Long Archeological Poems

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Premium Member Interpreting The Lost Archives of Phlacknoktinok

They’re not human, not even humanoid 
These creatures' presence in our archeological history 
Once considered a naturally occurring phenomenon 
But only recently discovered otherwise 
And were only hinted at by geologist nuts 
Who believed Fairies had inscribed 
These strange triangles on the surface of Quartz crystals
Not too far from the truth ... 
After careful scrutiny, famed archeologist, Dr. Carol Lewis, PhD  
Has made her announcement in "The Scientific Journal, Vol. MMMCLXXIII, 
Unclassified Documents, (May 2035), Article: Interpretation of the Mysterious Triangles on Quartz Crystals”, pages 74-78, 94, and 96.
Dr. Lewis has proclaimed that her deciphering has uncovered 
An ancient civilization, that after carbon dating 
Existed more than 2.5 billion years ago 
A time before Man, before dinosaurs, before time ...  

                               The following is an excerpt of her work: 

                               THE LOST ARHIVES OF PHLACKNOKTINOK 

                               DURING ECLIPSE (OF) *undecipherable* BIG NEWS   
                               SOFT ROCK ONES SLIP (THROUGHOUT) TIME 
                               (IN) MIRROR SHELLED CRAFT (TO) GLIMPSE 
                               REFRACTION (OF) *undecipherable* BENDING 
                               CONTACT SUCCESSFUL. FACE (TO) FACE INEVITABLE. 
                               FLOW (WITH THE) LIGHT. 

                                               - Presumably the author's signature and date

Meanwhile, we have made numerous attempts to contact Dr.Lewis
for any comments on her article but she has mysteriously gone missing ...

Most likely into the far regions of The Twilight Zone.


Indiana Jones

The passionate...pulsating rhythm,
   Of your tasty...temple of doom.
      Pounds a pummeling throb,
         While hunting for buried treasure. 

         A lustrous...look like acid rain,
      A hopeful...heart, a buried jewel.
   My whip...willingly...whips,
A love escapade unwinds.

I raid your beautiful...body
   Looking for the lost ark in the dark.
      Erotic...exploration begins;
         I explore a deeper crevice. 

         Solely...searching a secret tunnel,
      Investigating, probing, and panting,
   In the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
With my trusty archeological tool.

Hot wax poured...sizzling burns
   The crimson scented wax streams
      On this secret quest for love, 
         A stimulating last crusade.

         Drops of salty...sweat
      Bead from my fatigued...face  
   Dripping into the abyss of covers 
And on the glistening skin.

Contrast: hitting the shiny...skin
   The splash sound...is amplified.
      A magnified grimace of pleasure
         Protrudes the dark silhouette.

         Steamy...lava skin yearns,
      For a cool touch to extinguish 
   The heat of human friction while
Luscious...lips call out Dr. Jones.



 ____________________________
*Posted for an anonymous request
To write more free verse...

Premium Member Undiscovered Tomb of a Pharoah

Valley of the kings
Romantic ideas
Word spread rapidly
Undiscovered tomb of a pharoah
World renown archeological teams 
headed for Egypt

Amateurs, we stood in line for almost twenty-hours 
before it was our
turn to take a look inside.
From the sunlight to the darkness, at first you go blind.
You hopefully catch yourself 
As you find yourself falling over all of the stuff the servants
Felt the Pharoah would need in the afterlife
Toys, tools, everyday items, seeds, toiletries, decorative items
Vast amounts of lapis, and gold are glimpsed at corners where
generators are lighting lamps.

The air is stale, like a death march.
There is little light; but lots of angry shadows.
I lost my footing twice, tripping over an embossed box.
There were three sarcophagus, 
In this unusual tomb. 
A family disaster perhaps?
I could barely see in here.
I went back out,
and gulp-breathed 
Gorgeous Egyptian air,
relieved I had not been grabbed
by a mummy.

