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there is a crack in everything that’s where the light gets in
or eternal waters to soak up sorrow and flood fertile grounds

solid meaningful foundations

at least and at last he did not submerge his pain in distilled spirits
instead took a path and commitment to a spiritual solution

a seeker one day at a time

when he finally surrendered

Categories: terracotta, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Terracotta

Relaxing
brown tiles
beautiful

Categories: terracotta, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haiku

The Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army is the most amazing discovery ever 
Carved in 210 BC, consisting of 8000 warriors, a creation so clever
What is so totally amazing
An accomplishment so spirit raising
How it was achieved is a mystery, an amazing endeavour

Categories: terracotta, fantasy,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Terracotta Ocher

Orangey,
burnt almond hues
color
the horizon;
as Sol's chariot
like a spent
ember,
glows amber;
inking
infinite
ice crystals
with a coppery
terracotta ocher;
as
it arches and sets.

Categories: terracotta, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Verse

The Terracotta Army

We drove all day on dusty roads to Xian
in the Shaanxi province
to see the clay men.

The army is deployed in large archaeological pits.
Our guide, a Chinese beauty, marshals us from the front
like any good general.
Her voice is a dulcet lagoon
in this desiccated place.
We all notice that her silk cheongsam
clings to her embroidered,
peach of a bottom.

The

Categories: terracotta, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Persona Non Grata That Is Terracotta

Persona non Grata That Is Terracotta 

Seems to be persona non grata,
Having a head that is terracotta;
Lump of lard,
And head hard;
Likes sandwich cheese with tomato.

Jim Horn

Categories: terracotta, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army is the most amazing discovery ever 
Carved in 210 BC, consisting of 8000 warriors, a creation so clever
What is so totally amazing
An accomplishment so spirit raising
How it was achieved is a mystery, a totally amazing endeavour

Categories: terracotta, history,
Form: Limerick

Terracotta - Collaboration With Chris Green

Alabaster pillars
reach to heights I’ve never known
Marble indentations
feed the facets which have grown
Carved before the spectacle
that time forgot to keep
Oh these ancient sites I find
my mind decides to reap

Sculpted statues stand there
looking down with faces stern
Painted garments scaled off
overgrown by grass and fern
Dwarved I dwell among the mute
no figments of my mind
Looking at me with

Categories: terracotta, beautiful, imagery, mystery, myth,
Form: Quatrain

Terracotta

Bits of our hearts~
Given with ease~
The terracotta~
Crumbling and unwanted~
Chained gates~
No fashioned keys~ 
©2016_ Andrea Travis

Categories: terracotta, heart,
Form: Free verse

Terracotta Oil Lamp

Terracotta oil lamp, nearly two millennia balanced in the palm of my hand
An archaic flashlight for some Mesopotamian householder
Hands over centuries transferring it from one owner to the next
And to think that in its newest state, a sleepy flame from its spout
Cast a glow upon a bed, a table, a wife’s face, a scroll or

Categories: terracotta, history, home, life, light,
Form: Free verse