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Best Obelisks Poems

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Premium Member At the Golden Dawn of Understanding Potd
It was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.

My fourth graders were...

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Categories: obelisks, africa, christian, education, history,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal...

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Categories: obelisks, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Desert Gloaming
In the stray lavender of twilight
as cactis' spindled obelisks
brush spreading lapis sky
a honeyed sun 
holds tight
to desert crags
for a last glimpse
of fulgid sage
and adobe rainbow...

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Categories: obelisks, nature, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Curse of Nefertiti
In golden chains of bondage, was the royal queen
Brought forth, force to kneel, before the newly crowned
Pharaoh of Egypt!
Branded a heretic, a blasphemer of the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obelisks, adventure, halloween, history, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alexandria
Long before Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks, 
Before Hammurabi, Sargon and Ramses ruled 
The world below their feet;
Before biblical scenes and mythological dreams 
Of magical...

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Categories: obelisks, history, world, sea, city,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Totems
The Totem      ©

The totem speaks of the tribe’s history, lore, 
deeds of courage
Animals, fish and gods
 carved in reverence,
from a...

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Categories: obelisks, devotion, faith, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Upbeat, the Islander: Upbeat Comes To Terms
I'm a simple guy,
I like video games, music and succeeding without trying,
So when a man comes up to me and tell me he can save...

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Categories: obelisks, bible, hope, jesus, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Fifty Shades of Hell
Forgive them Father for their souls unclean
Hardened hearts that demonically demean
Camouflaged cathedrals a silent smokescreen
The towers of Babylon crumble as foreseen

Inauspicious idols obelisks of the...

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Categories: obelisks, conflict, deep, philosophy,
Form: Monorhyme
Shaman Untitled
... long ago
in the timeless now,
we traveled, when
came a shaman
giggling in the glee of bringing us chest-to-chest,
his eyes mirroring our
lustful wonder of nipple-kisses
in burnished darkness,...

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Categories: obelisks, love, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Tanka Duo Cleaved - Unity Realised
I weave rhapsodies   |  words dance before you
     Enshrining words on paper  |  obelisks of enlightenment
   ...

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Categories: obelisks, poems,
Form: Tanka
In Gettysburg
In Gettysburg, the soldiers fell
In shock, in pain, in death,
As thousands from the North and South
Cried out with their last breath.

Their bodies lay in bloody...

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Categories: obelisks, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Legend of the Black Dove - Part 4
Legend Of The Black Dove  
                  ...

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Categories: obelisks, adventure,
Form: Prose
The Same
you will go there
one day
where i once was

in the air i will leave a trace
where the obelisks point the way
when the great shapes shift

you will...

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Categories: obelisks,
Form: I do not know?
Where Is the Pharaoh's Toys
I have seen the formation
Of ancient lands
I have seen the creation
Of ancient hands

Pyramids
That soar to the sky
Here amid
Temples majestic and high

I have seen
Wonderful things
Tombs and...

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Categories: obelisks, adventure, africa, age, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Menu a Or Menu B Is Quite a Dashing Dilemma
Menu A or Menu B ? oh dear! quite a dilemma really. ha

Tadpoles induced symphonies in a bowl of custard cued. But cued is neither...

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Categories: obelisks, autumn,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs