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Monolithic Skin

Grand emotions
Monolith
Sending my soul
To the dark abyss
My store of strength is 
Paper-thin
Lying beneath
Monolithic skin
Reaching upward,
I dare not try
To touch the obelisk
Shining high
The substrate of my soul
Is dark, and small, and
Still. It folds
Into the darkness of 
Silent space
Monolithic obelisk
Gone….not a trace.

Premium Member Not Monolithic

Humanity's edifice shouldn't be built with monoliths but with myriads of well-placed stones!

 





(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
        06 July 2016

Premium Member Monolithic Monuments

An ocean's depth lies between The Georgia Guidestones 
and England's Salisbury Plains, where Stonehenge stands.
Though they appear on different continents, they share
mysterious secrets that have never quite been explained.

Were they erected as a cryptic message for all of mankind,
or esoteric giants raised on earth, new or eons of years ago?
Commissioned by modern man or the hierarchy of occult?
Vertical, they stand, monoliths in fields of space and time,

Silent are the henges, forged in history, draped in moss
circular in shape, one age old set encircling the other. 
Praised as an archaeological wonder, aligning with the sun,
a healing place or time's gateway used by priest and Druids?

The Georgian stones appear to me as a set of double doors,
Inscribed on their surfaces are lines of grave warning and laws.
heralding "truth, beauty and love, passion faith and tradition." 
One distinct language, and a guide limiting world population.

Perhaps Stonehenge is just a monument to the dead, but that's
not the simple minded perception that rolls around in my head.
I believe there's something more significant to the ancient stones
that we can only conceive if the Druids want it made known.


November 27, 2021
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Terrific Monolithic Systemic

Terrific Monolithic Systemic

made monolithic
that they thought was terrific
also systemic
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.

A cold monolithic grace

shadows stretched
from unblinking stone
a sun dares trespass
it's obsidian skin cold

wind whispers unknowns
of forgotten wars
iron tears flown

upon obsidian flank, rust
earth exhales silence, ancient 
shrouds frozen breath, dust

within its hollow soul
pushing the rank crust
pulse, violet dark

strange geometries bloom

in the frost upon a base, lost 
flock of silent wraiths, gather 
circles unknown speak, daggers
 
ravens scream, unseen
taste of ash n bone
bitter stone

in the air somewhere lingers
broken metronome, marching
sounds all shone

nowhere home, north 
a ragged crone, standing
cold monolithic, grace

waiting, watching all alone

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