Millennia Poems - Poems about Millennia

THE SCAVENGERS

...For millennia,
the scavengers have spread chaos across the Earth.

They sow desolation
for sterile chimeras,
for fleeting vanities.

If I had held the power of creation,
this cursed planet
w...

Fulcrum of a Rose?

...
To be fair, Shakespeare 
got the jump on roses,
used up all the best descriptions.
It's bad enough we're out here 
pretending to be Ada Limón and Billy Collins,
only to wax about the break
of...

THE EMBERS OF MY MEMORY

...My heart of stone quenches its thirst in the dirty hands of misery.
The tears of my family tree run down the scarred faces of their history.
The pain of my color screams in silence the secrets thes...

The Most Beloved Among Earthlings

...The Most Beloved Among Earthlings
Thank you, Mr. Calin Georgescu, for the hope that flows like a river through our souls,
For changing our mindset like a garden blooming under the warm light of the...

The door in between

...There is a door no one speaks of.
It is not built of stone, nor carved in the timber of old houses,
but hidden deep in the marrow of the world
where beginnings were never written,
only uttered on...

There's a river meandering through the mind

...Vast as a landscape, not a straight but a meandering one
Sometimes placid sometimes storms, but always moving
It is alive; always flowing getting lost in eddies of distraction
Sense of timelessnes...

New Beginnings

...All alone in my silent confessions 
  long I have dwelt on secret battles fought,
and poison arrows of those obsessions 
  alas might pierce my last refuge methought.
But having crossed my Ru...

***** REPUBLIC

...They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet...

The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide To Trees

...the silver birch
it likes to hide
so as you search 
at eventide
you find it there with many friends
playing poker through the night

the common oak 
a wise old man
an aging folk 
since time...

Dot Dot Dot

...What do you do
when your head feels like
a million pounds,
your chest is buried
underground,
where worms and slugs
and filth abound,
and rocks compound overhead,
compounding a heaviness
whic...

All The World's A Stage

...Is our striving worthy?  Are we but actors on the stage of life and oblivious to it?  Here, the background isn't factual, yet the pain is!  For millennia, we have explored the existential man, who, a...

THE ONES WE SHOULD BE LISTENING TO

...
The other day we met a woman… 
who had two reactions to the shirt I happened to wear
at first she smiled…
then she walked up to us and immediately began to share…?
My shirt had a mouse reading ...

The Golden Mean

...The Golden Mean

A simple mathematical ratio: 1.1.618
All nature in its simplicity follows this mean
Shapes pleasing to the eye
All in natural proportion 
Flowers on a plant
Leaves on a tree
...

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i

...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alte...

Repentance

...Indulging in wealth and abundance,
The people make feasts with a dance.
Slaves in the fleeting world forget their story,
Let us not throw stones at millennia of history!

Why do we erase the pas...

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