Excavated Poems - Poems about Excavated

Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges

...I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
th...

Memorial Day 2025

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Memorial Day 2025

Soon Memorial day will be upon us once more,
And unhappy memories of the past will be excavated again.
My younger Brother was a highly decorated soldier
rising to th...

No Answers But Echoes

...

There are no answers,
just the outgoing tide
leaving a poem written
in the sand to be washed
away when the tide
comes in again.

I am lost in the detail,
the exquisite swirls
and rippled...

new species of dinosaurs

...In modern day times since twenty-fifteen
Fifty new species of dinosaurs have been seen
Because new places are being rapidly excavated
Excitement generated cannot be overstated...

Stone

...Stone clad hotels and banks,
stone-faced facades.
Stone monuments carved by old money.

The stone-poor have no stone history,
they will leave no archeology
to be excavated and raised.
Their th...

Horizon of Comprehension

...A simple misconception,
Can lead to endless argumentation.
Once it started its initiation,
It'll always have a continuation.

The tension escalates,
While the calmness disintegrates.
How can y...

When Our Eyes Met

...Call it yours, Call it mine,
The tale we wrote was glorifying.
I was a driller ,
Your eyes were the mine.
'Excavated until I could see through them,
The mesmerizing light was the love with shine...

Eden, I Land

...I knew that am empty
Am hollow and through the harrowing
Sojourn to identify myself, to complete the missing piece
I had to explore, to swim oceans and cruise dilapidated Sahara
Just to ensure th...

Moss

...The years have not mildewed
for my moss is deep and soft,
it is a fine as baby hair
as thick as an uncut meadow.

Somewhere there are lands I have plowed
over and over,
beneath which are the f...

From the Ruins

...Water tapping against the ruins
Of hidden earth
Lines that we have written in the stars
Like a flower grown from seed
That’s lost at birth
We count on one another
To remind us of who we are

...

Web Words

...A Web waits in its black nest.
A thousand and one fledglings
cry for attention
open throat's as red as blood.

I consider not writing anything,
the last line I wrote
wants to be the next one.
...

The Castle Plan

...A young tourist went into an old castle for site seen, 
he became fascinated by the antique structure, the Gothic sculptures and the beautiful  renaissance paintings hanging on the stone walls, arti...

Revisiting

...Unearthing blind roots, cyclic thoughts
spin round again
as if they had just come to me,
and had not been arriving forever.

Abandoned living-spaces excavated
from under the forgotten foundatio...

Truly Meant

...She dug a hole in the earth
& buried her heart where no one
Could find it.
Through my tongue I have dug
And excavated through a person
I thought I knew.
A region I still travel both known and u...

Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3

...“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern W...

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