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Antipodes Poems - Poems about Antipodes

Premium MemberThe Cheese of Euripides

...Tingling of tongue sent Euripides
Questing a tastier kind of cheese.
"I found cheddar magical,"
Said this poet tragical,
"Sailing the southern antipodes.”...
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Categories: antipodes, food, history, humor, poets,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAutumn in The Antipodes

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To the casual eye,
autumn gives no cue 
in the Australian bush.
No last choke of color 
to see off a season,
trees here keep 
their clothes on.

Change is subtle, 
leaves are shed all ye...
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Categories: antipodes, autumn, tree,
Form: Free verse



Moment Suspended In Time

...the universe inside each person, the thousands of facets that are hidden in each gesture, thought, second... so many lives existing concomitantly in one, our theater of joy and horrors could only ...
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Categories: antipodes, life, memory, remember,
Form: Prose

Antipodes

...everything is a grand illusion
and from far away it's strange to see
the way they interact with cutlery
what phases of the moon influence their neuroses
and the rituals of self-destruction
which...
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Categories: antipodes, dream, irony, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Broken Compass

...Is the truth in the east?
or is it in the west?
Could it be in the north?
or the south?
The truth is neither sky nor sea,
neither you nor me
The truth is at the antipodes....
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Categories: antipodes, irony, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDid You Learn Anything

...Did You Learn Anything?

Go ahead.
Put your shoes on.
Walk outside and face the nervous day.
Know that your lungs will not resist you.
Know that your heart will still stir.
Put the key in the ...
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Categories: antipodes, memory,
Form: Free verse

Bass Strait Sealing Rush

...The Bass Strait sealing rush began in eighteen-o-three,
where at least a dozen vessels were wrestling with the sea,
for the China trade was booming, for the want of skins and oils.
This was the fi...
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Categories: antipodes, history,
Form: Lyric

Town Full of Hopes

...An auld Covent 
watches over its town
by shedding  grey  husk all over
wondering to be once more found

on the antipodes - across
bygone graveyard 
not here neither lost
stubbornly lasts
bet...
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Categories: antipodes, history,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberMariners

...Mariners in our wanderlust,
We sail beyond the horizon’s curve.
Fearful, we dare the briny deep
Out of faith in the dreams we serve.

Rough-hewn by years of knots and coils,
Our hands hoist up ...
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Categories: antipodes, adventure, culture, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse

The Swan Song

...Has someone cursed our love
or cast a malevolent spell?
Why do the heavens envy our love
and wish us unwell?
The union of our two worlds--
My realm of the angels 
where celestial lights light 
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Categories: antipodes, lost love,
Form: Free verse

A Tribute To June, Or the Paradox of June

...When Juno christened thirty days as hers,
She chose the sunniest month and named her June;
When roses bloom, and summer, spring transfers
A sunny solstice and a strawberry moon.
Bedecked with pea...
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Categories: antipodes, june,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberVillanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 37

...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 36

All day long we kill to keep the home clean
Insecticides aerosols rat poison
The killer instinct makes us bold and mean

Down by the pond mos...
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Categories: antipodes, metaphor, patriotic, political, violence,
Form: Villanelle

Antipodes

...And there...
unlikely as in our world
cold mountains peaks
are grab by top
towards the foot of vale
where springs are flowing 
from oceans depth
In to the rivers lair

no bird can freely fly...
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Categories: antipodes, myth, nature, philosophy, poems,
Form: Ballad

Mandated By Another's Maxim

...Side stepping love's starfish sun bathing about, time's shores....
While amoeboid parasites these sponges in resilient, take up residence
Atop her capital hill; residuum's resonant evil kismet's, tru...
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Categories: antipodes, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?

Aurora Borealis Her Manifest Destiny

...Listening unto their Fray's How to Save a Life: you stare politely 
Right on through; and you'll begin wonder, why you came ? Where
Did we go wrong I lost a friend, somewhere along in this bitterness...
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Categories: antipodes, art, baby, cancer, ,
Form: I do not know?

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