Short Ancients Poems

socratese,plato
philosopher's of ancients
pre-religious ruse...

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rolling thunderheads
searing lightning scorched the earth
ancients cast bones...

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I speak
Though words are far.
In the tongue of ancients,
Here shall I abide in love.
I sing...

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The ancients will appear
Dressed as love and despair
Granting the wishes
Of the souls who dear...

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The ignorant, the useless, the powerless
ancients had it right, then
came the cleverness
now look
Look!...

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Senryu 7-7-2016

ancients vision
searching for fulfillment
stone polished sand


John G. Lawless
7/7/2016...

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my friend and I toil
all day long the thirst and sweat
planting with each seed
a bow to the ancients
fire earth air and water...

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these branches and roots
that cord to the grave ancients
should be free from man’s swords!
both oracle and priest held for days …...

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Calm

First
calm erratic 
moments
suspend
and catch
exciting past
then bury it
with the ancients 
the danger
is now
last....

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egypt calls to me
a past life there beckons and
i visit in dreams
scenarios rolling by
what ancients sages reveal

...

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sky.  trees
in time, ancient.
ones with the sea,
from a far.
light travels,
faster than sound.
expanding into another galaxy.
flowers remain with the ancients....

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Claudia aka 
Lady Jade Lioness
You are a light on my world
You are love by your looks
We are what the ancients
Call many things
Most of all
Love

I.M.
tj...

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sing me her songs
her songs amongst the old rocks & mounts
her ancients songs
amid those pages & their kings
when mansa musa was the prince
& sundiata was in preeminence

(to be continued)...

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Feel the sky quake, and gaze upon this cosmic Fall;
Let the Ancients guide you through the glory of all.
The Creatures stir, awoken from their timeless sleep;
Stand now, and become lost in the Deep....

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Are we really disputing beliefs of the past
Evolution makes us think we have surpassed
Basic skills back then
We surely do transcend
But their abilities were amazing and really vast...

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Are we really disputing beliefs of the past
Evolution makes us think we have surpassed
Basic skills back then
We surely do transcend
But their abilities were amazing and really vast...

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Facial parts, a trophy of war to be feared
“Mimizuka” are mounds of noses and ears, how weird
Those guys were sadistic
Maybe a bit animalistic
What drove these ancients to be so hedonistic...

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pork chop sandwich with onions,
and the smell of daddies leather coat,
I'm not much for crying.
Brought to our knees
by our ability to live,
struggle and pain cover the pillars
of the ancients
with
our
blood....

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tre three penny das ta do
 juniper juniper the opened mass
 turn over your yarn
 to the tormentors
 stir the pot
 breach of peace

 the ancients taught
 a silo bent through an accord
 the time has come
 all for one...

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crystal clear night
diamonds on black velvet cloth
myriad of stars

~

ancients visualised images 
of animate and inanimate objects
a celestial collage.


Written on 10th May 2020....

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Basking in emptiness
reality takes a back seat
dream flight discarnates
dependent origination
karmic kisses enclosed



(Title--term used by ancients to describe
negative karmic patterns passing from body
to body, plaguing one's earthly psyche.)...

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Telling the bees my secrets
just as the ancients told theirs.

The only reason is another star, 
or the dying of our beauty.

Ignorance is the definer 
of your bliss.

Stay where you are, not willing to come in;
not willing to sieze the sun or the moon....

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I wonder how bright the stars were
When there was no electricity to drown them out
When the ancients roamed the earth
At a time, of building with stones
Did they look up as much
as we look down at our phones?


Kale Brereton
July 14th/18
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Inspired by and dedicated to Jan Allison and the amazing moorland bird, the Ptarmigan.

nights... no clouds... moonlit
shadows race over moorland
double silhouettes 

~~

deemed monsters... shadows
the ancients misnamed... fauna...
double silhouettes


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Once deactivated,
       after forgotten,
        played were the
        ancients toys...
       after finished
        all jokes
        and merriment... what do we have!?
        We are "STATUES"
        from Internet...
         dippy, daffy
          of technology... !...

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