Terra Incognita
Putting out fires not of my making
it's time-consuming heart-breaking
the grass over there don't seem any greener
and from my perspective the streets are meaner
the so-called social networks are as unsociable as can be
impersonal with dirty laundry on show for everyone to see
despite self-admitted wrong-doing and misdeeds
the herd still follows their every lead
but I won't borrow sorrow
and...
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Categories:
how i feel, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Nuclear WarThe alpha males
stand at the precipice of power
each attempting to prove
They are the greatest
Resting on the backs of stupidity
a nuclear war
one percent chance
of total annihilation
of life on the planet
As we destroy
our ecological systems
ninety-nine percent
of the world dying
from nuclear radiation
and the direct...
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Categories:
conflict, environment, planet,
Form: Narrative
Fury Breaks Its SilenceFury Breaks Its Silence
From South to North Pole, and beyond
Glaciers crack, not by time,
but by the toxins we’ve forced into the sky.
Each gas, each smoke trail,
a fingerprint on the Earth’s rising pulse.
The Amazon chokes on fire,
not lightning-born but sparked by greed,
Its breath turned to ash by axes and ambition,
It's silence now, a scream.
On Andaman’s edge,...
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Categories:
planet, natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Fire the Immortal by NovaFIRE the Immortal
Fire the Immortal—primordial breath,
Kindled in chaos, a twin flame of death.
Born in the forge where the cosmos ignites,
It dances through nebulae, seeding the night.
With tongues of plasma and fusion-fed might,
It devours the dark, gives birth to the light.
Fueling the stars in their hydrogen blaze,
A crucible shaping the eons and days.
It dines upon carbon,...
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Categories:
planet, fire, god, light, nature,
Form: Free verse
Two kid-adultsThe star-planet is straight above
Two kid-adults on a trampoline.
Side-by-side they watch the sky
At one a.m. on the months eve
Quietly, they're waiting, staring
As time tosses and turns between
The adult-kids who prep like vets
For the other kid-adult to leave
They lay solemn side-by-side
Distanced by a lack of sleep
They make their vows on satellites
Shooting stars, and falling wings
Today-tomorrow,...
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Categories:
friendship, planet, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Tired War, Release the MonkeysTired War,Release the Monkeys
They tried to nail my boot to the floor
No nail puller
My influence won the day
I was the monkey man
Earn the right
I want to ask
Just for a little more time
Growing life growing tree
just to lose it
Can't you see
Life got to be better
Once I lit that cigarette Ocean of tomorrows...
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Categories:
allusion, friend, planet, war,
Form: Free verse
The World is BleedingThe world is bleeding, from the inside out,
with a punctured heart ready to burst.
Call Universal O- blood donors.
They may be able to save the most first.
A rain of tears cleanses streets from the red-
stained, dripping sheet-shrouds oozing children's blood.
While flesh is shredded from human bone by-
natural forces of wind, earth, and flood.
The world lies,...
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Categories:
humanity, planet, pollution, storm,
Form: Sonnet
From My PerspectiveFilth is a reflection of our hearts, our spirit. Until we clean the interior up...there will be no better, cleaner earth. Everything we touch will turn to dung. Earth is an image of our interior home -- one from outside the earth, if wanting to know where mankind is spiritually, need look no further than...
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Categories:
humanity, perspective, philosophy, planet,
Form: Prose
We Dont DeserveWe Don’t Deserve
I read the stories
see blood in the margins,
names etched in shame.
Man’s hand, steady with the knife,
shaking only when called to kindness.
History isn't history.
It's breath on the mirror.
It fogs up, then clears,
only to show us
the same haunted face.
We burn what we didn’t build.
Crush lives under flags
we barely understand.
Skin becomes a reason.
Love becomes a crime.
And...
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Categories:
earth, humanity, nature, planet,
Form: Free verse
Juno
crowned queen of the gods
saturn and jupiter loom
large in her orbit
known for her protective role
mars bows to her motherly grace
...
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Categories:
myth, planet,
Form: Tanka
hiku - turquoise ice
Categories:
beautiful, earth, nature, planet,
Form: Haiku
The Cost of Closeness
It’s hard to tell if they’re playing tag,
or thrusting nectar-drunk love at each other—
mid-June attempts at getting it.
Maybe they’re fighting over first flowers—
legs twitching in hypoglycemic half-paralysis,
like the buzz of waking mid-vacation,
still dazed, muscles aching, but that stinger,
coiled stiff for the week.
Their terror-tails would end me,
or at least suspend me, breath held between
here and...
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Categories:
anxiety, june, planet,
Form: Free verse
OblivionBillions of galaxies,
Plenty of planets,
Moons and suns,
Unfathomable stars,
Bountiful black holes,
Drastic darkness,
Yet on this esoteric earth
My minute head is
Filled with frivolous
And quizzical questions,
“What should I have for dinner?”
“Am I going to be a winner?”
Funny how we take everything
For granted guilelessly,
The thing we call life,
Feels like a distraction sometimes,
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, funerals,
Imbecilic circle,
Just like a...
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Categories:
planet, deep, earth, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Fascinating PlanetIn the galaxy called "Milky Way",
there's a planet Earth where people stay.
It's population, eight billion strong,
and they're always right, never wrong;
and each lives by this dictum,
"Never a perp, always a victim"....
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Categories:
planet, humanity, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Navigate MarvelShe has a hundred,
then covers in sand.
Then 8,000 miles traveled,
to get to land.
Two or four years,
she returned , to be.
Across Atlantic,
beneath the sea.
'How does she do it '?
the great minds do ask.
Where she lays her eggs,
and use sand, to mask.
Then off she goes,
and the babies wait.
Then time has comes,
and...
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Categories:
life, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Planet Poems
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