Best Marble Poems

House of Marble

Porcelain glass

Glance toward the mirror

At life, as it pass

Visions appear

Though shadows they'll fade

All, most all

Share a masquerade

Rivers of turquoise

Mountains of gold

Towering rainbows

What do they hold?

What was? What is? 

What may someday be? 

In these, could you find

Your destiny?

House of Marble

Crystalline glass

Glance toward the...

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On a slope graced with green
White marble stands in proud salute

For beneath these engraved pillars of memory
Lie the resting places of heroes

A solitary green fir looks down
As if sheltering the lost and the taken

So many names, from all walks of life
A father, brother a girlfriend...

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I had a dream the other night
Dreamt of flyin' what a sight

Soared above our big blue marble
At what I saw I could only marvel

Inspired by a very peaceful scene
The oceans blue the forests green

If only man could soar so high
He'd view it all with a...

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Sculptor’s marble slab -
The subject decides which chips
To leave on the floor


"The best artist has that thought alone 
Which is contained within the marble shell; 
The sculptor's hand can only break the spell 
To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

Michelangelo...

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Jul 2013
Chennai

Proof that an indivisible portion of time exists,
Frozen in that time, unchanging,
Morphed into the metamorphic rock, forever,
Hacked, packed, moved,
masoned into walls of a ritualistic enclosure

I can drink on them for hours,
Look into their eyes,
Isolated, purified, distilled to 175° proof,
One expression, one thought, one pain,
...maybe...

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I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls,
With servants and helps and slaves and all.
Silver cutlery, mahogany furniture and cedar floors,
I dreamed that man and beast both great and small
Knelt before me, swearing allegiance while a kissin’
My fingers so. That I would wake to the sound...

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I had a dream the other night
Dreamt of flying, what a sight

Soared above our big blue marble
What I saw, I could only marvel

Inspired by the peaceful scene
The oceans blue, the forests green

If only man could soar so high
He'd view it all with a different eye

From...

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A leaf on a marble plate,
  an angle hushing behind swollen grass
  and resting still, in place
  
  Welcomed to every party
  her boyfriend is always late

  Under great sky arches
  black silken lace and angel face
 ...

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Magnificent monuments have been erected for those of fame,
And o'er the graves of others will e'er glow an eternal flame.
But America's greatest rest 'neath a simple marble stone.
They laid down their lives for mankind's follies to atone.

The towering Washington Monument is very inspiring and grand,
Built...

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I was walking a dark path
Among black trees
Time always running
Careless and mysterious

I was running, towards nowhere,
Without meaning, without will
I flew and fell again and again
Over a dark and invisible ravine   

Then, I picked up a marble
A translucent colored glass
I gazed unwittingly through it
Unable...

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With a mind sharp as a marble
Words roll off my tongue as garble.
My clean shaved head is like a globe
Serpentine tattooed, lobe to lobe
With yellow, brown and strings of blue
Of understated pastel hues
Waxed smoother than a scratched eight-ball
Like a brain coral, all in all.
What is...

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Back when I was four or five,
unspeakable was my joy:
admiring rainbowed prisms
in my marble, my treasured toy.

Only in the grownups' world
was a crumpled dollar bill
more treasured than my marble
there glistening on the window sill....

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Lo, what stands before me is most certainly peculiar
This bombast wall of mystery crafted by an artificer unknown
Thus I shall pursue my inquiry by light that is lunar,
And cast away every unturned stone



As I draw near this pillar now, 
A certain notion becomes quite clear
Its...

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Sintered tiles of green wreathed marbles
bejewelled in steps that elevate to where you are entombed
incense wafts white and slate, demure and shy
my growing guilt is deflowered by your-her friend's- sly smirk
she scoffs along-was she forgotten, faded and gone when you left her cow carcass dead
she...

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imagine on your four walls
you have a digital picture frame
all set with the perfect timing
of a roller coaster ride
i know what i would do in myspace

vanishing101

Imagine a round treadmill
a rounded sort of platform
to stand on
and with the sensor hanging around your neck
the floor moves in...

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