Best Gibraltar Poems

The Dune on the Rock
    where fine grains of time     
gradually slip
revealing footprints
of lost vertebrates:

an archaic 
human being -
Neanderthal;
red deer, aurochs

elephants
and ibex…
crumbling sand

unveils
extinct 

past

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Title: Gibraltar Crumbling
19th December 2019...

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For a few coins Melord, I'll tell a story of two that met in this place, 
and here you can take your rest, and leave sumpter to graze in the tall grass.

I payed the old man his alms though planning to continue on my course.
For...

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Earth trembles in fear
Once-mighty nations
Beset by strong threats
See America,
Defender supreme

Devastated,
Alarmed to see
Their Gibraltar
Wounded, crumbling

USA,
Fighting blades
Of our foes

Treaties
Destroyed

War





Posted on January 7, 2020
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the wrath of death's hands
like the lash of sea
erodes the edges
of my weary soul
with its unseen force

i am battered
bruised once again
emotions stir
inside my core

rock to sand
gibraltar
crumbling down

i fight
against

time

December 22, 2019

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Oh, I loved her then
I placed her on high
Far above mortals
Where the air was thin
She handled it well

As the years passed
Love was still true
A stranger came
With ill intent

Then she stopped
Loving me
I could see

And my 
Whole world

Fell

12-9-19
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Rock

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