Best Time Capsule Poems
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~ Simply me ~
Sunday October 25th, 2020- Poem of the Week
Seeds are nature's progeny en-capsuled.
Life's germ in suspended animation,
Awaiting the trigger to grow, scheduled
By warmth, rain, season to spark gestation.
Tiny seed has script to create tall trees
Using DNA code coiled in germ cells.
Shoots sent skyward, roots down, through the soil squeeze
To play out the process, the code foretells.
Seeds stored for decades remain viable
Kept in seed banks to save diversity,
When tree survival unreliable
Through habitat, climate adversity.
Seed banks are time capsule stores, that sustain
Old species, with chance to spring up again.
Will this be consider one
of the pieces left
behind in a puzzling world
I ask who will judge or go
into this time capsule
for themselves just
to find out what was going
on or what they have miss
in a world that was destine
to a system that in some way
we all had to follow
a time capsule has been filled
re-vitalized with happenings
and events of history treasures
Perhaps there will come a day
when it will be explored
Directions will pace these
new adventures of mine
that was saved for a moment
in time
How often have I
had to realize that today
there will be a tomorrow
leading to a future that's
not promising, but for sure
there's hope for all to cling too
You try. Everyday you try.
You get up, search, write, you hit apply.
You do the same cycle; wash, rinse, clean.
You hope that in every solitaire, a reply will come after.
You wait, and wait, and wait.
Sometimes, you get nothing, sometimes you get objections.
You try. Everyday you try.
When will you do? Do you know what to do?
That one day will come. In time, you'll know. . . you'll do.
Submerge into the ocean of an unforgettable history
Love remained as a time capsule
Drown into depth, someone has evoked the same memory
Being alive is being a fool
For an umpteenth time she stumbled
Love remained as a time capsule
Falling for the unfinished story which yet crumbled
She creates a remedy to cure her cracks
For an umpteenth time she stumbled
Mrs. Time traveler forget about what she has
A happy whole family still not enough
She creates a remedy to cure her cracks
A distinct language uttered with whole heart and love
She was out loud, but none for what hers
A happy whole family still not enough
She intoxicated by her own universe
She was out loud, but none for what hers
Submerge into the ocean of an unforgettable history
Drown into depth, someone has evoked the same memory
WHAT IS TIME CAPSULE
I am sixteen stealing my father’s cigarettes.
Learning an independent thought is not valued.
Turn the attention spin. This is a kissing game.
Pucker up. This is going to be a disaster.
A smooth whistle, I don’t think he will disapprove
if I drowned until there is a prince saving me.
Hold back all emotion or it will be dark dawn at noon
A whiskey fight because I keep telling people I’m fine.
Truth spin, whose turn to be in charge, give meaning
create order. It’s your turn to shine Stardust.
Humdrum routine bicycle backwards time skips and erases
An old tear heart breaks the weather like rain.
I’m getting too vague. Slow down to specific detail.
They used to call me, evil twin, Medusa, four eyes.
I need something good a new jacket. Bookkeeper
teach me how to live like an open eyed swan.
People tell me I’m not looking or listening. I’m overwhelmed.
Deep sob Let’s celebrate A sunny day
My warts are ugly and I want them to go away.
Let go of that Anger. Don’t get prepared for a scrap so quick.
I’m a young bastard that really likes Bob Dylan.
If you could leave behind a time capsule
What kind of things would it hold
It could be something brand spanking new
But to them, it would still be old
Would it be some kind of music?
Maybe your favorite song?
Not any of that beatnik stuff
Well, cause, that would just be wrong
What about a photograph?
You know, like Marilyn Monroe
Wait, I'm only kidding
My wife done told me "No"
Not to change the subject
But I've got a question to ask real fast
If you're walking, while looking in a mirror
Does it mean you can see the past?
Sorry, I don't know where that came from
I won't let it happen anymore
Now, getting back to the time capsule
You know, what we were talking about before?
Maybe, leave them something scary
Like a picture of my mother-in-law
I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy
And to them I didn't know least of all
Well, I'm sure you'll think of something
That you would want to leave behind
My wife said I couldn't participate
Cause, there's no telling what they'll find
ME CAPSULE
09-30-2015
Prudence incarnate
Enticing and exciting
Reckless / selfish
Compatible up until
The consumption of chemicals
The emotion blotted, the romance killed.
Imprisoned by her
Enamored and rotted
I writhe in her field.
Lost and forgotten
Heart-lorned and haunted
By her intensity
Shadows lock her heart
The moon, the night
Nothing shall keep this apart.
Except for ourselves.
Except by her.
Derision
Indecision
Anchored by ghosts
Falling away
Freezing me out.
Torture to heart.
Diseased in judgment
Forgiveness? The cure.
The virus is doubt.
Poetic Time Capsule
The words you see from me are
not necessarily a reflection of how I
feel at that given moment.
Sometimes they are a reflection of
a way I felt at a prior time, a moment
caught in a poetic time capsule that,
for one reason or another, was not
released until sometime after it was
created.
