Best Excavation Poems

Children as young as three years old,
    Killed for not doing as they’re told,
    Forced to forget their culture bold,
What a tragedy to unfold!

Two hundred fifteen, that ain’t less,
    Young innocents abused, suppressed,
   ...

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                        In the corridors
          of my mind and endless passages
I hold the scars...

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Our first date
        to bridge a poker-face divide
        conversation with a touch of fantasy
        till thunderbolts compose themselves
      ...

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I press my hands into the ruins of you,
fingertips cut in the quiet rot of ancient wounds
that have never quite been touched.
Beneath splintered ribs, 
your earth is sulfurous in suffering—
your volcanic pulse muffled under sediment,
heart-rages arrested in amber.

I carve through your marrow-deep dusks,
knuckles bloodied on...

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Ensure you allude to all that has been recorded.
Every creature that has lived inside the rocks.
A long-forgotten former planet has appeared.
Awareness arises as we break the padlocks. 

Electric fan blades are humming in a hot place.
When you're alone, and there's no oxygen.
Loneliness looms overall aped a...

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For good foundations, one must excavate -
removing rocks or muck or sediment.
Without this process, how can one create
a solid base on an impediment?
“Build not on sand,” a Holy One once said.
(I paraphrase; I think you get the gist.)
Remove the dirt and grit inside your head.
You...

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As one gets older some look back,                                    some want to see what they did right and wrong.              Some call this their memoirs, ...

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Three men are digging a hole in the ground
Their supervisor is casually standing around
A bystander is not making the slightest sound
No precious pirates’ treasure will soon astound.
Dirt brought up beneath is forming a mound
One says a jackhammer is needed to pound
Hard limestone rock is starting...

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Kenyan desert lull
Measuring tape and tiny picks
Sand reveals nothing...

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Virtuous excavation…

validating steadfast faith*
voiding wavering trust and hope…

vested for life-building endeavour
verily provides venue for transformation
victorious removal of sin boulders with God’s grace…

visible divine** behavioral progress paved by the Lord 
voicing out trust in Christ midst vilifying vanity-vexation
valiant against pride’s visitation for vision-led revival voyage
vigilant to...

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Intrigued by what is hidden 
inspired by the forbidden,
I dare to excavate the caverns of your mind.
     Heartache has created walls,
walls that serve as protectors against pain and disappointment.
Past pain & old haunting hurts have banded together to stop the reoccurrence...

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Open your mind
dig deep within
start excavation
throw out all bad incidents
all negatives
Remove anger, hatred, envy
End your lust

Fill that empty pit
with love, faith,
compassion

Today is new life
Past was last birth
Past was not me
From today I will live
blissfully

20.06.2021
Contest name : This or That, Vol 4
Sponsor : Edward Ibeh...

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....................In the dawns' refuse I have uncovered

Wonderful treasures & memories....

Jewels once lost to the distant past, That have arisen

From the recesses of life to rejuvenate the primal

Urge that has long slept inside this

Broken castle of words.



Here now, I send out vultures & crows

To re collect...

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Intrigued by what is hidden 
inspired by the forbidden,
I dare to excavate the caverns of your mind.
     Heartache has created walls,
walls that serve as protectors against pain and disappointment.
Past pain & old haunting hurts have banded together to stop the reoccurrence...

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Excavations expose stunning skulls of history,
Where-around emblazoned scripts cultures and creatures;
Minds of human beings and their mass mystery,
The whole lot that surrounds them with all true features...

Be it Rosetta stone or Ashurbanipal's,
Troy or king Tut's tomb; Machu Picchu or Pompeii;
Be Akrotiri Tehra or the Dead...

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