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Best Vast Poems

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


Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)

Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...

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Categories: vast, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: vast, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: vast, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A 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: vast, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waterfall of Shadows
I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh...

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Categories: vast, eve,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Only Ever With You
O N L Y   E V E R    W I T H   Y O U

Only ever with you,...

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Categories: vast, inspiration, life, love, relationship,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Maltese Moon
The Maltese Moon,
she draws my eyes
to shapely orb
in starlit sky
she smiles at me
with wanton grace
and spills desire
upon my face
I'm all awash
in milky glow
sacred secrets
Mine to...

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Categories: vast, beautiful, introspection, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: vast, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Interview with the Wind
“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius

“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr. 
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...

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Categories: vast, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Squalling Seagulls Sip Morning Sunshine
Squalling seagulls sip the morning sunshine
Greeting new sun, spanning over vast sea
Wailing upon hills, watching freedom shine
Sprinkling over prairies echoes of glee

Greeting new sun, spanning...

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Categories: vast, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Our Rainbow of Love
My love, do you ever know...

In your moments of hushed silence, 
I am your sound;

You are the rhythm
of the symphonic waves
in the vast sea 
of...

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Categories: vast, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Navigating vast oceans of life, negotiating its lows and highs,
Some blissful of pure joy, some burdened in griefs and sighs,
Riding aspirations eternal, rowing vigor of...

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Categories: vast, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Young Divine Happiness -
She is young and free, and most of her love lies in front of her
As the dawning twilight holds one breathless air under misted whispers...

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Categories: vast, beauty, destiny, dream, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: vast, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Phases
the night as black as a newly broken heart

      increasingly 
         the...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vast, lost love, moon, sad
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs