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Codices Poems - Poems about Codices


The Book of Souls

...The nobility, the priesthood,
The common, the slaves
A life's journey fixed,
Elected for life or
Passed from father to son.

Omens, divinations,
Predictions, reading future
They were skilled ...
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Categories: codices, history,
Form: Free verse

Lost Works, Part II

.........The loss of Alexandria,
the burning of Ashburnham House,
the Grand Library of Baghdad
which the Mongolians tore down,
the countless Aztec codices
that the conquistadors all burned...
just...
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Categories: codices, books, history, loss, lost,
Form: Rhyme



Punguage

...The modern world is an awe-choice saturation
Of stuffness and people,
A punguage,
An allcode,
The hash of all cyphers, nodes and codices
Ever scribed, wrote and written,
Bitten off, sto...
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Categories: codices, internet, language, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaya 2

...Continued from Maya 1

At length, when the womens' screams had ceased
and the sound of the thunder had stopped,
he gathered his courage and withdrew himself
from his hiding place beneath the cor...
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Categories: codices, allegory, conflict, courage, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry

Carolingian Minuscule

...Circa Holy Roman Empire
between ninth
and thirteenth century
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed
Benedictine monks
Of Corbie Abbey
devised cheek...
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Categories: codices, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Bags of Leftovers

...Things happen. Life unravels
The earth spins, perpetuating processes
And as we recount our travels
Our hearers marvel
Stories of prophets' heads on silver platters 
Representations of old things...
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Categories: codices, allegory, analogy, conflict, life,
Form: I do not know?

Lost Codices

...With luck, someday they may find them--
             gently brush back those decades
             like lover's tears.

             They will wash those glazed letters--
             straighten crack...
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Categories: codices, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse

Visions of Machu Picchu

...I walk over archeology
relics of ancient times
and I,


fall as Tlaloc dreams 
with obsidian eyes 
and pulls me in, 
A High Priest
wields the dagger
as a virgin weeps
of manna, blood drips...
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Categories: codices, fantasy, imagination
Form: Free verse

In.Sane

...In.sane in the membrane of my brain
or sane in the insanity of this game...

Row row, I'm rowing, between synapses
I'm flowing, silent rivers I'm riding
like a train...
Rollercoaster rollin' fa...
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Categories: codices, imagination, mystery, space, timetime,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things