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Antipodes Poems - Poems about Antipodes

Premium Member Autumn in The Antipodes
... 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 Member Did 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 Member Mariners
...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 Member Villanelle: 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?
Premium Member Wonder and Despair
...Wonder and Despair, Twin brothers born of our need to know; These the tainted fruits These the light and dark Born of laboring knowledge. Learning's vanities Illuminate the limits. The hard cu......

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Categories: antipodes, introspection, mystery, nature, philosophy,
Form: Choka

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