Archaeology Poems - Poems about Archaeology

You dig because that's your job. You sink your hands in the mud and you spend time with the human ribs in the dirt. That time has washed away. You dig because you have to Because the professor told you to look "over there" and to "make yourself useful." So you do, and you dig. You sit side by side with...

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Writing a good poem Is like creating something exquisite Out of shards of random rubble. Inspiration is the mysterious impulse that moves a poet To articulate them into something wonderful. In other words, A poet is like an archaeologist, His poems are already inside him Like relics waiting to be dug up, Dusted off, And put on display. ...

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the archaeologist stood on the original floor above her was laughter loving and war the archaeologist stood at the foot of a pit beside broken lepers and gentlemen sit the archaeologist stood in the ditch of a moat where bloodied invaders and townsfolk would float the archaeologist stood to her knees among bones of all history's people in all of their homes...

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it was a day not unlike this one when an archaeologist … sore knees … paint brush … Friday fingernails held my earthen skull in his hands and spared me a thought his dirt-stained eyes filling my empty sockets and for a speck of epochal dirt neither of us heard the sun...

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Walking along a road, diagonally, through someone's house briefly and back out where there isn't a door across their vegetable patch and eventually over the bones of some buried unknowns. Cows are currently grazing in someone's hallway, while a tree grows in the kitchen. As I walk, I trample through a Roman bath where in a different time a rotund, well fed Roman...

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how long have we laid here side by side for an epoch's breath of starlight in a roving universe enchanted moments see a night of a million years until day slowly unearths us from our play but clinking and scuffing distant voices loudening muffled soon unmuffling to a crisp and a brightness the yellow hurts our eyes how dare they disturb us you are carefully wrapped and put...

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The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous, Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous About everything and anything, lounged around Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis The Parthenon. Archaeology Maintains that Greek Mythology Goes back to the Bronze age, A long ago historical stage. Statues have been discovered, displayed Or maintained of Zeus, the Mythological god. Imagine if mythology was true, As...

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People today are fat, not swift, So The Western Wall needs a lift* But here's the rub An ancient tub Saves each tear as temple gift *(lift="elevator")...

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Above, a few feet, From the gallery Archaeologists spotted the empty space Larger than the cross off M-68 by about 3 times But they aren't the only ones exploring a void Ancient like the pyramids is empty in the chest of the boys Digging up the artifacts of time Hidden in your lines That I write And when we collide It's like a land mine Hid...

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I am here on an archaeological quest, to satisfy many a curious mind's request for knowledge on antiques and artifacts of Egypt's long extinct historical facts, in treasured sands buried, like gold mines earnestly sought for in stories shrouded in mythology. With a large contingent just as curious as I, hardly daunted by curses, but with shoulders high, we went to the field,...

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ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD-TRIP JANUARY 29 TH 3011 - PART I In this windy coastal location the interesting thing is that 1000 years ago this unlikely spot was a huge city. Where we see the forests and swamps now - Was a large city which we’ve called simply...

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ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD-TRIP JANUARY 29 TH 3011 (PART II) (NOTE: If you have not already read PART I, then do so before you read this) Though the buildings are gone long ago Our diggings in the places we felt were the main city Have...

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