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Fossilised Poems - Poems about Fossilised

Grief

...I remember the grief in Samuel
when Saul failed,
like the grief in Nile
when blood crept into it —
just like it creeps into the bones of
this earth.

The rage in grief is distant but distinct,...
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Categories: fossilised, grief, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Romantic or Sexual Love

...Romantic or Sexual Love

Romantic or 
sexual love produces 
yellow clear fossilised resin utilised in 
jewellery.
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Categories: fossilised, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberbeach bones

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not a bone to pick on beach walks
with my lover just pleasure and leisure
strolls in the sand of time and togetherness
joined at the hips of mind body and soul

sizzling fingertips and footste...
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Categories: fossilised, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBONE BEACH

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    Striking beach sculpted by Nature 
    with massive drifting trees in cluster 
    that turned white bone-like gesture
    being continuous washed by salty sea water
    and exposed in stro...
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Categories: fossilised, appreciation, beach,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEarth Interval

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     Typecast pivot rips past apart
     Scars inflicted by the furnace 
     Scatter derma with war stars
     Astronomy faraway magnifies 
     Little shards of light filaments
     Filter...
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Categories: fossilised, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberRum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC

...Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but ma...
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Categories: fossilised, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPerpetual Motion

...A live T-Rex, but should I stand and fight
It’s foul breath and it’s drool made me take flight
I just couldn’t bear
That if I stayed there 
I’d be forevermore a coprolite


[C...
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Categories: fossilised, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBig Foot

...Gigantic footprints there on the beach
So big that a dozen men could stand in each
Yet what made these footprints did not simply stand 
But went every which way all over the sand
The emperor came...
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Categories: fossilised, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShuddering Flare

...And then the cold had its story to tell again and emerged overnight

The seasons had not changed but as always kept a sudden surprise

Days sunbathing and skinny dipping on the beach felt like a ...
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Categories: fossilised, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Aq50

...They say that any dream is organised around a wish.
That a dream can often be the fulfilment of a wish.
Last night I dreamt.  I dreamt that we were gone.

Palaeontologists declared, after
years ...
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Categories: fossilised, allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Water

...life without water
could not ever be sustained
thank the spring showers

water cascades... rain
distilled... early morning dew
winter confetti

no water... no frogs
deathly silence... then i...
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Categories: fossilised, nature, seasons, water,
Form: Haiku

Anc and Joe Slovo

...ANC and Joe Slovo  

ANC took on the white -run system and won, we hoped 
for a new free country an apartheid- free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets...
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Categories: fossilised, absence,
Form: Blank verse

Anc and Joe Slovo

...ANC and Joe Slovo  

ANC took on the white-run system and won, we hoped 
for a new free country an apartheid-free land
The “Rainbow Nation sprung to life reconciliation, dancing
in the streets, ...
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Categories: fossilised, absence,
Form: Blank verse

Waldorf Is Warbling Like Woh Wah Weh

...Waldorf warbling wa wo we wa
Glows from hidden archetypes are not architects nor are they archetypical in construction. In fact it is the translucent bud of a tropospheric triangle that timely count...
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Categories: fossilised, absence, africa, america, analogy,
Form: I do not know?

Sahara Dreams

...Time crystallised into every golden grain 
Fine as the flakes off my skin 
For a thousand years void of rain
Rising to Rah with the slope of the dunes

Crocodile tears fill the Nile
For they fl...
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Categories: fossilised, dream, sun,
Form: Rhyme

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