Premium Member Manuscript of the Past

A legend.
A story.
Gold.
The fever.
My true love is finding,
History of true relics of the past.
My professor found an old map,
In his mother's belongings,
After her passing.
Laughing he truly thought it,
Was a fake in the imagination,
In the mind of his
Young great grandfather.
So he decided to research it,
To prove himself wrong.
He realized quickly this fact,
Was enlightening...
The map was indeed real.
The gold was never found.
The professor decided on the dig.
The dig is an archeological,
Research project.
It was approved for a grant.
It was rumored there is a manuscript,
With treasures beyond true imagination.
This is truly my future and my calling. 
This manuscript is priceless and,
Can tell us things about the past.
Things we never knew.

Premium Member Lost Subterranean City

lost subterranean city of the Grand Canyon
Fact, legend, Hopi story or cover-up?
In 1909 Arizona Gazette printed the story
A secret underground citadel a mile down
discovered by G E Kinkaid, a renown explorer
also the first white baby born in Idaho

the mysterious cavern was etched out in rock
shaped like the spokes of a wagon wheel
could have held up to fifty-thousand people
a highly evolved civilization, sharp-edged weapons
ornately decorated gold and copper cups
the multitude of mummies turned out to be male only

this could be the oldest archeological find in the USA
tablets were engraved with hieroglyphics
appeared to be a link between Egypt and Arizona
Hopi Indians claim their ancestors lived in such a city
Under the Grand Canyon
Hoax or truth? Smithsonian scientists believed it was true.
Form: Narrative


Premium Member Planet Neanderthal Island

I must report that the Professor of Anthropology was more interested in how extinct prehistoric man, more specifically, Neanderthals, lived and why they didn’t survive.  They seem bigger with bigger brains from the fossilized records.  To her, it just didn’t make sense.  So, she bought an island in an undisclosed location (classified) to create an unsanctioned closed environmental experiment inspired by recent advances in archeological biogenetic engineering.  She intends to create not just one but a whole community of Neanderthals.  So, she can study them, up close and for real, to see if there’s anything to genetically encoded inheritance. 

     It’s been six months since she announced her findings to the world. A special envoy has been dispatched to investigate.  Upon touchdown on the sandy shores of the island, this journalist must deviate to announce, “What the ...?”  For high up on top of the bank was a common lemonade stand with a little Neanderthal girl sitting behind a sign in front reading, “5 shells for my Galactic Transport Juice (special in-house formula)!!!  DRINK UP NOW!!!  Before the next MASS GLOBAL EXTINCTION Event!!!  Only 5 shells!!!” 

     It’s like she was waiting for us.  And she was alone.
Form: Narrative

Extensions of the Girl

She was eminently qualified in numbers  
Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects  
Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul
Religion guided Sue through water and soil
Down in the mud of love 
Prayer lined up on the side of God
A tool most useful in the invisible realm

If not

She was locked in tangibles
Sherlocked away to wait for Easter
Buried under a stone most uncomfortable
Undetected
To be deduced, from what is and what is not

Thereby order could be restored on Sunday
Drilled down to the atomic level of abomination
Established first by logic in the seventeenth century
Light won't pass through the ways of reason
Being solid as it stands

Where souls split into the Adam unnatural at Evening
All men are created equal to their mortal core

The Iliad and Odyssey are read and dead 
In another language long and gone

Sue knows Greek as a 5 letter word 
Greek know Sue more than you know  

Trojans were of another kind of clan
Spoke Luwian at length
Cuneiform or hieroglyphic characters carved

Souls starved for more attention than misunderstanding 
Stood out in their own reflection 
Crawled home in a holy hole for protection

Flashlights are not prescribed for reading Homer
We recommend Sue's interpretation of the past
 
Objects in Archeological pockets are counted
Sins glow in the dark inspected
Calculated to the numerical physicality of being
Extolled by Sue who knows such things
Gold is found without tools to grasp the meaning
Souls unearthed remain with words unspoken
English is not an ancient tongue
Extensions take the dig
Can only go so far
Sue knows who you are
Before it starts

