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Best Cuneiform Poems

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Premium Member Why Bother
The clock chastises me,
as painted petals bloom brilliance
in illuminated wonder that attempts 
escape from the hidden crevices
deep within my beleaguered mind.

The beauty I seek is...

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Categories: cuneiform, how i feel, humor,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Frequency
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately 

that which...

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Categories: cuneiform, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The God Complex
“The God Complex”



His face imprinted 
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words

like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds

once-in-a-while...

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Categories: cuneiform, god, i am, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Lie
Long has it been maintained,
writing sprang from economic drive and need,
seeing as the cuneiform tablets
were soon interpreted with worldly eyes.

But economics is a stylus scratching...

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Categories: cuneiform, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To My Pen
My dear incredible pen,
you are the pinnacle of writing instruments! Looking refined with your elegant ebony shaft and gold-filagree trim, you are a true technological...

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Categories: cuneiform, character, fantasy, feelings, funny
Form: Ode



Premium Member The Poetess
There lives with-in, a grande dame fair,
goddess of many talents rare.
Yet, humble in her own shy way,
she weaves her words without delay, beyond compare.

You might...

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Categories: cuneiform, art, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Phoenix Dreams In the Realm of Crows
“Phoenix Dreams in the Realm of Crows” 

wake up 
shake up 
kaleidoscope girl

jigsaw
see saw 
fit the pieces

she 
another world
away 

the in-betweeen
flows easily
through the veil

safe harbour...

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Categories: cuneiform, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Book of Changes


"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the...

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Categories: cuneiform, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Ash Wednesday
Ashes of humanity
Scattered and lingered in hearts of purity
Hallowed and spirited within the psyche of infinity

Weaving with man's joy and sorrows
Entwined with lattices of honey...

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Categories: cuneiform, spiritual,
Form: Acrostic
Lego Cities
Lego Cities
  
Square blocked infrastructures formed from a meddling mind
engineered and fused together with sticky grape popsicle fingers
the Lego Babylon rises with its hanging...

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Categories: cuneiform, childhood,
Form: Light Verse
Restless Natives
Creative Native, quite contemplative-
he draws on walls in ancient caves.
So Hieroglyphic speculative:
Cuneiform curses mark mummy graves.

On land the sand, the grains of Man-
exoplated, protective shells.
A...

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Categories: cuneiform, boat, journey, ocean,
Form: Sonnet
Love Your Goldfish As Yourself
Feed your goldfish before you leave 
Love them as you love yourself
The bible tells us all fish are created equal 

Some people prefer baby guppies
Because...

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Categories: cuneiform, abuse, education, fish, health,
Form: Free verse
The Needle House
The Needle’s House
 Waiting For the Third Time Out
 Arabic Poem by: Salah Hassan *
 Translated into English by:
 Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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Between me...

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Categories: cuneiform,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Culmination Revisited
Concentric constellations of cosmic
consciousness catapult cuneiform
cubi-calm charismatics, creating
crystalline coloured corridors
casually camouflaged, commanding
cyclic, cryptic compassion calling cards.
Center court connectives calculate
comparable crying conniptions calling
circus cellular cumulative consolidations.

CAUTION:...

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Categories: cuneiform, adventure, cool, divorce, growth,
Form: Alliteration
Extensions of the Girl
She was eminently qualified in numbers  
Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects  
Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul
Religion guided...

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Categories: cuneiform, adventure, celebrity, history, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things