heartbeat of the brave
It is the fragile petal born
From gardens of pernicious thorns
A velvety cadence under
The jagged...

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Categories: stretches, care, introspection, nature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member My Eternal Ocean
My sails are trimmed,  prepared for our adventure, 
I have gazed longingly at the surface of you
Beautiful beyond my comprehension 
Your rhythmic calmness relaxes...

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Categories: stretches, emotions, ocean,
Form: Personification
Broken Wings
As the sun arose in the eastern skies 
a fairy princess sits rubbing her eyes.
Yawning she glimpses her magical isle 
and her tiny lips, curl...

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Categories: stretches, beautiful, fairy, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member An Ebony Tether
A sanguine sun tinges the edge of Earth
as darkness swiftly spreads over the ground.
And Sol stretches shadows, giving them girth
by turning the last lingering light...

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Categories: stretches, beautiful, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Oneness
Oneness
                   Authored by Chuck Keys

It had no...

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Categories: stretches, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Early Morn On the Old Farm
Early Morn On The Old Farm

tomcat cat fast asleep
new house painted darkest of greens
old sun drenched, low-weeping willow
young black dog awakens
eager dawn, stretches its new...

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Categories: stretches, art, cat, color, dog,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Never Reached Home
They are walking! Walking, walking, walking! 

Long stretches of walk - hundreds of miles of impossible uncertainty,
in blazing sun, in sweltering, muggy, heat - running away...

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Categories: stretches, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Turmoil
It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my...

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Categories: stretches, emotions, fate, feelings, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member - Take My Hand -
It is through joy future should be measured
   Love's temple will be built as a warm nest
   He stretches out his...

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Categories: stretches, romance, together,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Fairy's Fantasy
Somewhere deep in these enchanted woods
a fairy is perched upon a delicate daisy
she yawns and stretches her transparent wings
as all around her in the dim...

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Categories: stretches, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Notes On a Wrist
"Notes on a Wrist" 

the pulse felt
under nibs
of fingertips
translates a life

the semicolan
stretches like 
the devil
hungers 

it can 
wait a long time
eternally feeding you
drip by drip

ever...

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Categories: stretches, journey, muse,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things