Cali is a descendent of Babylonians
She practices necromancy
conjuring spirits of her ancestors
her rituals and spells are world-renown
bullies who misunderstand despise her
they fear her visions and insights
she often foretells what comes to be
This terrifies those who cannot
Ignorance often courts violence.
Cali’s spiritual guides warn her of the bullies
She escapes their ignorant pitchforks
Praying for their spiritual enlightenment
Categories:
babylonians, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
No other people has endured the constant persecution
3,330 years of constant suffering
From the Egyptian Pharaohs' enslavement and buffeting
down through 20th and 21st century executions
Yet we Jews are still here, still strong in our faith
Where are the Egyptians with their pyramids tall
The Babylonians and Romans, not to mention Gaul
We've outlasted them somehow, survived them all
Our secret is the Torah, given at Sinai to Moses
We chose Him, so He chose us ~
over those who oppose us
Categories:
babylonians, god, history, irony, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Contested Crossroads
By Mark D. Stucky
On a battleground bloodied across millennia,
on a compact land bridge spanning continents and gods…
Canaanites, Philistines, and Hebrews, oh my!
Israelites, Judeans, and Samaritans, oh my!
Babylonians, Persians, and Romans, oh my!
Jews, Muslims, and Crusaders, oh my!
Turks, Brits, and Zionists, oh my!
Palestinians, Israelis, and others, oh my!
So many clashing claims to such a small strip of land.
So much religious, political, and ethnic strife.
So much cursing, contempt, and conflict.
So much destruction, death, and despair.
So many words of unfulfilled prayers.
So little hope for permanent peace?
(See also my poems “Hate Vacuuming” and “Bringing Heaven to Earth.”)
(Photo by Shahar Weinstein on Pexels.com.)
Categories:
babylonians, conflict, hate, political, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Galactic spectacle, we name you
For a Greek mythic giant.
You exist in mythic realms of space
Dwarfing our Milky Way,
The largest yet known of your kind.
We behold your bygone light,
Your radio signal artifacts now only just
Arriving from what you were
Three billion years ago.
So humble our instruments for
Detecting you,
so simple our data collection
about you.
Gargantuan star ellipse drifting and yawning in
Vacuous void.
A hosting galaxy, embedded in cosmic web strands,
Two hundred forty billion times
The size of the Sun,
With a massive black hole nucleus,
Four hundred million times
The size of the Sun.
We measure and record like
Ancient Babylonians,
And still, no one comprehends.
Categories:
babylonians, light, myth, science, space,
Form: Free verse
To Babylonians, Ptolemy (and me),
The night sky was a glittering sea.
They called them all stars
But (including Mars)
These “observers” were startled to see…
That charting their heavenly courses
And imagining bears, crabs and horses
They moved thru the seasons
But for confounding reasons
Some obeyed differing forces.
They called them “Wandering Stars”.
(We know planets are now what they are.)
But since we conquered the moon,
Who’d have thought that so soon,
From THEIR faces we'd look back at ours.
So transmission lag notwithstanding,
The space craft survived thru its landing,
But a plan to research
From an aerial perch
Was at one time beyond understanding.
Over six years a drone flight was planned.
Could it take off and land on command?
NASA asked it to fly
And did it comply?
TODAY HISTORY WITNESSED FIRSTHAND!
wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)
Categories:
babylonians, flying, history, planet, sky,
Form: Limerick
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Now, historians say the Babylonians invented soap in 2800 B.C.E
Water, alkali and cassia oil ~ formula of hope in the 21st century
Categories:
babylonians, health, history, science,
Form: Epigram
Written Not To Be Read
> It was before it was prophecied for what to prophecy the prophets dint exit but the prophecy like air we our lungs to it infrate so did it exist the dinosaurs extinct platypus indigenous but it infinity Isaac newton couldn't do the math today I eat n sleep to it not yet prophecied drink and wake to it only linguists language the babylonians ciphered we can't understand so I simplify it to don't speak of the unknown if the known you dnt know
Categories:
babylonians, dark,
Form: ABC
Skyscrapers of glass
and steel with spiky spires rise
over the brick houses
covered by their wide shadows.
The powerful amber sun
over the Equinox
makes them glisten
as if they were cathedrals
in which dwells
a pretentious god,
not the God I worship.
Compared to them
we are small ants crawling,
frightened by their metrical structures
that are more awesome than
the impressive Pyramids of Egypt
scorched by the intense heat.
If the deluded Babylonians
couldn't reach Heaven,
could we? Doesn't it still seem
a paradoxial concept?
Beyond the atmosphere,
there are many Heavens
once thought to be the dwelling
of the mythical and belligerent gods
who fought with the rebellious mortals.
Is our God in a similar place,
or does He dwell in each believer's heart?
Mine has no heaven, no mystical throne;
He is the only Omnipotent God
who reproves and chastens, but also loves.
Find yours not looking above,
but in the virtuous deeds you must do daily.
Written on 4/26/ 2016
Categories:
babylonians, bible, conflict, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
THE HINGE OF HISTORY
The hinge of history swings in all directions
As the happenings of the past are written down.
Out of all that has occurred since man's beginnings,
Less has been recorded than waits to be found.
Babylonians kept chronicles of history,
Hebrews wrote the past as a dramatic story.
Greeks had no faith in the future at all,
Believing mans repeated errors doom his glory.
Christians added a new dimension to history,
Looking forward to Christ’s return to earth.
An on going drama involving man and God,
Believing all are created of equal worth.
Some have asked why must we study history;
It just encourages us to live in the past.
When we forget history we repeat its mistakes,
As the outcome of humanity is cast.
By Tom Zart
Categories:
babylonians, adventure, death, faith, history,
Form: ABC
Through the will of God
I surrender
I submit to thee
As we pray for the Babylonians
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
I am old
crippled and dying of thirst
I will give thee
My last drop of water
I walk by faith
Categories:
babylonians, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse