Best Crater Poems

Had a thought a moment ago, just before I broke your aura'd wing, 
trapped here, forever, within Audouin's vast crater alone and pining. 
Starved for ages, a new gnawing hunger'd vision looked to bring., 
had we met, you and I, before the javelin started skyward climbing? 

Though skin is rough and jagged as scoria litter...

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On specific night, the moon shows part a story
With sliced light's slant on key rock,
By at odd interests' solarity—

The cold rock fires back
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals;
From behind, dark side's show, light lack.

Haunted angles
Sun spangled
Rankled

On specific night, the moon shows part a story
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals,
Rankled.
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Crater Lake

Looking down high above in sunny skies
A view through aircraft window down below...
A sublime scene of beauty cast in eyes
Of a crater lake, crowned by pristine snow.
The island in its center brought such cheer,
A picture postcard flocked with evergreens,
With a sense of serenity so near
In glory of this lake and what she means.
The deep...

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God’s country, a volcano who turned herself into a lovely lake 
                                    of the prettiest color.
    ...

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The hands of God cradle
liquid sapphire splendor 
glistening peaks surround
like points on a royal crown. 

Behold the glory of the
serene, majestic lake
in whose mirrored reflection 
one might see the face of God. 





Written on 1/18/2019...

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“I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner...

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crater lake always with snow
draws a long cerulean breath
inhaling wizard island
blows another blue...

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Caldera
formed when Mount Mazima
erupted thousands of years ago.

Lake water's warmed by remains of a volcano;
Oregon’s state park lures tourists to take a swim.

Mount Mazima may erupt again
beneath the surface of
Crater Lake.




* “The water is heated by hot rock beneath the fractured caldera floor. 
Scientists are not certain whether any magma still remains underground
but it is...

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Who has never seen the hole inside the hole
On that moon parked there in the courtyard,
In the crater within the crater,
The cold silver light that Clavius generates?

We the lost mass
Obese owners of apartments with no view,
Blind travelers beneath the stars,
impatient patients,
ignorant of galaxies and infinity.

(Clavius is one of the largest crater formations on the Moon....

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how much can endure
when one is so unsure,
if refrain is coming or going 
if time is right side up 
or forthright down,
unhappiness begets a frown
plays sickly trumpet sounds,
simplicity is a statement  
like bereavement on stale bread,
a stapled diet
wrought fresh of deniability
and tranquility,
act aloof.

paint the sky troubled blue
swing from the trees
of broken branches,
lie and fall,
sweep...

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I round a bend in the trail ...

And gasp, literally ...
The scene before me takes my breath away
And I stop, transfixed by the sheer breadth of the panorama
The shimmering span of Crater Lake ...

Clear, crystalline ...
Pure as the tears of Heaven
Translucent fathoms of water, waiting ...
Glassy, tranquil, yet the depths shroud an inky secret

A brumal...

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Hold me tight, like tonight was our last day.
If I could have imagined everything
Then I could just walk away.
If I could imagine anything,
Then everything would be my darkest dream.

And I, I can't close my eyes
And fall from your skies.
Now out here in space
I wonder what impact I can make.

And now that I've lost everything,
I rise,...

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I wonder…
What catastrophic rock
Could have caused this gigantic hole,
Over two miles around,
And half a mile deep,
Like some giant's awesome soup bowl?

Could it be…
When the earth was born,
God just ran out of clay,
So, he left it there,
Unfinished and bare,
Waiting for a more convenient day?...

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Henry, an extraordinary excavator
Would arrive there sooner rather than later.
Using his big cat,
When shown where it was at,
He would dig you an enormous crater....

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Crater Lake, Oregon
a lake sacred to the indigenous Klamath tribe
she appeared after collapse of Mt. Mazama
doorway portal to the underworld

Crater Lake
where spirit Llao fell in love with a Native American  woman
declared he wanted to marry her
burned surrounding forests when her father, a chief, said no.
Battled with Skell, another spirit who loved the same woman


Crater...

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