Best Howard Carter Poems

From dead sands
a step was birthed
of stone ...
a carved staircase
leading down ... and deep.
Shovels bit,
whisks brushed,
cartouches
led on ...
November
twenty-six,
nineteen-twenty-two,
chisels breached an entrance
and ...
The Boy King arose!




~ 10th Place ~  in the "Yalto Poems Only" Poetry Contest, Emile Pinet, Judge & Sponsor.

( A "Yalto" is a...

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Eureka - a love song Tanka series
~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~

It's a fair question:
as you smile that smile, you ask
how much I love you…
"You are constant as the sun
   ...and I am Copernicus"

As you close your eyes,
you ask how far I'd travel
to...

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Holographic forms formed life anew.
As colorful lives on walls came true.
These walls that held secrets from the past,
Ancient secrets hushed unveiled at last.

Hieroglyphs now waking with the dead,
Deciphering gold mask upon the head
Of the child King whose scepter he held tight
Which morphed him into manhood...

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Archaeological Expeditions To the Moon

By Sugob Elcitra

[Dr. Sugob Elcitra is the founding president of  Lunar Research, Inc.  His company plans to offer private trips to the moon for those able to afford the 1.5 million per person reservations.  The 20-day outings are...

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His age asked no ease
Yet death took the toll
His people were deprived of a king,
When a new civilisation unearthed.
He was the youngest king and the youngest to die.
As the drums beat in the dusty dawn of the Sahara
A wooden Egyptian table was laid and his...

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