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Best Fault Line Poems

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Premium Member The Fault Line
The fault line streamed from the Nazi state,
The Jewish Shoah, Holocaustic fate.
Mongolia, Croatia, and Belarus,
Humanity had no excuse.

Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan, 
The full scope...

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Categories: fault line, death, future, grief, history,
Form: Rhyme



The Fault Line
You are my purple dream
I am your yellow window
In between yet a fault line
Taking toll yours and mine
Both indeed feel sorry

I am the enigmatic dusk
You...

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Categories: fault line, dream, flower, green, image,
Form: Free verse
The Fault Line
Lying is just a game like dice roll.
Never dealing with personal shame,
fingers crossed, the issues I control;
lying was just a game.

Always looking for who I...

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Categories: fault line, 11th grade, addiction, depression,
Form: Roundel
Fault Line
Fault Line(d)

Sixth sense in fourth die-mention.
Languished love fractal.
Heart left in cosmic cleavage....

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Categories: fault line, absence, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Fault Line
The Fault Line

My son sent me a message from the Grand Canyon and a boyo he is
        ...

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Categories: fault line, humanity, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



The Fault Line
"We will work things out!" he assured her.
She responded with a light smile.
It was a phrase she got used to, like a nun
repeating "Hail Mary"...

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Categories: fault line, conflict, heartbreak, imagery, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Kefalonia
On the twelfth of August in nineteen fifty three
Tectonic plates moved in the Ionian sea
A massive earthquake bringing destruction and death 
Caused kefalonia to draw...

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Categories: fault line, holiday, mountains, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Hand In Time
I view my hand. I see an ancient land.
A melanomic crater, deep in the desert,
speaks of greedy sun-soaked days.
Wanton then. Gone now.
Sparse wispy palm trees...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fault line, age, memory,
Form: Free verse
Falling In Love With a Writer Is a Faulty Design
Falling in Love with a Writer is a Faulty Design
We see things that other females
don’t pay a tuppence to.
Like a half-burned cigarette tail,
Your osculation of...

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Categories: fault line, beautiful, beauty, love, love
Form: Ballade
Warning Whale
Zone A is a flightless bee turning a corner on a wheel. A glowing wheel. Wow such atomic prowess of stripes. But entering under the...

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Categories: fault line, age, america,
Form: I do not know?
Natural Disaster
Natural Disaster

You have the compassion of a blizzard and the patience of an avalanche
Your derision trickles like a monsoon.
You drown me in disdain.
Flooded by your...

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Categories: fault line, depression, divorce, goodbye, judgement,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Perennial Zen Garden
I notice Life unfolding each embryo of Time
sewing Earth's naturally revolving liturgy,
Eco-Rites of Passage
through TransMillennial Time's fertile transition field,
SuperEco Earthly universe our Garden-Commons home,
shared cooperative...

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Categories: fault line, earth, nature, philosophy, science,
Form: Free verse
Panther Across the Sky
There was a fire in the sky,
The day Tecumseh fell.
No white man could deny,
They would know his cursed spell.

There was thunder in the spirit realm,
That...

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Categories: fault line, anger, culture, history, magic,
Form: I do not know?
Fault Lines - Four Lives
I have a name
I toil at two jobs for my future
I hope one day to be a healer

I have a name
Should I marry him? Will...

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Categories: fault line, death, humanity, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Big Season
All the curtains fall
Like one big season.
What a calamity of triumphs, as
You climb down the path.
The fault-line rested in the eyes,
Curled against the pupil.
The singe...

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Categories: fault line, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs