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Lowland Poems - Poems about Lowland

Third World Urbanize Mind

...Where are the bamboo
Banana husk, dad's stone chair
Mom's vegetable pots.

Where are the rice fields
Peanuts, peas, potatoes
Corn, cassava, sweet and tamarind.

Where is my childhood place
I...
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Categories: lowland, happiness, perspective, political, success,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSplendor Of Nature

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The brook murmurs as it flows on the plateau, 
across the draping emerald forest spread out opulent,
splashes on the curved contours of the lowland  
as flicking cascade of the s...
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Categories: lowland, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi

...Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mou...
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Categories: lowland, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative

Monarch Butterfly

...I am the monarch of the sky
can outdistance by the miles
every insect, every time
heavy rain or bright sunshine
like a fearless horse I run 
in the heart of boisterous winds
like a skater coast...
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Categories: lowland, butterfly,
Form: Personification

Dark

...A state that doesn’t give spark
For it fancies it not: The Dark;
The time a true mongrel would bark
And hearers know what it means: Hark!

A pitch black night yields the Far Dark,
No likely son...
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Categories: lowland, color, dark, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme



The Perennial

...The Perennial 

On an overhang, where the mountain slopes gently towards the lowland and the sea
 there is a crooked tree with long roots embracing the mountain 
Is the plant an asp or a birch, t...
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Categories: lowland, best friend, creation, devotion,
Form: Blank verse

Buhari's Poetical Graphics Representation

...All efforts tabled on Nigeria;
Experiencing a fortunate miscarriage, 
Feasting Aso rock- a pizzeria 
But never admit it is the cause of this age. 

Upon the solid manifesto, 
That touches all s...
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Categories: lowland, abuse, africa, art, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Splendor of Nature

...The stream murmurs as it slithers in vale 
through the draping emerald forest opulent,
splashes on the wavy contours of lowland, 
in cataracts it gurgles like flutte...
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Categories: lowland, analogy, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeyond Cook Strait

...From toothed alps to McKenzie High Country
  to hardwood alpine forest and fernland,
there rises the jewel Aoraki 
  out of the jagged ice age peaks so grand.
And polar winds at its rock face...
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Categories: lowland, places,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOh To Be In Trinidad

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  Oh, to be in Trinidad
when the hot scented currents flow,
  from East Dry River to Nariva 
samaan and silk cotton tree grow.
  Where whisperin’ palms reach
across island reef and coconut...
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Categories: lowland, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Gorge

...I saw a gorge, a remote vision from distant, far far away from the surface, how sharp, how precipitous, how deep!

A  singular, unsurpassed, cavernous  cleft;
a crevice among two gigantic hills, h...
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Categories: lowland, absence, appreciation, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDenizens of the Low Country

...Where the sandhill cranes gather,
I stand and watch the swans preen
In the morning sun near the bridge
Alone, except for a circling vulture
All denizens of the lowland culture,
Passi...
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Categories: lowland, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDeconstruction

...Away from the areas of complete ad nauseam
As political cases grasp a zenith of their corium
To utterly saturate the airwaves with information
Each other's obnoxious and feeble desc...
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Categories: lowland, analogy, bereavement, caregiving, change,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFlood Warning

...water fills lowland
fields looking much like a lake
100 ducks float...
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Categories: lowland, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberNature's Splendor

...The stream murmurs as it flows on plateau 
through the draping emerald forest opulent,
splashes on the wavy contours of lowland  
in flicking cascades like swan flock in fligh...
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Categories: lowland, nature, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse

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