Long Sarcophagus Poems

"Papyrus, Lapis Lazuli and the Valley of the Kings - Part 1"
 
“Tell me about the Valley of the Kings”, her lips moved speaking 
to someone, 
sitting somewhere 
on the other side of the Glass...

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great expectations
anticipated in the 
poetic heart 
Havisham delivered
all and more for love, 
a separate unseen thief, 
tore the others’ worlds apart

webs like ectoplasm
from underneath a rock
scurrying swiftly out of sight
wrapped tight around a child
dressed in...

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Schooled in hard knock sufferance... -
soulful scribe matt er fact - seeks solemn sanctuary

Despite always pledging
allegiance to the flag
academic performance traced, narrated,
graphed... unfavorable zigzag

vertical lined spikes across
x-axis and y-axis displayed
dramatically sharper increased crag
when promoted one...

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Gazing, at its own reflection is the Magpie.
A magic bird, a mystical creature, with a soul
and the power to see things, the power of scrying.
It sees a tomb in ancient Egypt. It sees death.
A soul...

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(not that ye wondered, 
but simply tubby like totally tubularly clear
The Epic of Gilgamesh will not be extolled here).

Though thoroughly well mapped, parsed,
     scrutinized vibrant wonders zoom
plethora, sans newly discovered life...

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DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE EMOTIONAL ISSUES
I was born in a land far, far away called... home. 
Not yet still-born. 
A place of iced mountain mazes, 
that were once warm, like an oasis of...

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An old man’s Dream

I have this dream – no !, a burning desire
to be with a woman willing to light my fire.
- Not as in the past – placed on a funeral pyre,
there to be...

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Land of Graves

A land of graves makes for quiet neighbors.  
He who blessed or cursed extant thereupon remains 
Shall suffer little disturbance at the will of his resting countrymen.  
The deep silence of...

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Inspiring coffins side by side they lay
Cemeteries are old, eerie, and so beautiful to me today
Walking amongst the tombstones - I feel a calm peace
Of how bad these souls want so desperately again to breathe
Semicircles...

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- -     Deplorable Dora    - - 
                  
Destined to request the...

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If this here deep inside the depth
of the Great Pyramid was in fact
meant to be

A burial chamber for the felled 
Pharaoh King himself

To ascent and assimilate his procession
and onward journey into the afterlife 

And this...

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Like a broken faucet, your poisonous acid waters the ground
Trapping yourself in an assassin's disguise - suffocation there's no sound
With every one of your weapons - strewn across your Gucci belt
Psychopaths and Sociopaths - can't...

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Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads,
The echo of a twilight stifles discreetly on the plain bound for eternal crossing;
Floating, floating over the velvet of darkness seeking its release.
Diaphanous sages, adorned...

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It’s a ballet of carefully choreographed mistakes
a tiptoe dance through a delicate maze 
a sudden splinter to catch a thorn
barefoot floor where the eggshells are strewn

Playing the hide and seek of apology 
the simple words...

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OPPRESSED

A Poem by Debbie_Philly 
" Life and feeling "
 
              OPPRESSED
 
 
I feel so confined inside this sarcophagus that is my...

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Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening beads its somber pearls,
An echo of twilight suffocates discreetly across the plain towards eternal passing;
It floats, it floats over the velvet blackness seeking escape.
Ethereal sages, adorned with the...

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1/9/17


With this no harm I meant
Life is marvelous

Faster than rocketships
Entering a higher level of consciousness
Around nautilus, hippopotamus other species and hominids
Another song I give
While realizing and accepting it may not be that long I live

I...

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6/5/22


In the distance a faint light
Paying my respects at a gravesite

During the day light
And the late night
Humans always got something to say right?
Endlessly they fight
Me against them, it's like an orca verse a great white

I'll...

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By Laura Dee Battle
June 12, 2013

I've realized
These smile lines
Are hypnotized
Through tired eyes

Make it whole
The heart you stole
No light is shone
I feel alone

Promises made
False serenades
Refusing to see
The space between

Cannot believe
How you and me
Endure the solstice
Of lonely...

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In a dark, dark room, 
an eerie aura surrounds; 
deathly whispers crawl in the air, 
sounding like incantations. 

A sarcophagus lays still in the room, 
whispers oozing out of it; no one knows 
that the...

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We come into this world, kicking and screaming, like boisterous butterfly birth.
We have nothing to our names, but flesh and bone that bear witness, of Element Earth.
Copper granules mixed with sunshine and water (amalgamations like...

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Sarcophagus beetles gnaw on these bones
buried in the catacombs
They still have zombie feast needs of me 
long after I’m gone

The scratching on the whited stones
of the sunken mausoleum,
brings the chorus of the viol worms to...

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The Bride and the Gambler

On the cool forest floor, 
she flows, 
like the fog rolling, away.
and guardian beasts held in stoic capture.

As the cold Night it steals a Gamblers Stare.
It leaves well enough alone,
folds it's...

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When At Her Sepulchre I Heard Her Ask

From her sepulchre she sent her calls
or was it from my darkest midnight walls.
Yet in those calls, mixed was love and hate
and many mysteries of angry Fate.

Some nights...

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Please don't bury me
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

Please don't bury me under that apple tree
So beautiful and abundant
It needs space for life to experience
Its shade and soft mossy feet

Please don't bury me in a grave
Underneath a drab...

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