Artefacts Poems

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

Premium MemberART APPRAISAL Y twinku

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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

Premium Member1924 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

Premium MemberId 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


Premium MemberAnyone

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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

Premium MemberRum 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

Premium MemberArtefacts

...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

Premium MemberWeekend 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

Premium MemberAntiquities

...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

Premium MemberDisconnections

...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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