Best Excavating Poems

People of faith survived,
Although thousands had perished
The moment to unearth Washington’s history arrived
Great expectations had been nourished
Souls sought remains of a nation cherished

Tales handed down hadn’t explained
How a once-great civilization fell
Why so few remained
Excavating the White House went well
But beneath it was a strange holding...

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By the sour lemon light
through dusty shafts
and cavernous gulfs of darkness for miles,
she crouched.
Examining the find 
with a paintbrush, not for painting,
but for delicately brushing away debris.
A find such as this coiled shivers 
'round her metal spine.
Shivers of the magnitude of discovery.
Shivers filled with memories...

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Writing, Committed Excavating
Bare Notions, Ruminations,
Clothed to Deckout Summations,
Disinterring Buried Pebbles to Creations!...

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THE CRADLE OF MANKIND.
 
The archaeologists of this era 
Were about to excitedly find
The Cradle of Mankind
Where the origins of humankind
Had been found, the news was about 
To be revealed to the whole world
And so the ears of our globe were glued  
To their...

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