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Best Widest Poems

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


Premium Member American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows and Howling Wolf
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf

Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...

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Categories: widest, art, conflict, death, history,
Form: Verse



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: widest, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Free Gift After the Rain
Lo! A spectrum of colors
In the misty cerulean sky
God’s benevolent gift graciously bestowed
After a light drizzle

A rainbow- nature’s lovely poem
Written on the widest canvas
An arch...

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Categories: widest, color, heaven, joy, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ceaseless Constellation
sometimes I sing 
antique anthems,
of the nights 
I was confined 
  within a bottle
of diamond tears,  
wept woefully
   from the widest...

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Categories: widest, deep,
Form: Free verse
Owlology 101
This is a poem I wrote last year for my grand children....one loves bird...future ornithologist, maybe?

Owls belong to one of two different families or classes,
Even...

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Categories: widest, bird, education, children, kids,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tree Which Offered Shade
those powerful hands, embodying strength, offering a refuge, 
          the determined voice which carried assurance to...

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Categories: widest, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spinning Top - Winged Vehicle
Hear ye, hear ye: Listen to my timeless presentation
If you'd like to conquer anger, irritation, or vexation.

My name is Emerson, Ralph Waldo if you please,
I...

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Categories: widest, anger, flying, magic, moving
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member And With Merriest Spirit
Dream up another Christmas:
with snowflakes softly falling as tiny fragments of a comet,
that have traveled a millennia of light years,
to reach your cold hands awaiting...

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Categories: widest, faith, father, holiday, inspirationalstar,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member True Love Waits
The past,  a memory covered in fog
As shadows hold court though they come and go
A silent movie without dialogue
A dark play with tears is...

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Categories: widest, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Tribute To Linda
Not 
Long 
I 
Know 
this 
'lady' 
This 
lady 
names 
LINDA 
On 
this 
amiable 
platform
Calls 
POETRYSOUP
Not 
Long 
I 
started 
to 
write
On 
this 
platform
And 
not 
long 
I...

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Categories: widest, caregiving, tribute, work, write,
Form: Free verse
Contempt Has a Name
I stand naked wrapped only in the truth
you vile, loathsome reptile.
My contempt of you is limitless
as I have been force-fed your hypocrisy.
Your postulations are lost...

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Categories: widest, black african american, lost
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Lyre Was His Disguise
Nero was a cruel, unfair emperor playing 
the lyre as his disguise to conceal his consuming guilt;
and he caused destruction without feeling
an ounce of pity...

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Categories: widest, confusion, death, loss, music,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Boa
Like a boa constrictor
the intimations of mortality
remind me every day
not to take a backwards breath,
to keep my lungs filled
to the deepest point,
be open to the...

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Categories: widest, allegory
Form: Free verse
The All-Time Greatest Great Britain
This small island civilization,
its empire was the largest creation,
with the widest trade connection,
there are mixed views of our colonization.

Many modern countries exist because of the...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: widest, england, freedom, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
  (A Native American Food Source)

Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,

Nature
sprinkles its...

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Categories: widest, creation, history, humanity, native
Form: Verse

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