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Borderland Poems - Poems about Borderland


Heaven's Harpsichord
...Harpsichord in heaven? Cubic or spherical? Bread, O baker? Leaven. Just flicker as you fall... Dancing lights apace in space? Watch them in her face. Ghost, vanish without a trace! Gold, cas......

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Categories: borderland, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member forest whispers to aaro
...come, aaro, to where mist (hangs) between ancient t r e e s & light filters through verdant canopies i will show you the ......

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Categories: borderland, baby, celebration, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse



Identity crisis
...I stand between worlds, neither here nor there, Feet planted in Eritrea, yet Arabic fills the air. My father’s tongue, Tigre, I do not know, Nor the Tigrinya of my ancestors, lost in echoes low. ......

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Categories: borderland, africa, arabic, feelings, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member borderland
... deep in the trenches a forest of cardboard trees and stained glass windows twiddling pieces through fingers sizing up like private eye a piece here…and there like a long drawn ou......

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Categories: borderland, angst, imagery,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member - Universe -
...~ keep your mind awake ~ and in constant wonder ~ quote by poet On diamond evenin......

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Categories: borderland, beauty, fantasy, journey, universe,
Form: Free verse



Lament For Ukraine
...They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks Covered in various armaments of war. Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence, Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land, And desecrating the once......

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Categories: borderland, 10th grade, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Radio Silence
...Out here in the outpost I guard the borderland “Over and out” – I lose the call And you are out again This is my shout out From the hinterland “Roger, Roger” at my post But you are – out – a......

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Categories: borderland, loneliness, silence, wind, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Hoot
...They come close to my backyard. This is their frontier, a borderland one windowpane thick. Inside my room, my weakly ticking brain like a deflated blimp, is wedged between one ear and the wild b......

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Categories: borderland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hoot Owls
...They come close to my backyard. This is their frontier, a borderland one windowpane thick. Inside my room, my soul like a deflated blimp, is wedged between one ear and the wild beyond. Sound......

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Categories: borderland, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Mowed Down Field Day With Redacted Mueller Report
...Attorney General William Barr black marker in hand kept promise to censor vital details of Mueller Report swift as Usain Bolt candidly, grandly, lustrously, roundly youthfully blocked out mor......

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Categories: borderland, anger, animal, freedom, humorous,
Form: Political Verse
Crossed Frontier
...Borderland of friendly people, new land vast to cross, inviting with its beauty - enticing. Visited by Pilgrims - persecuted men of new religions in their countries of origin. They bonded......

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Categories: borderland, political,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forgive, the World Needs It
...As the great man's note rightly says it Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong The weak can never indulge in it For, they are the ones to see always the world as wrong Yes, forgiveness impl......

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Categories: borderland, forgiveness,
Form: Quatern
Rusalka
...She flickers in the borderland In the mirror and the marsh Sparkling like the morning dew On a grateful corpse In the bog her murmuring The echo of a cry Travels on the plaintive wind ......

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Categories: borderland, beauty, earth, longing,
Form: Prose Poetry

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