Best Ancients Poems


The Tongue of Ancients

I speak
Though words are far.
In the tongue of ancients,
Here shall I abide in love.
I sing

The Glory of Ancients

the birth of an infant
the ancient kingdom celebrates
gentle gift of life

man moved ahead
kingdom no more survived
families break up

new nuclear family
birth and death forever here
just seem to pass by

when death knocks on the door
realisation slides in
of the glory of ancients

Kessi Awendo, Certain Affairs Fay, Charms street Affair

A breeze of super heated love the ancients called it
At the forth angle trumped up charges bemoan you
Twas a case of of an eagle eating a chic..... cry folly
Cry folly for Roy was as is his usual MO a by passer
How can you let her use you're premises yet no pay..
Are you Roi for real threatened the pistol service Bro
Yes you are our Bro Intelligence son is you're not..
Not uttered as Kaayan and by it a pointed index mark
Where did the fingerlings who abide by fingering... Eh
Leave a Mark that Roi now you have to be roasted..
The wheels of justice grind and groan in the mean time
Co-Optation has never been sur-judged as a justice means
In Esoteric font Roi Fold you're wings.. Let chics Be..
Who said you have to stay in the form of the Eagle
A Leopard you are an African Black Panthre' On My Mark.


We Are the Ancients

The Fermi Paradox: Where is everyone?
The Universe is nearly 14 billion years old say those in the know.
Enough time to populate our galaxy they say!
But is this really so?
The elements in our bodies were created in the stars,
blasted into space when they died and exploded.
How long did that take?
The elements then regrouped to form second generation stars to repeat the process.
How long would that take?
Finally enough of what makes our bodies was created.
Planets then formed filled with the materials to create life.
How long does that take?
How many generations of stars to make?
Our sun will die at 10 billion years of age.
It’s now 5 billon years old.
How many generations of stars were needed for us?
We just might be the first.
We just might be the ancients!
© Jg Collins  Create an image from this poem.

A Cue From Ancients of Days

Look up to the sky
take a look at the boldness of the sun
behold the brightness of the stars
they hold no grudges
they come, they shine
for you, for me:
caucasian, black or orientals

Look up at the sky
See the beauty of the moon
it illuminates prison as well palace
they no know boundary nor landmark

hear the rhytm of the rains
it beats the ghetto and the golden city
see its water flows
linking the mosques and the churches
they hold no sentiments nor  bias

then look at  yourself
and I myself
and together ourselves
and take a cue from
the ancients of days.

Astoneyhenge

a carvery the sadistical it plough the salt on pewter it swords poles, rods, 
it makes that satic it means a Conan, it twilight it scourges, it raid the emcamp it ask not
a baby humanity it ask not in eye, it had it gouged out
it asked the arm torn off it asked the nimrouiB Khan it asked it carried the a pole  50foot og long it made

it decapitated its own men women, child has thrown o'er these off a wall, 10s oh thousands
i sleuth it winds, it smouldered they ofh it made decapitated, a head oh a stick, do tell oh the inge 
it taught og these own it asked oh me taught of the body og 

women, i asked it Sorceri it Sargent it ask og me   how is it the sticks, here is Herod, it me plough how we did meek it slaughtered
be me it taugh a central og it body part removal made a fistula
feed feel not it make of a feminine it made she, it stolen her it made i 

me slouch a i a child is made a man,  he Wilders the post
be k be known it  hunted humanity it body become of apple


The Nihilist - Two: a Prayer To the Ancients

Knee-bones sunk in wet twilight soil,
  Welded hands in pagan prayer,
Stones sacrificial once draped in blood
  And ghosts of what was slaughtered there.
Hear the beseeching winds of time
  Carry the words from lips a-trembling,
Usher the arcane dichotomy aloft,
  Ciphers of thought from a mind dissembling.
When all of faith and hope expire
  Along with the dogma of Christian sons,
Primitive pharmacy, druidic roots
  Hurl prayers unto the ancient ones.
Hear, oh keepers of the stones,
  Sentinels of the charnel ground,
Return to me the source of grief,
  Return her to me unbound.
Lightning cracked and thunder drummed,
  The old gods awoke, reconceived,
A prayer to the ancients, fire and bone,
  By their black souls received…
© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Amazing Ancients

Are we really disputing beliefs of the past
Evolution makes us think we have surpassed
Basic skills back then
We surely do transcend
But their abilities were amazing and really vast

Disrobing the Flesh of Ancients

Disrobing the flesh of ancients
In a continuous hot pursuit

A growing embryo
Spreading into the ether
The ionized atmosphere 
With contant cosmic outpouring 

The last tenet
Of man's unbridled elite
Casting his instruments
Proding stardust for clues
Yet all analysis recedes
When a grand synthesis sweeps
A human life course
Forever resonating with the truth

The Ancients

It's my last day with the old giants
 In mourning I hike the lost trails,
 sniffing the aroma of the bark,
 that cinnamon of the forest
 Under tepees of wood
 in a membrane of shadows,
 I stalk the earth, its mammal traces,
 its elusive tracks,
 to sit on a fallen log
 where spiders macramé,
 moss sloping to my knees
 unaware of invisibles within,
 grubbing in their tunnels
 A lizard taps my foot,
 responding, I muse to its touch,
 my thoughts like Indian visions,
 And when daylight mushrooms into night,
 and an owl hoots from cedar,
 I still sit with a lizard on my shoe
 Huddled with the ancients of the woods

The Ancients

It's my last day with the old giants
 In mourning I hike the lost trails,
 sniffing the aroma of the bark,
 that cinnamon of the forest
 Under tepees of wood
 in a membrane of shadows,
 I stalk the earth, its mammal traces,
 its elusive tracks,
 to sit on a fallen log
 where spiders macramé,
 moss sloping to my knees
 unaware of invisibles within,
 grubbing in their tunnels
 A lizard taps my foot,
 responding, I muse to its touch,
 my thoughts like Indian visions,
 And when daylight mushrooms into night,
 and an owl hoots from cedar,
 I still sit with a lizard on my shoe
 Huddled with the ancients of the woods

Premium Member Symbols for the Ancients and Us

    
        Shecht and eat the Paschal lamb
        Destroy the ‘no-gods’ of Canaan and Ham
    
        Break the middle matzo, hide half away
        Harbinger of a now-hidden day

        Chew and swallow the bitters as a reminder
        To treat the stranger amongst you kinder



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     Notes:
       'Shecht- means 'kosher-kill' an animal
       'Paschal lamb' - one of the 'no-gods' of Egypt 
       'Canaan and Ham' - idolaters
          Ham was Noah's son, ancestor of Egyptian Kings
          Canaan was Ham's son

Ancients

a thousand sheddings

of my skin

finally

brought me into

the trajectory

of the maze

zooming

between

humanity's haze

ancients call to me

wanting to be set free

to fly along the wind

to swim in the azure sea

rising from my soul

they scream for release

in my blood they flow

the ancient songs of old

I brave their feircesome cold

to step

where they have stepped

a millena ago

primal drumbeats

deafen me

all around

their ghosts I see

rising from

death's black sea

imparting their wisdom

to those who seek (C)MJR

Premium Member Neolithic Man

Reflecting on Stonehenge
Ancient mysteries
Neolithic man left behind
Their enlightened thought suggests
heaven and earth are twin powers
harnessed through astronomy 
Standing stones silent witness.

Sunrise, sunset, and solstice
Natural chronometer 
heaven's perpetual pulse
Celebrations long since dead
Echoes muted
Excavations ongoing
hypothesis abounding.

Abiding mystery
What drove this undertaking?
How was knowledge obtained?
Science of astronomy
was remote truth for ancients
Removed from Sailsbury Plain
other henges' ~ Question why?


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