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Subduction Poems - Poems about Subduction


The Discarded, The Forgotten
...I am accustomed to spitting out bones of my prisoners, not witnessing their escape. I hear whales whistle their stoic dirges as I descend—they know the doomed are villains and freedom is promised to ......

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Categories: subduction, allegory, angel, character, confidence,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Fissures and Collisions
...earthquakes and fissures routinely affect politics and relationships as they act on the earth's crust tectonic plates clash in subduction zones they separate at divergent boundaries  a quake s......

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Categories: subduction, earth, philosophy, political, relationship,
Form: Suzette Prime



Premium Member Wide-Eyed Children
...mother star beams as she beholds her errant brood six diverse, rocky planets the innermost, a dense, two-faced, frosty furnace the outermost, pulverised much interfered with by a jovial n......

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Categories: subduction, children, innocence, planet, uplifting,
Form: Verse
The Power of Water
...“Don’t turn your back on the water...” my grandmother told me as I skimmed stones across the tiny ripples of rock pools. Small scaly creatures and stones sliced toes like knives but we were full ......

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Categories: subduction, family,
Form: Free verse
Luxuriating Showering On a Cold Winter Day
...Despite emotional, financial, grammatical... any woe that doth assail whereat early in the morning until late at night tub bail sinking craft, not possible (essentially 24/7), I bewail, whe......

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Categories: subduction, 7th grade, angst, bereavement,
Form: Bio



No Grip
...Life melting around my fingers Only memories are left to linger Unconditional love, detrimental cost Forever out of reach Forever is it lost? A quest for once forgotten Only numbness - vaccin......

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Categories: subduction, absence, grief, life, lost,
Form: ABC
Orogeny
...Subduction continental contact thrusting and folding Seismic kiss of an orogeny......

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Categories: subduction, earth, nature, world,
Form: Cinquain
Before the Night Is Over (He's Coming Back) Pt.2
...Well my friend, my conscience would not allow me the pleasure. The pleasure not to report the news that I treasure. That as I open the book, the book full of new's, a b......

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Categories: subduction, black african american, caregiving,
Form: Quatrain
Deserted
...In the midst of a forty-five degree silicate sea Winds carry arid mists Blinding unprotected eyes Burying the unsuspecting Hard waves break on the dunes Precipitating salty tears with cruel iron......

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Categories: subduction, love
Form: Free verse

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