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Best Quakes Poems

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Premium Member Unsettled Sea
While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the...

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Categories: quakes, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme



I Am He As You Are Me
When the night wind changes course
sending breezes from the north,
when farmer's fields lie brown and fallow
and empty ropes swing from the gallows,
when children's faces are...

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Categories: quakes, adventure, fantasy, imagination, science,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Freedom of Poetry
An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quakes, addiction, blessing, freedom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Why
Written after one of those terrible murderous massacres of children in what is supposed to be a safe haven … SCHOOL!!

A cruel sea
a raging storm
calm...

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Categories: quakes, anger, death,
Form: Rhyme
Renegades Foreva
Renegades Foreva!

Renegade teenage rage babes 
thinkin’ they all grown, all knowin’ 
when they seedlin’s barely sown
bleedin’ teenage angst with teenage crankst
always rhymin’ and mis-timin’ some...

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Categories: quakes, growing up, rap, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Thirst
On my personal cross of pain I hang
Suspended between earth and sky
Reality and make believe
There I hang
There I cry
I thirst

I thirst
For pure love
I thirst
For lasting...

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Categories: quakes, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother
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"MOTHER" 

Mother Earth 
is Crying

Her heart is breaking
Earth is shaking violently

She is hurt and 
She is angry

Her tears no longer reign
Oceans...

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Categories: quakes, creation, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Every Day
Slow is the sun knowing that I am already awake...
Unwilling are these eyes to search that which has already been seen
Now, time waits upon my...

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Categories: quakes, life, sadlife, life, sun,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Wolf - Part 3
...... Part 3 ......

The old wolf creeps, the old wolf leaps
on prey he’s been a’ trackin’ –
a deer adorned with branchin’ horns
is torn by beasts...

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Categories: quakes, nature, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Moai
Quarried,  and carved from our earthen mother's skeletal
Backbone and under belly, were the Moai solid rock deities,
Stone guardians of Easter Island.
A mystical place, a...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quakes, adventure, art, beauty, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man In Kitchen
Man in Kitchen

So this is it, this place I’ve never been
I wander in and find it’s kept pristine
So this is where she disappears
And later on...

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Categories: quakes, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Before the City Wakes
Come, walk with me in this early dawn
while the darkness fades in solitude
As first light appears, and moon drifts on
we will drink in the quiet...

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Categories: quakes, city, life, society,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Wish That I Was An Eagle
The Eagle of Isaiah 40:31*…

Activating achievement-appearance
Blowing blessings’ brilliance
Carrying changes’ chance
Directing drive-dare despite distance…

Extending endurance effortlessly
Fueling faith-fervor fully
Greeting God’s goodness’ glow graciously
Hoisting hopefulness-height hastily…

Increasing influence in...

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Categories: quakes, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Abecedarian
Waiting
Mountains crumble no more to be 
Oceans of woe since you left me 
Thunder rolls and my heart it breaks 
Humbly life ends, my soul...

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Categories: quakes, death, faith, family, inspirational,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Fallen Angel
A far away rumbling draws near,
An eerie calm, ensues all things,
Remain still. 
Silence reigns, nature holds,
It's breath,
Carried upon shifting winds
Hear soft whispers calling, beware.
Heavens valets...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quakes, angel, beautiful, faith, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs