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Best Terrestrial Poems

Below are the all-time best Terrestrial poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of terrestrial poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Poetic Notions
Grounded by the gravity of our earth 
      Our body and spirit are often pulled 
In opposite opposing directions in
...

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Categories: terrestrial, character, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pride of the Motherland
Riding an elephant
Down the narrow trail looking triumphant
Scanning the golden landscape
Like Hannibal with enemies in flight
Sight from a lofty height
King of the jungle moving
With lioness...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, history, hope, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Gloaming Glory
Gloaming Glory

Fiery orb of living luminous light 
    descending slowly before the 
        sea at...

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Categories: terrestrial, absence, beauty, color, sea,
Form: Free verse
Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil,...

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Categories: terrestrial, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
On Tour
On Tour


To dive into the world of the great barrier reef would be enough
assimilating into the tranquil environment somewhere in the Capricorn
looking below while leaping...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, nature, travel, vacation,
Form: Sonnet
God's Bag of Sugar
God's bag of sugar 
Burst all over the North
The sweet scent of the stars are pleasant to the eyes.

The limiltless strength of the belt of...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrestrial, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Stitched Beauty

The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...

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Categories: terrestrial, allusion, truth, wisdom, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Snowflakes
Snowflakes float
Whimsically on the wind
	Drift
		Soar
			Fall  
	Gentle merging of 
		Terrestrial elements 
Seeking 
	Cosmic order of
		Patterned perfection
Children frolic with Frosty 
	Making snowmen and 
		Snow angels
Snowflakes melt
	Swept...

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© Mel Gill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: terrestrial, beauty, destiny, life, march,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kookaburra
The Kookaburra, this terrestrial Kingfisher like bird
With it's onomatopoeic call, laughter in it's world
They inhabit arid savanna's and humid forests so lush
Also suburban to residential,...

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Categories: terrestrial, animals, nature, places
Form: Quatrain
The Forgotten Spaceman
Lunar eclipse plunges me in shadow.
Orbital, I spin in the dark.
Nebulas, I am insignificant amongst many,
Extra-terrestrial, alone and apart.
Limbic, I drift with creation.
Interstellar, I reunite...

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Categories: terrestrial, anxiety, fear, loneliness, loss,
Form: Acrostic
Where Love Has Never Gone Before
Where Love Has Never Gone Before

...the legacy of a poet...


A man is not a man until his love becomes idolatrously immense
Since time began, his love...

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Categories: terrestrial, destiny, journey, love,
Form: Rhyme
Celestial Sailing
Swallow me whole, you great astronomical abyss,
Stretch my soul, as you bear witness to my first kiss…

Take me to treasures beyond the Pillars of Hercules,
Passing...

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Categories: terrestrial, adventure, magic, universe,
Form: Couplet

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