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Best Wide Open Poems

Below are the all-time best Wide Open poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wide open poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: wide open, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: wide open, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Be One
Speak in my dark night
   Color your quiet words
      without sight

Touch my wide open eyes 
  ...

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Categories: wide open, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Could
if i could,             

                         i'd  wish a magic wand....

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Categories: wide open, giving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spark In Flight
My love, the world is ours,
its reflective sapphire oceans,
its turquoise pine tree forests,
its topaz colored days,
its moonstone lit evenings.
My love, I'm certain it's us.

The amethyst...

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Categories: wide open, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: wide open, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: wide open, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sleeping With the Enemy
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

See what you want to see
Don't Look at me!
You are staring you are watching;
Eat what you can't be

Come sleep by my side
The...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wide open, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: wide open, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wide open, adventure, age, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bipolar
I am bipolar,
That’s what they say,
Maybe the mood swings.
Gave me away,
Maybe it was the battle going on;
Much deeper inside,
That caused me to run,
That caused me...

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Categories: wide open, philosophyme, me, time,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Butterfly Kisses
To touch someone’s eyelashes with your own
up close to their face, now isn’t that silly?
I can just hear all the virile men groan. . .
Butterfly...

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Categories: wide open, joy, kiss,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Feeling Blue and Knotted Up

in the fervour of my sweat
sheets drenched
i wake to the toxic bellow of my own voice
in the torment of my own thoughts

in the complexity of...

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Categories: wide open, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woven Moments
Silent journey
I ride with you O Mother Earth
On the wings of time and space
I feel you cradle me in your arms
Lifting me high above you
To...

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Categories: wide open, beauty, celebration, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Muse In Freedom
I walked through the desert looking for my muse, on barren land so dry
Sand stinging in the wind, across the cliffs, beneath the sky

I walked...

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Categories: wide open, freedom, journey, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things