Long Archaeologist Poems

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  
the scent of soil and...

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The Love Song Of Shu-Sin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Darling of my heart, my belovéd, 
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey. 
Darling of my heart, my belovéd, 
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey....

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I was a busy archaeologist, who enjoyed interesting and fulfilling work,
And I was very intrigued, with the ancient sites where mystery lurked. 

My painstaking work caused me to travel, ofttimes to far distant lands,
As golden...

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As the man on the roof, took two steps towards the edge, he was unexpectedly stopped by the sound of a bright and familiar voice, down below.
     "I thought you were...

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I write this down not knowing what to think,
or how to make sense of what I went through,
my name is Blake Jones, I was S.A.S.,
and everything that I write here is true.

This tale tells how...

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Janice’s Looks in the Mirror

Like a pendulum from an orange clockwork

The agent high above on raucous prayers

She hung high and dry suspended in drought


Resembling a shot of liquid poppies injected

The heroine succumbed in Noah’s wet...

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I used to be an archaeologist,
and minored in paleontology,
had a job at a college and tenure,
Dr. Bascomb was what students called me.

I specialized much in the early years,
the emergence of civilization,
in summer I’d go and...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics etc.
he coughs...

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Today is an another wobbly morning where I have opened my eyes to collect my pieces and recollect the transient peace of last night  which soon gave it's way to  a tentative traumatising earthquake and...

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EVOLUTION OR FIRM RESOLUTION

If anyone happens to mention evolution,
It could never ever be to the exclusion,
Of any faith worldwide, only to the inclusion
For all of us are steadfast in our resolution!
All of us believe in...

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Tutankhamun, a small bird of prey
This pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
 Akhenaten’ son and his sister “the Young Lady”.
 Alas! Alas! Alas! Ay that was the name of his vizier
His minister or favourite
He made him marry
As...

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Incident At Owl Inn
A simple call placed to the authorities created panic
Police and Fire vehicles speeding, crashing into each other
Everything they could, in pursuit of the truth
Hysterical hectic red sirens spinning out of control to...

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I think it's time for a proper introduction,
Many have heard of Rellic,
But few know of Reilly Anders,
I'm a treasure hunter of sorts,
An adept at exploration,
Now I know what you're thinkin,
"Ohhhh great, ANOTHER archetypal girl archaeologist,...

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I got caught up in social seizure
And Everything was oblivious
Till I flipped the coin for my pleasure

My whole life was obitual 
I strived to undo the Apostrophe
But my hated normal became habitual

I was actively dormant
Caged...

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What's the point dad
What's the point 
people learn at uni
but then can't get a job

I think that schools
a waste of time!  
look around my little one
look around friend

I know a girl
came to this land
trained...

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.                           1~

She walked ~ faint footprints left behind
A maiden's...

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I am different
I am unique 
I am special
I am the first man on the earth
History tried to re-write me out of the scripts
Year after year archaeologist
Discovers my bones
My treasures
My artifacts
I am not a slave 
I...

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Holographic forms formed life anew.
As colorful lives on walls came true.
These walls that held secrets from the past,
Ancient secrets hushed unveiled at last.

Hieroglyphs now waking with the dead,
Deciphering gold mask upon the head
Of the child...

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The Monstrous Past
I try to put the past to bed and tuck it up so it can’t escape
I say goodnight and creep away, but it’s always by my side.
I try not to look and hope...

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There's an Island I know which is surrounded
by a deep, blue ocean,
filled with mermaids, Lochness monsters,
giant octopuses, and dolphins
that can talk!

Within the Island, we have folks of all kind,
who have met somehow through time....

Genghis Khan...

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THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S WIFE
Sorry I cannot say her name, you all know her well
She was my brother’s wife at the Kimmerdale
My brother was an archaeologist
He found a pot in Egypt
In Tutankhamen’s chamber
Believe me it was made...

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The Fuente

Those little birds (he'd never known their name) 
went skittering over ground, to hide in brambles. 
How nimble Nature is! The swallows screamed 
and wheeled above, descanting their Te Deum. 
Gonzalo moved on up...

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Further down passed my own chilling past
I stumbled upon man in a Neanderthal mask
When I wandered so much like an outcast
I wondered what had been his place in the world so vast

The archaeologist measured his...

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Writing on Stone Finally Deciphered

By Elton Camp

In the ruins of an ancient city it was found
But, no expert could its meaning expound

But visitors to the museum were all told
That the key to a great mystery...

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I am extinct, the way some pachyderms are
while others are not.
Ice fields turn to desert,
wind-straws evolve into sun hats.

An archaeologist wearing a straw hat
discovers my skull.

She crouches down, sweeps a small brush
over my partly exposed...

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