Earth Poems - Examples of all types of earth poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Eyes of Mother NatureNot just the sky itself, they are every ocean and stream
filled with reflections of rainbows, waterfalls and rain
Windows of beauty - fringed in verdant shades of green.
Not a trace of sadness shows for things...
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Categories:
earth, metaphor, nature,
Form: Terza Rima
International FuneralGod, in the gloaming, splits the horizon with lightning,
assembly of angels of every nation and tongue ~
lifting coffins of great numbers of war dead,
military, and civilian men, women, children,
over dusky rolling fields of scarlet poppies,
nations...
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Categories:
angel, earth, funeral, god,
Form: Free verse
We Destroy the Earth
Humans dump our garbage into the sea
Not caring that many creatures it kills
It’s totally thoughtless if you ask me
We destroy the rain forest with our skill,
And pollute the air with cars exhaust pipe
Doth destruction...
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Categories:
earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Terza Rima
Vanishing Canopy
Billions of years old, this unique blue planet of ours
survived through eons of trying times of tectonic turmoil,
fostered life’s march on the course of matchless evolution,
like the loving mother nurtured the pristine beauty...
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Categories:
earth, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Bread Is From EarthDeep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
or even a local family-safe
polyculturally resilient community
Because I am too capitalistically infested
with buying and selling
highest and...
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Categories:
community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Gaias NirvanaBreathing in the chromatic fields
such tranquility as it yields.
to fade away the winter’s gloom
and celebrate the springtime blooms.
With elation of souls caress
I inhale the splendidness;
the aroma cache has been renewed
with sweet scents buds imbued.
Walking in...
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Categories:
appreciation, earth, flower, poems,
Form: Sonnet
Bleeding HeartsOh, yes, I'm one of those Bleeding Hearts.
It bleeds for those young men and women sent afar
who gave their lives for us to be free,
so you could be you and I could be me.
It also...
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Categories:
appreciation, bird, community, earth,
Form: Rhyme
a history that breathes
History breathes as we awaken into each new imagination.
Did you think this was a life? It...
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Categories:
appreciation, celebration, creation, earth,
Form: Narrative
A BouquetA Bouquet
Astute; beautiful Chrysanthemums
Decadent earthly Foxglove
Gentle hands; immaculate
Judging Kaffir Lilies
Miniature noises orchestrated
Pretty; quiet Rudbeckia
Shocking trellises; ultimatums
Vermillion wonderful; extravagant
Young Zenobia
...
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Categories:
earth day,
Form: ABC
DIRTY EARTHThe Earth isn’t for ever cleaned
The dirt cleaned, somewhere again...
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Categories:
earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
NowNOW
In the Realm of heaven, where time is not.
Only pure channeled love, is every thought.
Where energy of souls, blend and is God.
Perfection the purest, no needs, no wants.
But as is creation, and for ever shall...
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Categories:
angel, corruption, creation, earth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
While mother Earth gently moans
Chopping the trees savagely,
Not a bit of repent,
On the face of feller... strangely!
Pollution.....choking our lives,
For industrial growth,
What a crazy drive!
The barmy use of plastics,
Not knowing it's effects,
Making our planet sick.
Life will start to groan,
It's time...
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Categories:
earth, environment, nature, pollution,
Form: Terza Rima
ReStorying EarthJusticeRestorative justice programs
empower victims
and enlighten remorseful perpetrators
To become active co-responders
in a partnership
to brighten win/lose
left-brain dominant trespassers
in the win/win grace of forgiving
fore-gifting all us Trespassers
as we forgive our TransPassive exploiters
straight white privileged monoculturists
overpoweringly competitive capitalists
climate eco-extractive...
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Categories:
culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Poor in the city
Working, renewal in the city of Delhi,
Humayun's to the signature development everywhere,
A phase never has seen,
Money forced poor and Halcyon life,
The lilt in a polluted atmosphere
Dirty-minded carbons moving in slums,
Strong tin doors in the slum,...
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Categories:
earth, adventure, anger, day, dream,
Form: Free verse
Rumi Translation: The FieldThe Field
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lazes in such lush grass
the world is too...
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Categories:
earth, green, islamic, rights,
Form: Epigram
Specific Types of Earth Poems
Definition | What is Earth in Poetry?
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