Layer cake of time
...Touching time, towering, vast
Time stands high in grand relief.
Layered stories trace the past,
Etched in stone, stark and brief
As I wander through a layered cake of time.
Guarding the desert,...
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Categories:
petroglyph, earth, metaphor, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow's Petroglyph
...In the back
of my mind
there’s a shadow
Covering
what’s never
to be
In the back
of my mind
there’s a memory
Reminding
what’s dearest
to me
In the back
of my mind
there’s a longin...
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Categories:
petroglyph, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Petroglyphs
...Petroglyphs scattered
All over Hawaii
Carved on black volcanic rocks
Mysterious they are
Stoke human curiosity
Unendingly
Human and other forms
Numbers and writings
Carved by the island’s a...
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Categories:
petroglyph, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Excavation of Truth
...Walking in the desert of some foreign land
I saw an artifact jutting from the sand
Then, suddenly, I felt time and space shift
While studying the enigmatic petroglyph
The relic guided me to a bur...
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Categories:
petroglyph, how i feel, i
Form: Rhyme
Riding Route 66 With the Wind On Our Faces
...The bike was loaded and packed
The duffle bag strapped to the rack
The air was crisp when we started out at dawn
In the early morning hours we were gone
Down the road with the wind on our faces
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Categories:
petroglyph, memory, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Cavern
...in a cavern
my petroglyph shimmers with color
prisms of inner feelings
reflecting in an underground pool
my thoughts tumble and scream
echoing against limestone walls
returning to me as a whisp...
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Categories:
petroglyph, inspirational, introspection
Form: Free verse