Matthew Anish Poet Blank verse

Of Ancient Rulers and Other Things

Amidst the artifacts
   of ancient rulers 
One feels the weight 
   of history 
The boundaries of time 
   give way 
and forgotten empires
    are alive once more 
The tombs are filled 
    with magnificent 
items 
  to speed the deceased to 
a better world 
There will come a 
    time 
When our civilization 
   shall fall 
Future generations 
   will look back upon 
    our artifacts 
And feel what we feel now 
The feeling of the river of time 
As it flows on and on 
Beneath our very feet

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Robert Pettit February 16, 2014 at 11:09 PM So many civilizations have come and gone through the millenia. Perhaps ten thousand years from now, some of our personal belongings will be on exhibit in a museum. Nice write. Check out your thirteenth line: Did you really mean "better" instead of "batter"? I have sent you soup mail.

Chris G. Vaillancourt January 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM Well done and rich with metaphor and simile.

Jack Horne January 12, 2014 at 4:09 PM this is awesome - read it twice

Andrea Dietrich January 11, 2014 at 12:34 AM Alas, the flow of history. It sure makes us feel a tinge of sadness knowing one day "we" will be the artifacts!

Andrea Dietrich January 11, 2014 at 12:33 AM Matt, my earth/water poem was not shape or concrete. All etheree poems look that way because they decrease one syllable per line. I am not good with shape poetry. I think it helps to be savvy with computers to make shapes with your words!! Let me read your poem now.

Demetrios Trifiatis January 10, 2014 at 6:51 PM Profound thus though provoking! Well written!

Cherl Dunn January 10, 2014 at 4:25 PM Yes i wrote the poem mystic rose about our fellow souper, your poem above is a very truthful work, i love it's realism here with the lines, and my thought after reading it i agree our civiliation will fall but what legacy will we leave behind. cheri

Syam Madappattu January 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM Well written..its a coincidence that my new poem also deals with history.Thanks for dropping by...Syam