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Terraced Poems - Poems about Terraced

Premium MemberGRANDPAS PATH

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Our cabin in North Carolina was built by Deborah’s mom and dad in 1983…
It rests on the side of a mountain…nestled in among the trees.

When Deborah’s dad was alive he had a garden terraced off ...
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Categories: terraced, grandfather, memory,
Form: Rhyme

MOTHERS DAY CARD

...Poetry Soup Premiere Contest winner
MOTHER'S DAY poetry contest sponsored by Benjamin Bartley, April 2025

Morning starts early, before it gets light
Opening cupboards, to see what’...
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Categories: terraced, 10th grade, children, morning,
Form: Sonnet



Two Worlds

...Laboured breaths
with each strenuous uphill step,
taking in the ancient spirits
from an ancient world
when the earth was venerated.
Every stride taken prompts visions of 
the Chaquis who journi...
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Categories: terraced, journey, spiritual, travel,
Form: Free verse

the rich and my English brother

...My English Brother and the Rich
I find it impossible to be envious of the wealthy, buying superyachts one bigger than the other, when they get seasick at the thought of sailing out to sea
Marrying ...
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Categories: terraced, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: ABC

An elegy for innocence

...Historically the books are written by a well-known writer 

The characters are formed to choose the sense of flight or fighter 

The library of the mind stows away the facts from the fiction 

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Categories: terraced, break up, bullying, deep,
Form: Rhyme



Blue Collar, White Collar

...Blue collar school,
Blue collar play,
Blue collar children,
Blue collar praise,
Blue collar words,
Blue collar phrased,
Blue collar work,
Blue collar pay,
Blue collar union,
Blue collar say,...
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Categories: terraced, children, day, house, night,
Form: Rhyme

Another Midnight Massacre

...All through wee hours of the morning
Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning
And the track road leading into Amurum forest
Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced
Searching into sun...
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Categories: terraced, violence, war,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberPearl of the Orient

...Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by the south China Sea, 
There...
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Categories: terraced, beautiful, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Derailed

...Cups on their hooks rattle
the train rumbles through the town
icebergs crack and fall off the roof,
they crash through two stories of chilled air.

Dad heaves himself off the sofa,
empty plate ...
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Categories: terraced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhen I Was Ten

...Now in my time echoes
  I remember then
  my full days in a life
  when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow 
  much greater 
  at the gates of Eden
and its dormant crater.

We’d climb its he...
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Categories: terraced, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Dream Vacation

...My Dream Vacation

                  To return once more to Italy where the forgotten places
                    still remain in harmony, echoing, antiquities graces.

                    A priv...
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Categories: terraced, imagery, travel, vacation,
Form: Imagism

Sweet Juice and Young Bones

...Because today my hands
started to unravel the wires
of the telephone pole, the ones
in the middle of the street 
connecting terraced homes together.
Familiar facades showing familiar window,
sh...
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Categories: terraced, break up, moving on,
Form: Free verse

1 The Early Years

...1. THE EARLY YEARS

It was Nineteen fifty seven, that’s the year that I was born
It was in a northern town of England, one early January morn
I thought I’d be an only child, with no-one else but ...
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Categories: terraced, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Gleams

...heron eyes
over the green shallows
catching fire in a thimble of time
steely kamikaze plunge
a divine wind catching
gleaming stiletto
bright day spray
silver tail hoisted into gantry neck
loo...
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Categories: terraced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnticipating Spring

...Tiny crocuses soon peep their purple heads
Above the lingering pale green foliage
In my upper yard's terraced flowering beds
Robins on my lawn will hungrily forage
Building their sturdy nests out...
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Categories: terraced, appreciation, spring,
Form: Ottava rima

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