Short Earthbound Poems

translucent beauty
clear light illuminates
an earthbound star...

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Earthbound creatures they
While I commune with the wind
  Drifting with my dreams

 ...

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Is that the mist
over stricken street
Or cloud in an act of suicide earthbound
Or are my eyes misty
as the tears drown my eyes...

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Brown-suited Indian

My

Pillowed refuge

To the

Unforgiving eyes

And the

Mynah Bird claws

Of

Earthbound peoples...

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The night is all mine.
Laying in lush, dew soaked grass
Hands for a pillow,
My earthbound home forgotten
As I hitch a ride with stars…...

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my skin , thy flesh
thirsting for pleasure
as if thy spirit unaware
denial of thee
an earthbound rebuke of sort
a plead to our divine...

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the young boy running
his kite lifts into the sky
delighted laughter
his dreams no longer earthbound
oh, the possibilities


4/2/15...

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Let us venture externally the box,
Let's discover - let's rediscover a
Poet 'neath each prelude an earthbound box;
Students we'll remain e'er in a day....

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Unicorns with fairy wings carry me beyond the moon
Flights that transcend  all my earthbound dreams
OH, this trip beyond reality-the stuff of poems it seems....



For the UFO contest...

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He came
and brought her
life with his
stories. They 
were all the life she had.
She lay
with her eyes
wide, blurred 
with images from elsewhere.
He was earthbound small
and she was large,
floating.
It was dark 
when he left the room....

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Enchanted sequins move with laser precision
Sensationally choreographed pyrometrics dance
Mystifying wingless flight of earthbound spirits
Steadily intensifying blurred colors streak by
Blades defy gravity suspended on breaths


By Robb A. Kopp...

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On a gray
November day
I watched a squirrel
at his play.

So nimbly
around the tree
his dance was lovely
wild and free.

Towards the sky
on branches high
with winged feet
he seemed to fly.

Poor earthbound me
wished I could be
as graceful
as was he....

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 Haiku Strings

autumnal cortege
files in scarlet and orange
under azure skies

yellow evening beams
pots of gold across the grass
daylight early fades

saffron harvest moon
bewitches the crisp night air
catching earthbound eyes

9/18/16 ...

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Memories turn to stories with time
And even happy ever afters end
Moments sift through our fingers
and dissipate devouring our lives
A tear so soft and pliable grasps the smile, the loss and the heartbreak
Pain imprisoned in a spherical salt cell
falls earthbound
and dies...

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Light licks it lips round earthbound raindrops
The asphalt snake glimmers and shines
with the jewels of a million stars
The rain dresses me in nature
expelled breath haunts my face
a lost spirit of dying memories
This empty husks that grasps 
and struggles to hold onto
nothingness...

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Earthbound Angels (2)

You know him,
or perhaps
someone like him,
and average guy
a bit shy
no wings
allowing
Him to fly

Average,
says many,
but to family
He’s plenty:
Helpful
Giving
Loving
And kind

He wears
his words
on a sleeve
as his bond;
Love 
and truth
His daily
motto

© Debra Squyres 2013...

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Here come a billion trillion pinpricks,
Earthbound in a headlong plummet,
Off my tiny window each bead flicks,
With the sparkle of a liquid comet. 

Up at the pouring sky I take a peep,
And scan a city that’s much too wet,
Soon I'm lying in my king-sized bed,
By sounds of rain I'm lulled to sleep....

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should the moon 
retreat forever 
behind a darkened sky 
and all the stars 
fall earthbound 
without their 
twinkling light 
if the sun should 
cease to rise 
the clouds go 
their separate ways 
and all the birds 
no longer soar 
i still will 
not forget you 
for in all truth 
i am forever yours...

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Earthbound renegades
Quietly nestle
Beneath mulch rugs.

Their silent vigils begin
From crouched positions
Down deep in shady glens.

Grounded in grassy glades,
Upstarts creep unnoticed
Till they stretch, fully dressed.

These vibrant visuals rise
From underground rooms
Decorating woodland floors....

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Across the moats of light year spaces,
Across the dark of the earthbound skies,
Starlight leaves just the faintest traces
Collecting softly upon my eyes.

Dimmed in brilliance by the nearer moon
They are lost in distance, and dwarfed in size,
And I, like them, am in other places
And will not be back anytime soon....

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My nest is emptier now by one.
Ripped a gaping hole where from the fledgling flown.
He felt the pull of open sky, brazen adventure beckoning
beyond the confines of safely folded feathers.
I trust his wings to carry him far.
I hope his courage will keep him aloft.
While my heavy hearts holds me earthbound;
I want him to soar....

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EFG


Emeralds

elfin emeralds
exude earthbound energy ~
  essence escaping

Fiera

fiery fireworks fun
 fire flowers fauna flora ~
  festive fairground fetes

Gourmand

gourmet gastronome
 grumbles gets greasy gravy ~
  gleeful glutton gloats
 
7-20-20
Let the Pens Flow – Alliteration
Sponsor: Jenish Somades...

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Fluffy's joined the jet set
in the upper stratosphere
where the cirrus clouds are wispy
just like her touzled hair.

Is she off to Tokyo
or maybe to LA?
When dogs have joined the jet set
it's difficult to say.

But what about her carbon count?
It must be very high.
More local earthbound walkies
should reduce her need to fly....

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Earthbound Angels (1)

You know her,
or perhaps 
someone like her,
getting by
day to day
no wings
allowing 
her to fly

Average,
says many,
but to family
her attributes
are plenty;
a kind nature
wearing a smile
for all

She carries
her heart
on the sleeve
of her words
giving freely…
a glimpse
into a love
filled soul

© Debra Squyres 2013...

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As christmas mounts decembers passing
we huddle in your absence.
Our eyes earthbound in aversion
of the stinging words etched upon the marble.
A solitary magpie skipping over the crystallised blades
highlights my purpose at your graveside.
Your first christmas misspent in the depths of the earths
are my thoughts as my eyes thaw the ground beneath....

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