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Best Topsoil Poems


Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
  by the butterfly, now set free

Where once a pine cone lay on the topsoil
  awaiting a crucible of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsoil, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suicidal Humanity
Our supposed modern scientific genius
May in fact just be our last fatal weakness.
This technological house of cards we've made
Left humanity walking along the edge of a razor blade.

How much could you buy or sell using debit or credit
If someone or something wiped out the internet.
A...

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Categories: topsoil, angst, business, earth, environment,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Occam's Butter Knife
As I rummage through the cabbage patch of general affairs,
I’m made aware of certain signs of cultural decline.
I see it written in the talon marks of chem-trails overhead,
Confirming all my pet conspiracy theories.
It’s rooted in the topsoil of a flat earth conviction.
It’s every suburban legend’s...

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Categories: topsoil, allegory, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped Earth
Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised  to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches mudbank plot as toilers whine,
thunderstruck I gaze at wild indigo sea mist on brine-fleck shore  

Edge of seat terra...

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Categories: topsoil, anxiety, art, august, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Minus Identity Who I Am
Plagued by incandescent ferments  I grapple zealously,
with tower blocks of titan topsoil myriads, 
and melange of eccentric foibles,
considered by some to be  a minus,
but without this composite what is my real nature?
reflection on a manifest mettlesome being,
leaden skewed  traffic jam’s tailback of...

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Categories: topsoil, character, deep, endurance, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Autumn At Sunset
At twilight’s ease of dusk the autumn leaves do flutter in the
Evening breeze, trickling downwards across inspirations canvas,
Creating a multicolored cascade at sunset, a leafy rainbow clasping
From the tree tops heights, than blowing wildly astray on the breathe
Of the winds!

Limbs sway on the alpine mountain...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsoil, adventure, animal, autumn, beauty,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiv Part2
(continues after part1)

When he agreed, his neck I held and climb;
And he waited for proper time and place,
And when the wings were open at the prime,

He clutched the hairy ribs with strong embrace;
From fleece to fleece he rapid went then down
Betwixt the hair thick and...

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Categories: topsoil, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Summer Noosphere
Wet nights, warm days are what we want in the summer noosphere.
Man's mind one with weather.
If this is true, life is good, or will be good.
Can I be encouraged that my sons will find mystery on the planet
as I did?

How sweet the slow spring! May...

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Categories: topsoil, fear, flower, love, mystery,
Form: Verse
Osmosis
Autopilot tired
broken wings
sore in soaring flight
fluttering, down-spiral 
clouds streaming beyond fog 
drowsy
then, 
three barrel rolls
swirling through silver light
simulcast storm shakes black topsoil
mineral enriched,
vitamins collide,
seep through porous skin
providing synthesized eruptions
cataclysmic spasms drop knowledge undetected by erudition
 
Thick walls wobble, crack, then begin to close in on...

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Categories: topsoil, beautiful, deep, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 3 July 2118
Radio free State of Deseret 3 July 2118, 6 PM Salt Lake Time

International news first.

27 Zionist terrorists leaders were beheaded in the Caliphat of Palestine yesterday after their failed attempt to establish a third state of Israel in Jerusalem during Rhamadan.

One of the last two...

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Categories: topsoil, allegory, america, anniversary, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revolutionary Plutocracy
Those who get,
get more.
Those who want,
want more.

Evolution is not survival of the fittest species,
but thrival of the greatest fit with least endosymbiotic change required
within,
whether we speak of polycultural enrichment
or meta-paradigmatic revolutions in understanding multicultural enrichment.

Evolution is BusinessAsUsual (BAU) cooperative-dominant nutritional networking
between what were more autonomous,
monocultural,...

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Categories: topsoil, health, love, political, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dust Bowl Anthology
a mass migration  
heading west to farm the land ~
inexperienced 

in the arid soil
ordinary crops planted  ~
dry farming ignored

drought and poor farming
topsoil blowing in the wind ~
dust bowl created  
 
deep rooted plains grass
taken out and wheat planted ~
devastation looms 

across the...

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Categories: topsoil, farm, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Haiku
Ceasar Salad
People think plants are not violent 
This is where I will tend to disagree
Have you ever seen a vine strangle a tree?
What about when a fly is devoured by the Venus?
When the weeds clog the yard with such immensity that drains every nearby plant?

Sure you...

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Categories: topsoil, allegory, culture, earth, emotions,
Form: Free verse
These Were Winds
At first there was no alarm; these were winds
And high prairie farms had learned to hold tight
Against gale force blizzards and tornado;
Replanting, repairing after each storm,
‘Rain Follows the Plow’, the golden promise
For European settlers flush with land,
Planting in familiar ways of home,
Trusting tradition and the...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: topsoil, history, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Get Up
Get Up

The further I run into love I lose more and more of me
Seeing the water run off the rocks and not understanding the rain
Knowing that life has not aided the thoughts that I think
Endless breath can you keep a secret of do I keep...

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Categories: topsoil, allegory, change, confusion, feelings,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things