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Flatland Poems - Poems about Flatland

The Israel-Gaza War

...On October the 7th, the precarious peace

of  the disputed ancient lands began to cease.

The enraged avengers brought the Al-Aqsa flood

that deluged the Re'im music festival with blood.

 
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Categories: flatland, military, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNever A Flatland Trimeric

...Work with me sisters lead a seance,
I can feel myself on both of my legs;
It may be hard but I must master this,
If I don’t fight I’ve given up on me;

I can feel myself on both of my legs, 
st...
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Categories: flatland, emotions, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Other



Premium MemberTurn Up An American Sonnet

...Driving across country give me that soul,
all the stars and stripes of freedom;
Rock n’ roll and a grill filled with charcoal,
so sweet American hum drum;

From mountains to sea to flatland coun...
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Categories: flatland, america, emotions, feelings, freedom,
Form: Sonnet

a short memory

...a short memory

There were and still are two airports on the flatland 
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers 
where stationed here.
Since roads, and bridges had to be built and mai...
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Categories: flatland, absence, age, best friend,
Form: Blank verse

Fits the Need

...
"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to f...
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Categories: flatland, future, humanity, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Schooner

...The schooner

On the flatland between the vales, I could see the sea
I had walked uphill for a long time, after the downhill
and the way to the coast, it was easy, but it was 
getting cold, I wo...
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Categories: flatland, absence, bible, devotion,
Form: Sonnet

My Africa

...My Serengeti

I have neglected to visit my “Africa”, the flatland between
two hills that appear like a young mother`s breasts.
I know the trees and bushes, used to drive there to say hello.
Time...
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Categories: flatland, absence, africa,
Form: Blank verse

The Forest We Planted

...The forest we planted 
	
In the flatland of western Norway 
where the wind has no hesitation rolling sheep into a woolly ball
horses turned their rump to the wind hung their heads

Refusing to ...
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Categories: flatland, abuse, analogy, break up,
Form: Blank verse

Locomotive West

...Straight moves the locomotive train miles
Traveling over desert flatland forging ahead,
Coal steam engine Number 9 chug, chug, chug,
Sound waves rolls through, satisfying sensation is said.
Locom...
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Categories: flatland, america, family, heaven, horse,
Form: Rhyme

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: flatland, anger, animal, freedom, humorous,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberFactoidman and Shallowman - Part 2

...[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cemen...
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Categories: flatland, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Mean Machine

...Mean Machine

The locomotive was an old mean machine
only used for carrying gods at local stations along
boring flatland. Once it had been a young and
the President of Portugal rode on it, not o...
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Categories: flatland, africa, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberBleeding Before Rome -2

...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories: flatland, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic

Ink's Wickedness

...Bloodthirstiness of ink's wickedness, 
ruthlessly dripped upon parchment
blistering an already screeching sun,
no footprints apparently left in sand as
oceans's bluffs turned oases to flatland,
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Categories: flatland, allegory, crazy, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse

F L a T L a N D

...To resist the op(press)ion 
of the two (dement)sional flatland world of glossy magazines,
I have (ob)seen women

Mutilate their forearms with deep(er) strokes of a razor
So that they may prove w...
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Categories: flatland, abuse, anxiety, body, image,
Form: Free verse

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