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Best Fiord Poems

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Land Is a Loom
Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself  spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song...

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Categories: fiord, adventure, environment, nature,
Form: Blank verse



Two Greatest Commandments
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fiord, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight
The Avenue of Gastronomic Delight

Down the broad avenue called Gastronomic Delight
City life gathers when twilight awakens;

In eateries, drive-ins, greasy spoons and taverns – jumpin’ joints...

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Categories: fiord, america, food, international,
Form: Verse
Black Chrismas
Black Christmas.
I was bore while I was young,
My word sound odd but strong,
All match passes with different sooth and charms,
Celebrating the feast of who was...

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Categories: fiord, birthday, christmas,
Form: Sonnet
To Valhalla and Back
To reign in your fire
to bask in your light
must be a pleasure
denied me tonight

  the light in your eyes 
still shows me the way
it...

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Categories: fiord, lost love, nostalgia, me,
Form: Couplet



Cross the Bridge
She is consumed from the fires of her afflictions 
Riddling her mind with chaotic tunes and depictions. 
Following the signs to new inscriptions 
She ventures...

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Categories: fiord, adventure, faith, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Paths To the Foundry
The World is a testing ground to burn out impurity, 
a forge of sorts, 
sorting out infermity. 
A Threshing floor 
of chaff and wheat. 
The...

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Categories: fiord, character,
Form: Rhyme
Black Chrismas
Black Christmas.
I was bore while I was young,
My word sound odd but strong,
All match passes with different sooth and charms,
Celebrating the feast of who was...

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Categories: fiord, bible, birth, celebration,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sitting By the Ocean
The countless flights of noisy seagulls
seem like my days once idled away,
sitting by the ocean appeasing the relentless loneliness of my blues...
beyond that horizon, so...

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Categories: fiord, childhood, friendship, loss, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pallbearer For a Poet
we're honored 
to carry you home
in a simple pine chrysalis
engraved with your verse...
behind the procession
lie the whorls of living
pastels of decay...
from all the chaos the...

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Categories: fiord, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond Cook Strait
From toothed alps to McKenzie High Country
  to hardwood alpine forest and fernland,
there rises the jewel Aoraki 
  out of the jagged ice...

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Categories: fiord, places,
Form: Sonnet
An Island
The Island

There was an island where the fiord arms open and the     ocean begins
  it was a nice little island...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fiord, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Tired Angels
Tired Angels

 He was a lucky man by his side angels walked
or perhaps flittered a little jostling as they all wanted to be near him.
Absentminded,...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fiord, absence, best friend, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Distant Country
Distant country 


The flat was on the third floor, flights of wooden stairs
deep groves from generations of people going up and down
in the living room,...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fiord, angst, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs