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Best Antiquities Poems

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Premium Member The Collector
I am a hoarder of antiquities,
offering longevity to ephemera.
Obsessed with an insatiable 
urge for accumulation
I fill every available nook 
stacking layer upon layer
of emotional possessions…...

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Categories: antiquities, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pleasures of Reading
It pleasures me
That she reads me
Inside her serenity
Parked on our bench of antiquities

I, whom gazes over there at her,
Later in the dusk of candlelight
Shall remove...

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Categories: antiquities, art, beauty, desire, image,
Form: Free verse
House of the Tragic Poet
Two thousand years, a tragedy is past
Yet it's history still leaves us aghast.

On a night, dreadfully dark
A  volcano erupted, leaving it's historical mark

Mount Vesuvius...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antiquities, city, house,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Unmasking the Script
In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Categories: antiquities, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: antiquities, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse



A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: antiquities, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burning
Islam Burning


In deep purple flame
Stapled to the cross
While the peasants yell below
Demon demon demon
Black flags rise
Hearts fail to beat
Humanity has lost this score
The axe swings...

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Categories: antiquities, allah, dog, eulogy, evil,
Form: Light Verse
Sun Thief
Once upon a time, there lived a boy called Simon.
He was an ordinary boy who did what ordinary nine year old
boys do: collecting bugs and...

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Categories: antiquities, conflict, fantasy, imagery, mystery,
Form: Narrative
The Devil's Advocate
Your honor I wish to state, with utmost rhapsody before the crescent azure, that my client is as white as a Lilly
was it fare that...

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Categories: antiquities, bereavement, dedication, forgiveness, life,
Form: I do not know?
The Train To the Paradise
On the death bed for cessation, a platform free from brawl, 
I perceive in peace my debilitating breath.
And give off a brief one as I...

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Categories: antiquities, desire, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Images of Italy
Wandering on timeworn cobbled streets, 
                   ...

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Categories: antiquities, beauty, travel, , In
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Moon Frogs
Amphibian antiquities from the age of normalcy 
Pathologically festive creatures of the night
Verdant phosphor moon frogs bark their insistent mating call
Adorned with talismans, chanting mantras...

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Categories: antiquities, nature, night, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dream Vacation
My Dream Vacation

                  To return once more to...

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Categories: antiquities, imagery, travel, vacation,
Form: Imagism
Sweet Just the Way I Like It
Sweet Just the Way I Like It

you're a genius she moaned
there can only be so much money in circulation
he replied halfheartedly fingering her abacus
the moon...

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Categories: antiquities, angst, conflict, how i
Form: Free verse
Bring Brring Telephone Calling
'BRRRING BRRRING' said the telephone

“Oh hello” said the wide viewfinder to the telephone. “How are you today?” The telephone fell silent. Very silent. It had...

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Categories: antiquities, bangla, baptism, baseball, beach,
Form: I do not know?

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