Codices Poems - Poems about Codices

...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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.........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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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