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Best Escarpments Poems

Below are the all-time best Escarpments poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of escarpments poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Pixie Dragons
I thought the landscape burst in sudden flame
with embers wild cavorting in the glare
of dawning sun, but boundless sparks became
a throng of monarchs flitting through...

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Categories: escarpments, butterfly, fantasy, nature,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Come To Me
Stretched out on wing of weariness,
The total collapse of the flesh.
Arms and legs, limp and pitiless.
The world’s escarpments hurt..enmesh.

Come to me, says the one buried…
Who...

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Categories: escarpments, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Continental Drift
These green and isolate continents,
set apart by oceans slick as glass,
post signs on high escarpments
to warn ships, sailors -- and loves that pass --
of seeming...

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Categories: escarpments, allegory, introspection, life, lost
Form: Rhyme
Whispers of An African River - Mana Pools National Park
Ripples of blue and silver dance
impala males jump and prance
In a land where imagination roams to and fro
and the waters of old eb and flows

Dust...

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© Tim Marks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: escarpments, adventure, animals, nature, travel,
Form: Blank verse
Fred's Desk
Seven Post-its,
a constellation not unlike the Big Dipper
guide travelers through a deskscape
of escarpments and promontories.

Out beyond the half eaten sandwich
dotting the horizon
are The Spires of...

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Categories: escarpments, funny
Form: Free verse



Living With Mountains ... Waterlight
With first light mountains begin to fill
the pool where its water´s been quiet all night,
and now where swimming´s climbing through water,
climbing the shining escarpments, over...

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Categories: escarpments, life, nature, mountains,
Form: Classicism
Northern Territory
Stark barren red island
Rising out of sea like sand
Changing colours reflecting
The heat and sun parched land
The shadows cast by the Olgas
Beneath a rainbow sky
Land eternal...

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Categories: escarpments, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pinnacle Pines
Bold escarpments scrape the clear sky,
rake and hoe the clouds day bright,
plant your pointed pinnacle high, 
show man the way into the Light.
Reflect upon the...

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Categories: escarpments, faith, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Train Set
It was spread out all over the living room,
clicked along escarpments and apartments, soon
reaching a station, waiting for master's command,
It left, exuberant, at the touch...

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Categories: escarpments, 4th grade, imagery, magic,
Form: Prose
For How Long
For how long must the world sufferer fallacious arguments,
that war wins the right to rule, scarlet, the stains of blood,
as leaders eviscerate their people, internal...

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Categories: escarpments, betrayal, innocence, nature, war,
Form: Free verse
Lady's Mountain
You can see the hills from afar
Standing out on a large plateau
On grassland plains are mountains
Which never lie still but tremor
But the mountains are animate
and...

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Categories: escarpments, allegory, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worn Away Walls
I live in rooms
housed in the interior,
some just small
cells cut into bone,
spaces barely big enough
to fit a soul. 

Others offer more
with sweeping views
of oceans, mountains,...

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Categories: escarpments, imagination, seasons, time,
Form: Free verse
I Want To Climb This Mountain Top
I want to climb this mountain top
but the peak is covered with clouds
I can see only the grey things flowing
escarpments are very steep and sharp
whenever...

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Categories: escarpments, desire, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Road To Mountain Top
That road to the mountain top
slippery and wet it is not as you go
guides need not pull you up and up
someone is at the bottom...

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Categories: escarpments, inspirational, success,
Form: Free verse

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