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Best Earthbound Poems

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Premium Member Part 2 - Earthbound Angels Made of Stone - An Epic
Those evil thorns of bitterness
That couldn't bear to see
This child so loved and so adored
By their father
Captain Lee

Until one day in early May
When she went...

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Categories: earthbound, abuse, angel, baby, black
Form: Epic



Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: earthbound, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oceana
Oceana

Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed 
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...

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Categories: earthbound, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight
You gave me wings 
    to experience the 
         freedom of flight 
 ...

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Categories: earthbound, beauty, death, flying, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earth Glow
He’s a creature small and lowly.
See him move along so slowly -
an earthworm.

He has no fins that he might swim,
nor wings that wind might carry...

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Categories: earthbound, insect,
Form: Rhyme



Truths Unspoken
Born of glaciers, rivers flow,
turquoise ice and untouched snow,
deep green valleys far below,
ancient stands of hardwoods grow.

Icy rivers running deep,
through the mountain's midnight sleep,
darkened waters...

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Categories: earthbound, allegory, imagination, nature, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Insufficient Love Can Be
When love fills your breath and the air
the feel is strong and you can dare
Love, you tend to glamorise
and in words you aphorise
Dreams of princesses...

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Categories: earthbound, black love, crush, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Birth of a Swan
Out 
of the darkness

star-lanterns’ beam finds an awakening dream - 
a strewn snowy stream 
gracing the depths of the black swan night


Earthbound

from the realm of...

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Categories: earthbound, birth, december, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: earthbound, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Shooting Stars
A spectacular show enlightens heavens above
In ephemeral musings of burning meteoroids
Mimicking likeness of falling ornamental stars--
Beaming streaks of rainbow-colors earthbound,

When earth crosses trajectory of comet's...

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Categories: earthbound, sky, space, star, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow 

                   ...

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Categories: earthbound, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Gold Leaf
The last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
summer is just a memory now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
our summer days came to an end.

We...

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Categories: earthbound, absence, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: earthbound, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Angelica
Angelica

curiously peering over a cloud
   Angelica stepped a bit too far
      wings fluttered and disappeared
   ...

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Categories: earthbound, faith, hope, naturewater, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the essence of soft shadows -
I siphon the twilight ether
    like sweet smoke from apple wood
      I draw its magic IN, (as...

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Categories: earthbound, analogy, appreciation, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things