Best Widening Poems
Below are the all-time best Widening poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of widening poems written by PoetrySoup members
HereafterLiving 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
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 ForsakingFaraway, 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 ValleysAnd 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 BeachWhen 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 SongIt 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 HouseWe 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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Categories:
widening, childhood, home, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
And She SmilesSomewhere 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
The Gods of WindsA 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
Deep Beneath the OceanThe 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
Death of a Beloved FriendDeath 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 MagicDecember 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)
Anglo-Norman Arisingthe 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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Categories:
widening, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
widening, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Tribute To Justin a BordnerOf 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