Best Landfall Poems

This long time doodling Yankee 
(who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV
plus III four seasons visited 
   upon swath of topography to see
and hear flora and fauna over run 
   via industrialization he doth experience pity
sympathy, humanity deafening cacophony undermining 
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Looking back, a morning mist hangs
In the deeply shadowed valleys
From the deck of ‘Atlanta,’
Land recedes on the power of wind
In the deeply shadowed valleys
The sun is  slowly awakening trees
Land recedes on the power of wind
Sails respond to a surging sea
The sun is  slowly...

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Derek Walcott ' LANDFALL- Grenada '

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air depression in ocean
thick cloud sucked by low pressure…
moisture billows up

hurricane is born
eye follows blindly the track …
land lacerated by fall

storm surge flattens things on way
flood drowns the ruins…
devastation batters lives

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December 12, 2022
Syllable count : 775, 577, 757 (HMS)
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Landfall.

Normandy, the day the allied landed,
should like the holocaust not be forgotten,
it spelt the end of a malevolent empire.

When landing crafts hit the shore, many 
brave soldiers died before they could step 
ashore on the golden sand of Normandy.

By blind courage and a will of...

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Temptation is in the sunset
To gaze behind the stern
Toward a distant landfall
To which I may ne’er return.

I will point my bow to westward,
Where yonder sets the sun,
Following true my guide star
Until the sailing is done.

I will never sing of lost loves
And things that might have...

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