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


Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: widespread, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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Categories: widespread, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wish For Acceptance
My greatest wish is for humanity
Treating each other with civility
Regardless of each one’s ethnicity
All men should be treated with dignity
 
For when I hear of...

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Categories: widespread, socialprayer, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...

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Categories: widespread, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Earth Element of Wind
Earth element of wind, elusive to exploring eyes,
a gaseous, gusty ghost, she gyrates- gallops gallantly.
She bashes, bends, and bobs the branches of each bush and...

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Categories: widespread, appreciation, tribute, weather, wind,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member October, When the Leaves Intensify
October, when the leaves intensify -
colored explosions: orange, yellow, red,
breezes to temper summer's heat draw nigh.

There's one last month of days with lightened sky
before our...

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Categories: widespread, baseball, october,
Form: Villanelle
And the Road Begins?
Mornings are dreadful time in life unless waking beside gorgeous woman hopefully 
a not married one  husbans can be such a downer.
And when ya...

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Categories: widespread, friendship, funny, happiness, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tinderbox
Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world aghast in grip...

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Categories: widespread, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Soul Cry
“Soul Cry”



Yeezy you da best
Not ice cold soulless 
You gotta big heart
Wanna be next U.S. Pres'
You now swingin' with da rest
with your delusional pal 
That...

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Categories: widespread, abuse, america, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dark Side of Canada
I do not have to go far away
 but just look within canada     to see
there is starvation    ...

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Categories: widespread, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Concert
Drumming along on steering wheel
And dashboard, to rhythm and beats
8-track drowning out giddy squeals,
Till butts plopped down in venue seats.

The buzzing crowd was everywhere
All walks...

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Categories: widespread, adventure, music, people, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Black Oak Tree
A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any...

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Categories: widespread, april, creation, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
All We Can Abolish
Horrid hellion hunger that rips apart the soul
Sadly starving siblings where death takes its toll
Crippled children crying a mother lives in hell
While wicked ways of...

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Categories: widespread, abuse, anger, corruption, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Adonis Complex
Born out of incest of father-daughter 
Semite god, hunter and a fair offspring 
Women’s laments and cries to stir and blur
Festivals on me in autumn...

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Categories: widespread, leaving, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Speculation
Environmental ramifications
Will far exceed current tabulations
And surely cause widespread consternation
For resentful future populations
 
No hopes will be pinned on legislation
Look to intergalactic migration
Flight from a...

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Categories: widespread, visionary
Form: Monorhyme

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