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Stretched Out Poems - Poems about Stretched Out

Why Your Cities Burn, Part IV
......After a bit her cries died down, everyone could see she was dead, a small head hung between her thighs, mother and son covered in red. He had seen so much callousness, but this he just couldn......

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Categories: stretched out, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member the king is here
...My dog is on his back His legs high in the air His body is stretched out like a ruler His contentment amuses me Nine months ago, he had never had a home Now he is the king of ours......

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Categories: stretched out, dog,
Form: Free verse



Ashen-Cradle
...A haunting past that trails behind, An unnerving shadow that fails to blend. The harrowing voices that curve the bend, Sending your sanity off to the other end. The gleaming red eyes that tend ......

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Categories: stretched out, anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
If they see her dying face, part one, written but never sent series
...There is another girl I know. She loves to people-watch during the time she has to waste, and when she has no time at all. There is a girl that I know who rests her feet on a bench, with her knees tu......

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Categories: stretched out, 10th grade, child, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There were moments when my prayers were lost in the winds
...There were moments when my prayers were lost in the winds, I felt only the turmoil like a troubled sea under a cloudy sky, fears and tears, echoes of deep pains, so deep and lonely, like a boundle......

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Categories: stretched out, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Eternal Pain
... Eternal Pain Raped, beaten and taken from me Body stretched out, hand and knee. Blood on the door, blood on the wall Eyes open wide, but nobody saw. One life, two lives denied, A second sou......

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Categories: stretched out, death, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Driving Down Memory Lane
... I was drivin’ down an old, worn black-top highway, on my way to a funeral. It was mid-Missouri, and late summer made it hotter’n the dickens outside. I was thinkin’ there was only a couple of hou......

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Categories: stretched out, friendship, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Reconciliation
...What is this “me within me”? Mute masquerade? Immortality of a self, A puff of worthless air, Or feelings so pure? Can I bear wings And an angelic creature be To soar away Into the screaming......

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Categories: stretched out, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Avenue of Hope
...I plant a seed by the sea and allow faith and courage to water it for thee I watch it grow with the passing wind until the heaven above move the substance within and the avenue of hope breaks through......

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Categories: stretched out, birth, blessing, change, courage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dusty Box of Memories
...Here I am alone again, well, just me and kitty. It's quite peaceful and quiet and Kitty is comfy all curled up on her cotton quilt. The television is off and being that it's nearly 3:00am there are n......

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Categories: stretched out, cat,
Form: Haibun
1968 My first funeral
... I wonder why everybody felt the need, to express their opinions so openly, about this man who had the misfortune to die. I watched them slowly strolling past the casket, like they were shoppi......

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Categories: stretched out, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Piece Of Art
... There is art in everything It can be beautiful It can be ugly It can be silly Or it can make you say WTF It can be on paper On stretched out canvas Or carved from a large stone But it alway......

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Categories: stretched out, art, creation,
Form: Free verse
the dog of my life
...The dog of my life This is not an evening when one feels jubilant When I look out of the window, I see a few cars going up and down the road till they reach the roundabout and drive back past my ......

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Categories: stretched out, absence, angel, child,
Form: ABC
HOPE BEATS GIVING UP
...I was once told that "THERE IS HOPE BEYOND EVERY STRUGGLE" Sometimes, I doubt those words & I wonder I've been struggling all these years But I couldn't find hope anywhere here Every time I appro......

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Categories: stretched out, hope, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Land Locked
...Stretched out under the snow a dead seagull, wings spread. I must have seen a dead seagull before, but if I did it was not a snow burial, not in Kentucky, not in my backyard. By late afterno......

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Categories: stretched out, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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