Best Tectonics Poems

Sometimes extraordinary earthquakes radically rearrange the landscape
Sometimes continents collide, violently vying for the same space
Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing two valleys

Sometimes your...

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Plate Tectonics

When crust and mantle- 
Meet beneath the steal gray seas
Fiery flames burn.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 9, 2008...

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I wait for the deluge
To see Arizona's Coast
Join hands, tread water....

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Next to my son's anger
plate tectonics are nothing
to me. His unhappiness
was caused by me.
His purpose and mine
is to catch photons and
store them in our bones.
Time...

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An old man remembers what he has been
yet the details are unimportant. Then
the outline disappears, and the meaning.

Good, I can die or go to work,...

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Internal Rhyme

The Sonic of the earth’s plate tectonics was given birth
By the  unbalanced wobble of the earth
While the wobbling of the natural earth
By carnal...

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Wooden half-desk folded down into place
Textbook open, pencil poised
Einstein poster on the wall observing
Equations flying across the blackboard
Cumulonimbus clouds of chalk dust 
Float across the...

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Wind circulates, lifting and flattening
an otherwise, benign, breathless world, 
relying also on deeper, slowly moving
tectonics, belching foully, scattering
seas...effecting change.  Seasons like Sun
rejoice and fold....

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The study of earth.
Topics are plate tectonics,
Rock types and rivers....

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There cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
All to...

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The sonics,
Of earth’s plate tectonics,
Was given birth,
By the wobble of the earth,
While the wobble of the earth,
Was given birth,
By the carnal mind invention,
Which reversed love’s...

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Finding Home
                by Odin Roark

So temporary
Earth's tabled destiny

The shifting tectonics...

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Mount Rushmore; Carved In Stone

From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in...

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I write like bakers bake
my rhymes make earth shake
Going into contest with me was your biggest mistake
I control the earths plates, tectonics, your rhymes are...

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"Hey just give me a minute to level my locks"
               ...

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