Emagi - Walcott 'Landfall '
Derek Walcott ' LANDFALL- Grenada '
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Categories:
landfall, earth, sea,
Form: Shape
Landfall Devastation
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
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December 12, 2022
Syllable count : 775, 577, 757 (HMS)
Contest : Triple New Charlieku
Sponsored by : Charles Messina
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Categories:
landfall, depression, storm,
Form: Haiku
Westering Sun
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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Categories:
landfall, adventure, emotions, farewell, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Hurricane Harvey Landfall August 27th 2017
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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Categories:
landfall, america, courage, environment, loss,
Form: Imagism
Leaving Landfall At Dawn
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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Categories:
landfall, ocean, sea, water, wind,
Form: Pantoum
Landfall
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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Categories:
landfall, adventure, war,
Form: Free verse