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Best Expedition Poems

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Howard Carter's Expedition Revised Edition
I am here on an archaeological quest,
to satisfy many a curious mind's request
for knowledge on antiques and artifacts
of Egypt's long extinct historical facts,
in treasured sands...

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Categories: expedition, history,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Expedition
Beyond ego's orbit, we set our sights, 
On an expedition where compassion ignites. 
Away from selfish dreams, we'll choose to see, 
The world's shared sorrows,...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expedition, education, future, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Expedition






Each sweet sunrise, is but another 
                  ...

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Categories: expedition, encouraging, joy, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Expedition
"Life is an expedition to unknown territories. Adverse winds may veer round and the calm may be disrupted any time, but don't lose hope and...

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Categories: expedition, confusion, fear, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unmasking the Script
In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Categories: expedition, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Time and Space
Time and space in deadlock
Time unlike the progression of a clock
Time dependent on interpretation
A linear cessation
Space dependent on mass
Triangulation through impasse
Portals of acquisition
An inner self...

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Categories: expedition, space, time,
Form: Rhyme
Final Thought
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          I hear the thunder of the foot soldiers
       ...

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Categories: expedition, death,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of My Sisters
With nimble imploring    
 
Of a tale found quite pretentious,
 
I found:
 
My sisters, my comrades,
 
Obtained skills some found offensive.
 
They...

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Categories: expedition, devotion, faith, history, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Sir Ernest Shackleton
Born in Ireland in eighteen seventy four
He was a remarkably brave explorer
Three times to Antartica he did go
To that barren wilderness of ice and snow.

Once...

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Categories: expedition, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Twilight
I.
Twilight,
The evening spreads itself across the sky
Like a canvas,
Splashed with hues of frantic yellow, somber blue,
And hectic red,
Captured in a shapeless frame
And hung upon the...

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Categories: expedition, age, death, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Why Is It
12/13/20
"Why Is It?"


Times of crisis
The cause of our own destruction, and being lifeless
Is more complex than science
Sometimes it involves an appliance
Sometimes it's considered sacrifices
Often from...

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Categories: expedition, passion, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Panes of Glass
Panes of glass in my soul divide me from my past
Portals that serve as the windows into my future
Yet clearly distort the visions of my...

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Categories: expedition, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lewis and Clark
They were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
Her name was Sacagawea.
On an expedition they did embark
Finding the passage to the sea.

Down the Missouri they traveled, 
Then...

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Categories: expedition, adventure, america, boat, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacagawea
Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens. 
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she...

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Categories: expedition, adventure, celebrity, history, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sir Henry Morgan

Come all, sail along with me!
Welcome aboard to a Pirate's Ship of World History
I’ll be your story teller, to you I will relay
All about the...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expedition, courage, dedication, hero,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Reflection on the Important Things