The UK has blood on its hands
...Slavery solidified the UK's place in the world
Earning recognition, power and control
The foundation of its empire
Built by slave labour
Stolen wealth sat in their banks
Invisible blood cov...
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Categories:
artefacts, africa, history, money, race,
Form: Free verse
ART APPRAISAL Y twinku
...
BRAQUE
cubist
creations
ROUSSEAU
variagated
vegetatioj
SCHWITTERS
assembled
artefacts
TWINKU a double word distich with integral title...
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Categories:
artefacts, art,
Form: Couplet
With my mother in mind
...#With_my_mother_in_mind
My heart aches but some distance hunch, clears the odds, thus far I have traveled, the little spark in that very distant, blows soft breeze to my weakling faith, that; your b...
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Categories:
artefacts, blessing, for her, giving,
Form: Free verse
1924 Everest expedition
...The broken remains of a mountain climber
several thousand feet from precipitous peak,
nature had attempted a fair burial with snow,
but some parts remained exposed to air,
the right leg had cross...
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Categories:
artefacts, courage, nature,
Form: Free verse
Id Actually Forgotten
...It’s the little things,
that remind me of my aunt,
and how in some unusual way,
she may still be alive,
if only in the memory,
a passing morning train,
tea bags splaying suddenly,
from unop...
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Categories:
artefacts, deep, devotion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Anyone
...
Facebook flight, a messenger pigeon
Each Pageant shuffles pretty women
Most admired tiara sparkle temporal
Sash off strategic take trick terminal
No need to tweet esteem over media
S...
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Categories:
artefacts, absence,
Form: Couplet
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
...Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but ma...
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Categories:
artefacts, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form: Narrative
Artefacts
...ARTEFACTS
recreated
as
a colossus
in time
using
dimensional depiction
extended
into reality
a glimpse
of the past
with
the possibility
of consolations
begetting beauty
melanchol...
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Categories:
artefacts, poetry,
Form: Verse
At Eventide
...i look up in the sky to see your essence
just to find out i have lost you
even though you were in a state of senescence
you should've remained you, the pretty you
i tend to find your invisible ...
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Categories:
artefacts, 11th grade, death, dream,
Form: Narrative
Weekend Recitation
...ODE TO A POEM
a made thing
this verbal construct
an event
in language
makers many
of fabrications
things of art
words&sounds
weighed
&valued
...
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Categories:
artefacts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Please Don'T Bury Me
...Please don't bury me
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023
Please don't bury me under that apple tree
So beautiful and abundant
It needs space for life to experience
Its shade and soft mossy feet
...
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Categories:
artefacts, death, farewell, funeral, in
Form: Free verse
Merlin the Magic Cat
...As the world tires and weariness begins to quietly enfold,
We will sleep and dream of what tomorrow beholds,
In the night,
a chorus of felines project a resolute purr,
Meow!
And in the light of...
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Categories:
artefacts, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Antiquities
...ANTIQITIES
transform
the
space
responding
to
mysterious
imagination
&
cultural
treasures
in
dispersed
artefacts
inscribed
example
or written
text
gleaned
or shaped
b...
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Categories:
artefacts, poetry,
Form: Other
Season of Myths
...SEASON OF MYTHS
Inspired, but unlike all the rest
Driven, with a burning fervour
So determined to begin a quest
Not as a dispassionate observer
Assumed the mantle of a sleuth
With research an...
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Categories:
artefacts, dedication, history,
Form: Rhyme
Disconnections
...DISCONNECTIONS
harmony order
reason &
beauty
&
incidentals
severed
by
upheavals
cerebral &
austere
a purveyor of
dimensions
to catalogue
&measure reveals
the obsessive
elabor...
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Categories:
artefacts, poetry,
Form: Other
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