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Best Sumer Poems

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Premium Member Frequency
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately 

that which...

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Categories: sumer, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Enoch
Enoch was the great grandfather of Noah and the father of Methuseleh and his book gives a unique view of the world before the flood,...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumer, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ishtar's Invasion
In Sumer land, you first appeared.
A potent god, both loved and feared.
Queen of Heaven, joined to its lights.
Moon your father, Sun your brother.

Venus was your...

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Categories: sumer, betrayal, corruption, dark, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The White Lady of Skipsea
"The White Lady of Skipsea"


Last night I dreamt 
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream 
within a dream

Diaphanous, 
my soul escaped, 
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held...

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Categories: sumer, dark, fantasy, gothic, history,
Form: Free verse
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8
The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak

The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play 
The prints...

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Categories: sumer, culture, freedom,
Form: ABC



Premium Member The Song of He Retired Farmer
Oh, I sit upon my porch, just to get a bit of breeze,
On the north side of my house, under over-hanging trees.
I feel so contented...

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Categories: sumer, life, dog, home, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Late Night Conversations
I was talking to my female friend the other night around 11 and she asked me 

Her: Can I ask you something 
Me: Yeah,wassup 
Her:...

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Categories: sumer, anxiety, feelings, for her,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Epigrams V
Epigrams

Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch

It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.

Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch

If...

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Categories: sumer, giggle, humor, humorous, irony,
Form: Epigram
Punctuation Police Patrol
Dictionary in hand Bobbies
     manned state of the spy craft created
strategic peripheral outposts
     a comma dated,

(sans syntax...

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Categories: sumer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Oracle of Giza
A new day perhaps, of immeasurable tin, sound of din
A hurricane noise, a thrall of riotous cuts, although thin
The blood-curdle choke of rage from before
Now...

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Categories: sumer, 11th grade, absence, allusion,
Form: Abecedarian
Curiosus
August fools 
gust for a lust
a thirst of just
what truth is first
“Mulder” is spooky
but a pretty smart cookie
“she called him Fox”
but he didn’t lookie…
greys the...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumer, adventure
Form: I do not know?
Imp-Ulse Attraction
The seductive voice
emanating from the Cyclops eye,
whispers:    Don’t believe what you see!
Only trust what I say,
when you zombie sleep turn off the...

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Categories: sumer, allusion, imagery, satire, surreal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You hack down everything you see, War God!

Rising on fearsome wings
you...

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Categories: sumer, allegory, analogy, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch

From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make...

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Categories: sumer, death, drink, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Mysterious Reindeer
I stepped out of the house a little before noon
with hope in my head 
courage in my feet and faith in my knees
I knew that...

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Categories: sumer, angel, animal, autumn, blessing,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs