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Basalt Poems - Poems about Basalt

How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo 19
...She snaps like a brine tendon, spilling embryo chords across the basalt shelf. Tongues of nacre split her sides, each vertebra strung with gravid silence. Kelp-blind, she threads the continenta......

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Categories: basalt, allegory, america, angel, animal,
Form: Concrete
basalt columns
...volcanic activity liquid magma cools contracts chisels rasps measured patterns settling to hexagonal colonnade morphed entablature unique marvel unsigned sculpture......

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Categories: basalt, art,
Form: Other



Premium Member Daylight of Darkness
...Stepping over the threshold Locating the floor buttons I press the 3rd floor ~ my brain images still flashing ~ Disfigured long flames curl around Cherished memories- Dry spruce branches ......

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Categories: basalt, loss,
Form: Narrative
Alidiumakalli
...A 55 gallon barrel Full of pulverized Oyster shells Mixed with wood ash And sawdust And porklard 55 gallons of Pulverized oyster Shells.mixed With basalt. Alkalinity Alkalinity Mind t......

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Categories: basalt, environment, future, ozymandias,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Tiger Davis Queensland Ringer
...There was a Ringer in the Basalt, Tiger Davis was his name As an acrobatic stockman, he was gifted with some fame On the station quite a hero, but a maniac in town He didn't win too many, but a fi......

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Categories: basalt, career,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone below a great fish Maui snared, and his brothers half-crazed behaving leapt and gouged in frenzy craving. From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga (departing p......

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Categories: basalt, home,
Form: Rhyme
Skimming Stones
...Looking down I can see so many different possibilities wondering which I shall pick and with it then what I shall see smooth pink stone with pits of white will it fit in my fingers just rig......

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Categories: basalt, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hunters and Gatherers
...Pines dressed in pearl hues- bleached cotton sky. Plumes carve night shades into taint of crushed bones. Stone basalt tools grind glacier till into pallid skin colored clay, shaped into or......

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Categories: basalt, allusion, animal, bird, creation,
Form: Haiku
Cosmos
...https://allpoetry.com/poem/14732450-Cosmos-by-Chrisbreva1?c=1166602438 Adding numbers on fire Stars burning in the night Lightning chiseling basalt stones Statues speaking to fight the tides T......

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Categories: basalt, nature,
Form: Free verse
Chaotic Silence
...Inspire me.... Even as I attempt this Iambic nonsense How can silence, Emanate from chaos: It's direct opposite? A pure contradiction of concept... Crashing, cascading....... In a m......

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Categories: basalt, art, confusion, hilarious, identity,
Form: Blank verse
Basin Plugs In a Bap
...Power points of dimensional spinning graphs are largely placed in cement viewfinders in aerated office space with dome foam chairs. Dome foam chairs are the salt of seats and seating is considered im......

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Categories: basalt, animal,
Form: I do not know?
Kindly Inclining
...(In the 17th century, when thinkers were first getting to grips with gravity, they named it "kindly inclining".) Seeds adrift on water coalesce: fueled by affinity, they form a community. ......

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Categories: basalt, science,
Form: Rhyme
Tides
...TIDE IS OUT The iodine of the seaweed smells And the rattle of empty seashells Trouble not the whale’s sleep While crabs scuttle to the deep TIDE IS IN Shriveled seaweed in basalt crev......

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Categories: basalt, sea,
Form: Verse
Sagebrush Buttercup- Haiku
...buttercup of gold in cracks of basalt and sage the yellow dress shines......

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Categories: basalt, flower, spring,
Form: Haiku
Lost At Sea
...Out at sea on the flimsy raft My Zorro mask and Tarzan pants can't help Used only to wipe my brow under the punishing sun I lost them too after a while by a crashing wave What could be worse than......

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Categories: basalt, adventure, conflict, memory, nature,
Form: Free verse

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