Best Relic Poems
The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
Liberty’s fracture
braided through its fibers
a wound
that never quite...
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Categories:
relic, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Relic
It looked like a bleached tongue
pulled from a mouth,
petrified and incapable
now of letting a word slide over
its calcified silence.
I picked it out of the wet sand
and held it in my hand.
It had little weight, smooth
on one side and pitted
on the other. A cuttlefish bone.
It was a marvel of engineering.
My fingers followed its shape,
took...
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Categories:
relic, life, poetry, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Vetrans Relic
Why it's the Flag ? while im here, i believe
Not the people, because of all the thieves
Yes, there are those who have stolen away
The real people from our peaceful ways
Who decides? when serenity fails?
I once thought it was the militaries' detail
But from what I see and what i have seen
i think it's time for the...
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Categories:
relic, america, community, courage, devotion,
Form:
Political Verse
Natural Relic, Comely Artifact
A pristine, hidden stone
Lying in a crevice all it's own
No coroding wind, human hand to bemoan
Virgin beauty to a pilfering world unshown
Steely mason's hand o'er rocky divide did skim
Extracting rocks at a sculptor's whim
Purloined quarry removed with shearing shade, shoring shim
Forthwith, bartered nature; bridled pilgrim
In artisan's shop fodder to shape to trim
It's ruddy face chiseled,...
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Categories:
relic, nature
Form:
Rhyme
Relic Church
An old wooden shack,
Hidden in the hills of home;
Remnants of the past....
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Categories:
relic, history
Form:
Senryu
A Forgotten Relic
Her favorite dress is gathering dust,
and yet, in my mind, she's still wearing it.
My tinder-heart is set afire by love's
inextinguishable, eternal flame.
She lingers in the shadows of the night;
and oft visits me in my tear-filled dreams.
We once faced life's obstacles together,
before she died, and I was left alone.
The sands of time cannot lessen my grief,...
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Categories:
relic, age, angst, death, emotions,
Form:
Blank verse
A Relic
It sits, unwavering, on my desk
a relic from a by-gone era
Lowest of low tech
its on/off chain unobtrusive
Classic lines, bronze weight
solid as King Arthur's fortress
My initials traced in its dust
Lights up my nights
~ Lets me write...
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Categories:
relic, light, old, write,
Form:
Free verse
Treasured Relic
“As long as it stands with four walls and a door, a church will remain a refuge”
Treasured Relic
I stroll upon the sandy path along the ocean side
And come upon a little church, well worn by time and tide.
Walking up the wooden steps, I open unlocked door.
Aware I am trespassing I continue...
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Categories:
relic, adventure, faith, friendship, smile,
Form:
Couplet
Before the After
a fragment of before
prehistory rhetorical relic
some long ago thought
where imagination blooms
as reality withers
not quite dead
our dreams
become fermentations
something to sip
when it is time to believe
to have passion
in a worthwhile cause
but what do we know
beyond today’s wishes
and tomorrow’s intentions
the future is a horizon
we have yet to see
what we will remember
comes much later
after what is
ceases...
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Categories:
relic, dream, future, nostalgia, time,
Form:
Free verse
A Rested Relic
Where are you hiding?
My sweet ageless malice
Seasonal in your incarnating
From deep within mothers chalice
You who came drinking dry
Mamas love, patience and hope
Keeping long vigils sighing into dark sky
At dawns cock crow our joy elopes
You bore the tale of myriad scars
Our offering of ash, yams, oil and goats
Charm not your feet from following the stars
Upon...
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Categories:
relic, death, fear, funeral, loss,
Form:
Relic
I come to you,
hands surrendered, open,
full of heavy wounds.
Oh the drips of precious life,
those you gather in your breath,
to nurse your blackened heart.
I say you are a civil servant,
You think I mean saviour.
Whatever you are,
it is a gateway,
a tightrope.
You cross unknown voids,
air does not move you.
It erodes you faster because you do not...
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Categories:
relic, dream,
Form:
Antiquity
I feel like an antiquity
some relic from the past
crumbling at the edges
eroded over time
aging has arrived
There are fissures in my proud steel plated armor
once invincible
reality is bringing with it a heavy blow
it creeps upon you
like a stealth thief in the night
now you berate yourself
for being caught unaware
new words slip into your vocabulary
things like “possible stroke”
a...
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Categories:
relic, analogy, appreciation, health,
Form:
Free verse
Tattoos
Since I no longer fit in my name,
I carry it beneath my heart,
like a relic unearthed
from a dead alphabet.
It is a cracked word,
written in blue ink
on the page of a lost Bible
in my grandparents' attic.
People call my name.
But their voices sound
like a bell lost
in an abandoned cathedral.
Perhaps they never learned
to utter the syllables of pain
in...
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Categories:
relic, allah, anxiety, blessing, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Relic Of Yearning
In the expanse of my fervent sky
I let my enraptured heart’s songbird soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze,
bringing your fragrance to me
through the spectrum of spring.
The sunburst dawn splashed
the sequins of ethereal ecstasy,
designing for me the lattice of euphoria
in the domain of depthless desire,
that kept on glowing relentless,
I didn’t see...
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Categories:
relic, lost love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Holy Relic
when once my clay hands began to harden
under the potters wheeled sun
i turned to reach for my shadow
but found only a basket of dried
yesterdays and tomorrows.
when once my clay feet began to harden
through quarries of stone and silt,
impermeable to all water but not to...
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relic,
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