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Homespun globe circumnavigating lonesome planet

            Finding refuge in secluded den

                        Perusing travelogues bound multicolored atlases

                                    Whale of Telltale library classics

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Earthborn into secure landlocked circumstance

            Lubbers faraway from oceans favoring

                         Freshwater lakes over saltern fishpond

                                    Yellow-belly sunfish to killer sharks

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Words cannot express wondrous vastitude

            Rearranged givens craving subterranean exploration

                        Needful privacy indulging familiar comforts

                                    Trailblazer adventures dusted off restacked

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Avoiding nauseous seasickness distressing travail

            Stay-at-homestead safeguards never venturing beyond

                        Escaping through timeworn bookworm passages

                                    National Geographic vainglorious naked denials

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Nacreous pearly shells forced open

            Exposing ordinary grain of sand

                        Figure 8 hourglass flipped downside-up

                                    Demagnetized compass pointing everyplace else

 

PoeArtry by Charles Frederickson and Saknarin Chinayote