Earl Schumacker Poet Free verse

Ancient Time Collapse

Ancient Time Collapse 

Ancient time collapsed on mirrored distances
Taking history, its ripples, down in the sand
Lost in the reflected wide eyes of children looking up
They will never know what time it is

Archeologists use the suns surveillance guidance system 

Sextants by sea employed, sojourning to history
Compass by land, to point the way more solidly 
Tools help them seek the depths to find their level
To shed light on missing times and parts gone dark

Sun fills the void once opened on the past
Apparently there is not enough light in the sky
Clearly there is not enough sight in the universe
To find what they are looking for

Exposing oceans of rocks and sand 
Not much more

Mysteries undertaken in the making of the dig
Scientists unearth, burn, work, bake under sun
Nothing found underground can live forever buried
Mixed together, former human parts with sand, comingling there
Winds grind and blow the bones around about the rocks
Exposed on surface, air turns remnants to powder, so everything is fine

Mirrored in the distances are facts and fiction
Hollow words that fell through cracks 
Collapsed with long gone columns
Not so solid at this hour

What stories history could tell us if we reassembled ancient artifacts
Separated them, along with sand and stone and bones 
Still on the most wanted list of history 
Forgotten and unknown

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Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser January 31, 2015 at 8:40 AM You really are great with free verse.. :) i like this also but i have some problems on cutting sentences.. :) I love what you did it here.... powerful and wow in every way!!! I esp like the stanza that has sun in it and the 3rd stanza that displays man innate curiosity! :) and the word fine in the end makes the whole paragraph end in a softer tone. :) Earl Schumacker January 31, 2015 at 10:21 AM Hi Olive, Thank you so much for all of your insights and comments. I'm glad you enjoyed it. As authors, you and I are free to experiment with language, structure and pretty much everything in and out of the universe. If someone ever revoked my poetic license I would simply create a new one out of thin air. I hope you also feel as free with your great language skills Olive when you create. Have a great week end. Take care. Earl