Gamut of History Spans Everyday Life

Analogous, how said month name
     September under went
ramifications throughout millennium
     steeped in blood thirsty antiquity,
     awash with torment,
where most twenty
     first century mortals
     oblivious to such lawlessness

     wretched ultra-violent revilement
existentially going about their
     daily and weekly business
attuned to requisite
     employment as punishment
particularly if role of stoop laborer
     earnings them niggardly pay
     for meager nourishment,

there would be negligible
     leisure time leant
to mull, ponder or scrutinize
     such esoteric rubric
     as preponderance of
     ancient civilizations set precedence
     contributing to present
     without passing judgement

if in fact possessing
     aggressive curiosity hellbent
     interest and/or acutely fervent
     trenchant awareness linkedin
     with what human engineered,
     sans preceding millennial development
     events came about
     to bring the here

     and now space/
     time continuum habiliment,
where a sniveling, groveling, and
     conniving foo fighting beastie boy,
     would be loathe to believe,
nor not in the least
     interested - gives a rats a$$
what farcical betterment prevails during

     this current year
two thousand eighteen, versus where
drama evidenced by
     nothing "FAKE," nor unclear
substantial archeological recorded
     treasure trove evinced severe
of prior momentous human quaere
orgiastic epics Bacchanalian

     (distilled from ancient Egypt,
     classical Greece, enlightened Rome
     peoples played primitive organs 
     (viz, sax and violins) out across
     the then world wide web
     wrought permanent pressed

     customs within part
     ridge didst app pear,
in a tree, reverberated 
     millenniums later, and also asper
     among named twelve months,
particularly when Ides of March near
plus seven days of week.

A Colonized Mind

In the chambers where thoughts are supposed to 
roam free, Foreign voices echo, not belonging to me.

Words planted like flags on conquered territory,
Thoughts that flower in soil not my own.

I speak in tongues my ancestors never knew,
See through lenses ground by hands I never touched.
My dreams are shaped by stories I did not choose,
Yet they feel like home—this borrowed architecture of mind.

Each mirror shows a face divided by history,
Each thought arrives pre-weighted, pre-judged.
I sift through my beliefs like archeological remains,
Wondering which are artifacts of occupation.

The borders of my thinking are invisible chains,
Drawn by mapmakers who never asked permission.
Yet in the margins of these imposed paragraphs,
I find spaces where resistance takes root.

For even a colonized mind can question its borders,
Can recognize the foreign footprints across its landscape.
And in that recognition lies the seed of reclamation—
The first step toward a sovereignty of thought.????????????????

Premium Member Pearl Of The Orient

     Pearl Of The Orient 


           Phillipines !
          Pearl of the Orient seas.
          Nick name used for centuries
          to evoke the allure of Phillipines.
          Pearl symbolising
          country's Natural charm and pride.
          
           Tourism oriented 
           Archeological state with more 
           than seven thousands
           islands of which. 
           five thousands still unnamed
           yet attaining fame,
           attracting tourists on gorgeous welcome.
           Enticing venture to energetic capital Manila.
          
         Natural scenic beauty embellishing islands.
           Lush landscape adorned by 
            stunning coastline ! Superfine.
           Access of sapphire blue water
          and argentine shine on beach.
          Verdant tropical rainforest enriching the land.
          Luxuriant brilliant vibrant
          Rich biodiversity.
          Marine life in abundance.

         Gracious Glorious traditional heritage.
         Blending own native lifestyles
         associated with United States, Europe
        and especially Spain,
        exhibiting unique Phillipines Culture.

         Large volume of Text Messages honoured
        it with another Nick Name ' Text  Capital of World.'
        Specific car Jeepney resembling Jeep 
        is more than a means of public transportation
        but representing
       rescillence and ingenuity of Nation.

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