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Terra Firma Poems - Poems about Terra Firma

On Terra Firma In ITQ

The ocean's a drum fault and sheer;
to me, breakout from dark, this sphere,
that the sunk water lapsing veers —
hours of footprints away from here,

Missing this density timeless 
with each sanddollar I will wreck,
for today I'm also in shreds — 
in the foam, this form, it lays death.

Like as the deep deep, her I love,
and I
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Categories: terra firma, death, grave, introspection, kiss,
Form: Quatorzain

Land

The terra firma
A domain which teems with life.
Sans it, landbound die.
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Categories: terra firma, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium MemberTerra Firma

Terra Firma 
David J Walker

I
How big a place must Eden be
Its borders unknown 
Its politics not on display
Its laws kept by passing clouds 
Each from the lips of whispered scripture

The peacock's song can be heard 
Under the canopy of a transplanted forest
Of oak and birch where the 

Cock will remain as long as the
Hen is
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Categories: terra firma, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTerra Firma Truths - a Haiku

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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Categories: terra firma, adventure, analogy, appreciation, heaven,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTerra Firma

When both my feet don’t touch the ground
Lightheadedness proves overwhelming
Turbulent thoughts going while coming
They swirl about me round and round

Cloaked in black a moonless night
The howling dreadful spiteful wind prevails
Spellbound drags me over hills and vales
Like a ragdoll in the midst of a bullfight

Trails of lingering spirit ghouls
Hover over murky haze of mistiness
Harassing in dark
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Categories: terra firma, dark, fear, grief, night,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen

“The Remaining”

PROLOGUE:  “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”


"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"


Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her dream, “The Remaining”
She called Her hell, “The Bitumen Road”.
It was a burning, eternally long blistering hot road,
Fumes of steaming asphalt,
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Categories: terra firma, angel, daughter, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTerra Firma

(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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Categories: terra firma, earth,
Form: Tanka

Terra Firma

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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Categories: terra firma, dream, imagery, philosophy, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Terra Firma

sunset mocks rice fields
    soil embraced by widow weeds
        life source diminished
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Categories: terra firma, nature,
Form: Haiku

Terra Firma

Back on terra firma.
Solid ground beneath my feet.
Self confidence returned.
No longer inept.

Back on terra firma.
And Daddy's little girl.
Wise-cracking ball breaker.
Tongue lash ready to unfurl.

Back on terra firma.
Step back and let me pass.
I'm in a hurry to catch up.
With my past, at last.

Back on terra firma.
Confidently supreme.
Blessed with so many talents.
It makes me want to scream.

Thank
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Categories: terra firma, character,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberTerra Firma

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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Categories: terra firma, life,
Form: Rhyme

Terra Firma

Earth playing in space.
Rolling over and over.
Sunrise, sunset, spin!
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Categories: terra firma, nature, science, time
Form: Haiku

Terra-Firma

This chain of rusted iron and fallen tears is strung together,
forged of poorly tempered links,
cast into the water untimely, 
the choices called to account.

There is no jury for decision,
no panel for propriety or loyalty,
and that metal is riddled with holes throughout,
holes that hold steady between the weak iron,
holes which time will fade.

Oxidation slowly burns away
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Categories: terra firma, time
Form: Free verse

Terra Firma

War and Peace collide in vain
Mankind will suffer anguish and pain

As the earth warms up through ignorance and greed
One day we'll find it hard to feed

In case you'd forgotton we're all the same race
If not in religion but surely in faith

Father daughter son and mother
Why do we find it so hard to love one another

This
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Categories: terra firma, father daughter, hope, day,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberTerra Firma

They grazed their sheep upon my grass
So many centuries in the past

In feudal times,a monastery of hope
'Til King Henry divorced the Pope

In later times upon my hill
They set a smock windmill

As Victoria came on her throne
A brewery made this site its own

Later in more social times, a public bath
In which poor folk cleansed at my
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Categories: terra firma, history, places,
Form: Personification

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