Landfall Poems - Poems about Landfall

Derek Walcott ' LANDFALL- Grenada ' _¥__ \ ° \° \ ° ...

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air depression in ocean thick cloud sucked by low pressure… moisture billows up hurricane is born eye follows blindly the track … land lacerated by fall storm surge flattens things on way flood drowns the ruins… devastation batters lives ______________ December 12, 2022 Syllable count : 775, 577, 757 (HMS) Contest : Triple New Charlieku Sponsored by : Charles Messina...

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Temptation is in the sunset To gaze behind the stern Toward a distant landfall To which I may ne’er return. I will point my bow to westward, Where yonder sets the sun, Following true my guide star Until the sailing is done. I will never sing of lost loves And things that might have been. I will run before the wind Unless I return again. ...

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This long time doodling Yankee (who calls Southeastern Montgomery, Pennsylvania LV plus III four seasons visited upon swath of topography to see and hear flora and fauna over run via industrialization he doth experience pity sympathy, humanity deafening cacophony undermining once abundant bounty, which mutiny upon bounty outwits mother...

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Looking back, a morning mist hangs In the deeply shadowed valleys From the deck of ‘Atlanta,’ Land recedes on the power of wind In the deeply shadowed valleys The sun is slowly awakening trees Land recedes on the power of wind Sails respond to a surging sea The sun is slowly awakening trees From the deck of ‘Atlanta,’ Sails respond to a surging...

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Landfall. Normandy, the day the allied landed, should like the holocaust not be forgotten, it spelt the end of a malevolent empire. When landing crafts hit the shore, many brave soldiers died before they could step ashore on the golden sand of Normandy. By blind courage and a will of steel many soldiers got to where banks are steep seek shelter...

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