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Best Widening Poems

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Premium Member Hereafter
Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Categories: widening, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: widening, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Long Forsaking
Faraway, across a widening 
Expanse of vacant fields,
Dawns slated light is gradually 
Awaking;
And too soon new Morn's stilled 
Indifference 
Determinedly steals
Into the abstractions  of...

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Categories: widening, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Children of the Valleys
And as the hills yonder 
Turned red from sunset rays
As darkness engulfed the valley
And the sweet sounds of birds
Rent the cool evening air

Our cows and...

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Categories: widening, africa, children, poverty,
Form: Free verse
A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: widening, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse



Closet Song
It calls to me,
From the darkness,
It sings,
Ever so sweetly,
A finger beckons,
Bloody and scarred,
I can feel the terror,
Clutching at my heart,
The whispers,
The hinge squeaking,
The door softly...

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Categories: widening, horror,
Form: Free verse
A Crooked House
We lived in a crooked house.
Built on a muddy mound of hope with the corpse of yesterday half buried beneath
Sad eyes and smiley faces. A...

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© Zed Zed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: widening, childhood, home, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
And She Smiles
Somewhere in the distance
the horizon sleeps my canvas,
dawn comes to me in a dream

While the sun’s early rays
caress her,
widening her sable eyes and she smiles…

(before...

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Categories: widening, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Gods of Winds
A warring god of wind storms and lightening,
Rudra, rough looking, well built, braided hair
Golden in color, of firm limbs widening
With streaks of lightening and fearful...

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Categories: widening, god, mythology, wind,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Deep Beneath the Ocean
The azure ocean, home to the embedded enormous incomprehensible riches of mysteries and riddles,
More than the Mars, lies unfathomed, underneath the conundrum of oceanic colossal...

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Categories: widening, deep, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death of a Beloved Friend
Death Of A Beloved Friend

O Friend, when thou hadst uttered thy brief tale
Our hearts grew still as flowers that watch the stars,
Through long windless nights.
...

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Categories: widening, conflict, dark, death of
Form: Rhyme
December Magic
December eve wakes for me. Enamored by
a million stars in a widening sky, it shines down
on a frigid desert floor, and I, in wonder, spy
beauty...

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Categories: widening, beauty,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: widening, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Tender Wound
I stand here by the ocean, heart in hand
          A tender place that you and I...

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Categories: widening, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
A Tribute To Justin a Bordner
Of the many stars I have seen,
Justin, you are by far the most exquisite
I love how you just mold into my heart,
Sifting the words we...

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Categories: widening, appreciation, blessing, joy, love,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs