Short Terra Firma Poems

terra firma
three hundred sixty-four days.
terror firma for one....

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Earth playing in space.
Rolling over and over.
Sunrise, sunset, spin!...

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The terra firma
A domain which teems with life.
Sans it, landbound die....

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Turning, swirling fast!
Terra Firma twists its way
through universe vast!...

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sunset mocks rice fields
    soil embraced by widow weeds
        life source diminished...

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Winter blanket drapes
All over terra firma
Leaves frozen in place


Date written and posted: 02/13/2019...

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Budding, preening tendrils in winter sunshine
Flora grasping, creeping from terra firma
Standing breathless, dawn is a sapphire calyx 
Hope springs eternal...

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(a time piece in space)

behind yonder face
the fat queen lays indolent
subjects scurry blind
a hive of activity
driving each day into night.

© Harry J Horsman 2017...

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Earth

Arid
Red
Terra Firma
Hard

Air

Aerate
Inflate
Refresh

Fire

Fierce
Indiscriminate
Raging
Embers

Water

Wet
Aquatic
Thirst-quenching
Ebb
Rain...

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Inspirered by a Rose
my attempt at Old English


Terra Firma

If heaven ræste on thy brow
and Hell beneath thy feet
Thus life would be more crowded Now, 
Thou has taken seat...

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Lyrical in beauty
dug from the depths 
of the past.
A storyteller, articulate 
elegaic  writing words
to last.
Of farm life and childhood, 
deep in Irish  terra firma 
frozen in memory
and now 
released for our delight 
in  a succinctness of thought
of the commonplace...

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                              land
                   inland, cultivable
           leasing, foraging, entailing
terrestrial, terra firma, oceanic, offshore
             boating, ferrying, sailing
                  acquatic, nautical
                              sea
...

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How chafed the foot bereft of sole,
when unshod thoughts meet splintered floor.
Known terra firma drifts from whole, 
as reason loses sight of shore.

03 Mar 2020 
First four lines of "Unmoored - God Knows Where I Am" written 29 May 2017. Gregory R. Barden's Rithimus Divisa 2 Poetry Contest...

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Elixir of life
Paramount to living souls.
Sans it, endless strife.

The terra firma
A domain which teems with life.
Sans it, landbound die.

Air, the gentle breeze
A clot of gas we hold dear.
Sans it, woe betide.

Water, land, air
Gifts of god precious art they
Need them be destroyed?...

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S P A C E

Spaces, Pulling After Culling EonS
Paragons of the wasted's cusP
Avalons midst of Terra - firmA
Crevace in open lust-automatiC
Emptiness's dusk, dawning it's EvE
Carrying containerless, magiC
An abyss where solitude seems A
Paradigm shift, formless, tragic heaP
 
Sea Parting A Chasms EntropyS...

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Finding Mother Earth 

The moment’s monumental blip in time and place attempts to find
meandering fluctuating oscillating resting points in mother’s mind 
She lights a candle incense soothing oils seeks terra firma of a kind
loving compassionate Gaia to leave her spinning troubles all behind

15th April 2017...

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Summer has a huge mouth
who speaks by the light that clears
life...
winter is a downpour
partner of lands and fields...
autumn has a blood gray
that it lent the moon...
spring is a sea of flowers
cultivated in paradise,
  and humans we are sowers
sown from everywhere
  of the universe loose
here on this terra firma... !...

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Rising on the morning wind,
The scent of wisteria
Spills forth in fragrant laughter
Lifting my spirit from earth;
Across the ordinary,
Beyond a cosmic boundary,
Joining the celestial song--
Becoming the lesser note
Of a wondrous harmony, 
Resonating ecstasy--
For a moment returning
To mortal terra firma,
Touched by immortal wisdom....

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Rising on the morning wind,
The scent of wisteria
Spills forth in fragrant laughter
Lifting my spirit from earth;
Across the ordinary,
Beyond a cosmic boundary,
Joining the celestial song--
Becoming the lesser note
Of a wondrous harmony, 
Resonating ecstasy--
For a moment returning
To mortal terra firma,
Touched by immortal wisdom....

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echos

lyrical in beauty
dug
     from the depths
              of the past

      articulate
elegaic
       stanza
written words

of farm life childhood,
deep
     in Irish
terra firma

an imagist
       quality
'as is moments'
     frozen in memory
& now
released


 a succinctness
           of thought
in the
   commonplace...

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terra firma truths - A Haiku

terra firma truths
a very, weak hell roars 
because of the heaven

flames eternal burn
lasting forever always
lies of earthen dad

heavenly Father
cover-ups demons so fell
protect as I fly

off into the skies
rapturing soul spirit soars
because of the heaven



5/2/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019 ©...

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Water, water everywhere;
nothing here is stable,
but the moon sickle sinks
her tendrils into our hearts.
Roots reach
below the diluvian chaos,
anchor us
to the terra firma
that is down there, 
somewhere –
we sense it
in our memories,
in our dreams.

after a painting by Greg Edmondson.
From my new collection The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press, 2020)...

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Listen to poem:

trapped dreaming of land
mal de mer was atrocious
force nine storm endured

time moved so slowly
frightful journey remembered
misery at sea

land ahoy! thank God
disembarking with relief
terra firma joy





''J'' Words 
Poetry Contest
Chosen Word: Journey
Sponsored
by: 
Constance La France 
07/03/2023




Pixabay Image by: ELG21...

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Look down on me and you'll see
A simple blur in natures mist
Looking down on my life's surround
Like it's particles, I'll soon drift

So silently in natures dark
I'll never be that feather
For somewhere against my fall
The whistling of me shall blether

As I descend to I
To Earths terra firma I mean
I pray I get to look up
To where the Branches of Life I've been.



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drinking champagne 
in a savage champaign
before I was born
after I died
through magnetic fields
spinning
charged
specially relative
that's why my name
is written on them
I wander north 
and south of course too
following the streaks
with exquisite corpse
and synapses behind
though with no sense
in a parallel universe
invisible
but still there
real or unreal
through land
and through nothing...

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