Sometimes the moment may have
passed years ago, yet I felt, for
one reason or another, the
need to poetically capsulize it.
Whatever the content of the
capsules, know that every one of
them, for one reason or another,
are medicine to my soul.
Whats in the news today
and how much snow is on the ground
they say in the paper there is 2 600 homeless people
in my home city
but word of mouth and the people who work in the centers
estimate its more like 5000
so I ask
is this a protest of a country who has been lied to
who was led to a war that did not concern them?
who demands to have their own backyard of chemical warfares cleaned up?
Is this a protest against war of I'll never pay taxes
but I'll humble my own country
turning innocent men into serial killers
who join the smuftee killing patriots levelling a country flat
firing machine guns at innocent men listening to dance music
not to mention the reports of raped thirteen year olds and arson
and parents being forced to witness the whole thing before being executed
So I ask
wanna know about terrorism
as winter approaches
and you know soon
you're gonna be walking amongst streets
of frozen corpses
because there is nowhere left for them to go
and the soldiers join forces with some other country who feeds you
lies through the television
and then your own backyard says were going in to peace keep and the truth
surfaces that yes it is an all out war and we've been lieing all along
5000 homeless
a protest?
a government abnormality of one city?
terrorism of chemical warfare
and we're told some government across the ocean
can't handle their own nightmare of terror and assassins
so we have to go in to attack them
even though 9-11 under rug swept from years ago through our books of lies
was an event they catapulted unto somebody else!!!
5000 homeless
are we under attack?
Is that why no ones worried about the seial killings
of hookers turning up in fields anymore that farmers keep reporting?
Is taht why every neighborhood is swarmed with druglords and junkies?
and the prison that houses 300 has more than 700 people in it?
and all i see in my head are frozen corpses
and now i'm wondering
do the professionals im amongst
helping me through this rough patch
are they on medication too?
did we point the finger in the wrong way?
Is it US or them
and what does that have to do with the price of tea in china ask the British?
but what does my underground know of saints
divine intervention and methods to madness?
This is a flag planted in territory I could not hope to control.
A buoy dropped in space that will never be sighted again.
A desperate note protected by a fragile bottle in the fathomless oceans.
Why does a craftsman labor to build an instrument that he knows cannot possibly function?
I have no answer, though I must be driven by that same force as I vainly attempt to tether time.
14 April 2021
My Mind,
A Time Capsule
Written: by Tom Wright
1/27/2016
With the clock un-laboriously doing its thing,
I start today with blank canvas.
No chambered thoughts, tarrying from the dark side.
My mind functions as a stopgap time capsule,
Where is interred each thought,
Concisely framed, that my existence lay’s in.
Occasionally I excavate thoughts
Meant only for myself, while questioning,
At what depth into my seclusion
Will I permit my pen to reach?
The farther my steps Journey,
The more these thoughts become frozen
On things Eternal;
Time Capsule
I am lying in this bed in this room.
My bedroom that has become my tomb.
A time capsule of the past.
Of days that didn't last.
My children have chosen not to visit me, nary a call. They've left me in this tomb of yesteryear.
Hoping for the day they once again will. appear.
I had a stroke.
I assure it's not a joke.
It left me dependant on others for care.
All this is, for me, one giant scare.
In my room, memories encompassing me of days long past.
Awaiting when my children will call, dare I dream, they visit me at long last.
Until then, I am in the room.
That has become my tomb.
In this tomb of memories, I silently & solemnly cry.
Fearing, I'll be here alone & forgotten by my children, until the day I finally die.
Copyright © Ashe "Kristy" De La Keur Scoville
*Image of Patty Hearst Post SLA Days by Bio.
Patty Hearst Time Capsule
PRE
kidnap
madcap
Miss press
distress
Stephen
live-in
boyfriend
loose end
next door
implore
both are
though marred
claimed they
made way
demand
expend
needy
agree
release
increase
more sum
unharmed
POST
coerced
Miss Hearst
photo
*Rousseau
woodness
goodness
raided
they laid
six ~love
**Cinque's club
plus him
crushed 'em
dual
you-all
Patty
make three
dub nine
club crime
bank raid
they'd paid
***Hearst weigh
must pay
servin'
seven
commute
come two
now writes
proud sights
~love: A score of zero in tennis or squash
*Rousseau: French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution
**Cinque: Pronounced 'SINK' in English, he was a part founder of the Symbionese Liberation Army, whereto, instigated the kidnapping and indoctrination of Patty Hearst.
***Patricia Campbell Hearst: After the bank hold-up that led to her imprisonment for her involvement, President Carter later commuted her sentence after she served 21 months of the seven years the court had decreed. Patty did marry her bodyguard, Bernard Shaw, who's now deceased. Over the years, she has written several books that had mostly affected her life.
2021 August 27
*1st Place*
FOOTLE FINALE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 August 28
Time Capsule
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015
I carved a name upon a tree,
Like a time capsule, I thought.
In twenty years, I returned,
But God, the great time keeper,
Thought this was not to be
For upon my arrival,
I found the tree had burned.