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Geode Poems - Poems about Geode

stones

...stones
by michael r. burch


i.
far below me lies a village
with its houses hewn from stone
and though Everyman who lives there
bravely claims he’s not alone,
i can tell him, yes u are!
for...
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Categories: geode, fire, heart, house, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTrigger Warning

...("Contagion III", 2020, original pen and ink and oil)

Trigger Warning

From the safe space of my hardened little heart
I send out my love
In waves of conditional bliss
To all who are j...
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Categories: geode, psychological, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLargest Geode Coffee Table Please

...I want the biggest geode coffee table I can get he told the geologist.
Better backtrack I said to my cousin, knowing who he was speaking with.
It is going to be pricey, the geologist warned him, an...
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Categories: geode, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Imagine

...Imagine juicy diamonds on our fingers the size of nickels 
      and old polaroids on ourselves, hungry for some fresh film
for capturing moments like the ones we have down by the river 
      and...
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Categories: geode, allusion, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Drought

...Today like tremors having broken 
a boulder free sending it toppling 
from a cliff in the clutches of gravity 
plunging toward the ground 
encountering my head on its way down
splitting open my ...
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Categories: geode, analogy, care, giving, how
Form: Free verse



Stones

...As I walk
	through growing dusk
cold wind blows
	scattering dry leaves

stones do lie
	about my feet
hidden secrets
	that I could see

if I would stop
	and pick one up
what hidden treasur...
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Categories: geode, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNatures Offspring

...warm spring day dipping toes in the cool creek I spot a geode; a large specimen, of crystals that I will clean  and admire as it rests between my favorite amethyst chunk and the twin cryst...
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Categories: geode, nature, poems, poetry, water,
Form: Haibun

Self Reflections

...SELF REFLECTIONS

These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection. 

Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch 

for anyone struggling with self-image...
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Categories: geode, identity, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Poems About Things That Break Ii

...Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...
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Categories: geode, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme

Rip

...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch

When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact, 
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...

and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories: geode, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse

Resemblance

...Resemblance
by Michael R. Burch

Take this geode with its rough exterior—
crude-skinned, brilliant-hearted ...
a diode of amethyst—wild, electric;
its sequined cavity—parted, revealing.
Find i...
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Categories: geode, metaphor, passion, simile, solitude,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQuartz Colors Our World With Beauty

...Herkimer diamonds
Amethyst, rose, agate,
One of the most well known
Minerals on earth, occurring in every locale
Quartz countertops
Quartz crystals
Quartz geode
Smoky,
Yellow
Pink,
Quartz
...
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Categories: geode, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQuartz Coloring Our World

...Quartz Coloring Our World with Beauty
Herkimer diamonds
Amethyst, rose, agate,
One of the most well known
Minerals on earth, occurring in every locale
Quartz countertops
Quartz crystals
Quartz...
...
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Categories: geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Intimations of My Late Mother As a Bachelorette

...Attempt to shine
     flickering figurative klieg light
with the help of hyperbole
     on poverty wrought
debutante material, this predicated
     on my own unbiased thought
initially related ...
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Categories: geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Ballad

Wracked With Ratiocination When Writing

...no shortage of familiar metier real
     (material) aye attest
welling up within thy breast
merely a predicament how to winnow

     junk bonded barnacled
     accretion encrusted
     amidst ...
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Categories: geode, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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