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Spread Out Poems - Poems about Spread Out

Bamboo

...Grant me rest under your lissome stems
Let me hide from the raindrops — shiny globules
That drip with tropical hauteur,
Rain that harms the ribs with cold rebukes.
Welcome me within your greenish...
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Categories: spread out, africa, environment, life,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberThe Timeball

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The Timeball
sits atop of a tower
at Point Gellibrand -  a quaint
relic of the past when,
well over a century ago,
ships at anchor in the Bay
would set their chronometers 
as the ball desc...
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Categories: spread out, future, history, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTREES AND ME

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I love nature…everything about her…
her mountains, her flowers, her animals, her oceans…her sky, her seas…
and from the time I was born I’ve had a certain affinity for her trees.

I wonder if t...
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Categories: spread out, tree,
Form: Rhyme

The Wrong Train

...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories: spread out, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse

Oxford Street

...I walked down the alleyways of London
Early one edgy Friday evening.
I am a touring, curious resident, mind you.
The sun was shy and was sinking breathlessly and
With the hushed melody of frazzle...
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Categories: spread out, city, london,
Form: Ode



Premium MemberWhat It's Worth

...We walk this earth
To find out what it's worth

Chasing copper and gold
Just watch a journey unfold

I soak in the shimmering sea
Spread out as if just for me

There are heroes we meet
And ...
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Categories: spread out, courage, hope, how i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBRACELETS WITH AN S

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We went to the Haywood County Pride Day celebration where it was wonderful to see
all the people In Waynesville, North Carolina who turned out to celebrate diversity.

We waved our rainbow flags...
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Categories: spread out, pride,
Form: Rhyme

TREE LOVE

...My love grows like a tree for you. 
Growing endlessly, it spreads across the garden of love. 
It gives us cover from storms, and shade from the sun. 
It is strong for us to hold onto in bad times....
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Categories: spread out, god, i love you,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Inner Voice Told Me

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After a hazardous trip from a far- off district,
With drooping spirits and waning energy,
I alighted at the station to catch the night train,
My heart besieged by memories of a home,...
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Categories: spread out, anxiety, journey, night,
Form: Free verse

Look For A Home For Me

...Look for a home for me that lie beyond the sea
 with grapes that run on vines, apple and peaches that
grow on limb, juicy pear that last  the whole year 
and an orchard  erected on the hill where ...
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Categories: spread out, america, beautiful, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Narrative

Tree of creativity

...It’s there, you really need to see,
your beautiful tree,
of creativity.
With nature you know, 
nothing is perfect.
We all grow in our own crazy direction.
We are tall, strong,
 with deep conne...
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Categories: spread out, beauty, creation, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse

I dreamt myself dreaming myself dreaming myself dreaming--

...I       woke       up

on the mattress placed in our living room. I found a cat in my house—it’s the size of a Shiba, and its fur a vibrant orange, with stripes raven dark. I said to my mother, “Wh...
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Categories: spread out, anxiety, confusion, dream, emotions,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberWHO DO YOU WANT TO BE

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Knowing what you know now about life…
from the knowledge you’ve acquired every time you win…and every time you lose…
If you could, this moment, determine how to live the rest of your years…
whic...
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Categories: spread out, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTHE THING ABOUT A HUG

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The thing about a hug is how it can show up at the most unexpected time…
in the most unexpected place and yet…
when it does…chances are that unexpected hug is one you never will forget.

We sel...
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Categories: spread out, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChicken Splash

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The charcoal clouds melt in the scorched sky,
serenading summer drizzle descends  
with the fascinating flotilla in the arid air.

The spectrum of the setting scarlet sun
sparkles ...
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Categories: spread out, dance, rain,
Form: Free verse

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