Short Antiquity Poems

Short Antiquity Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Antiquity by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Antiquity by length and keyword.


The Maker of Roses and Violets

The Maker of violets and roses 
Gave a land to the tribes led by Moses
In antiquity
For eternity
And all of humanity knows it.
Form: Limerick


Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXXVII osbert

Symbolist Alphonse Osbert
painted with post-impressionist flair
in his 'Evening antiquity' *
his poetic visuals were set free.
art
Form: Ekphrasis

The Place Where the Lost Things Go

I'll become collective

as an antiquity

You have crushed me like a glass

And stepped over

Now my pieces are stuck in your heels

And 
you are carrying me everywhere

Gem

An echo in tone sublime
Stretching from antiquity
Chimes are heard and time
Stops!
Pulsating in all directions
Coming towards me in great hast
Whispering your name


Michael

Premium Member Antiquity

Memories Renewed by scene A heart carved in sapling Mighty red oak thirty foot high Heirloom
Memories can be pronounced mem-o-ries or mem-ries
Form: Cinquain


Premium Member Magic

To receive magic, to break the antiquity of sorrow
Debate reason then face the dire reality of a long night
Face humanity with due cause, burn it all down to start over


contest...One Days Magic

6/27/14
Form: Sijo

Premium Member EARTHLY DREAMS

EARTHLY DREAMS
antiquity 
habitual
 preserved
  naturally
     depicted
in
traced
  traditions
transient
alluring
 processes 
of
naive 
   sentimental
similar 
   guise
of
revivalist
interest
Form: Verse

Premium Member Ancient Structures

Structures from antiquity have intrigued me no end How they achieved such feats I can't comprehend Moving mammoth stones Caused grunts and groans Must have taken superhuman strength, perhaps hemp
Form: Limerick

Dewdrop

absence of a melody
          was wrenching
          on the face of a song

surface tension –
a venom creeps
surging in twin black eyes

you raise your price
in extremes
unburdening of embryonic waste

outsider
matches his death
          with antiquity 


SATISH VERMA
art
Form: ABC

Omambala In February

Present since antiquity 
Sustaining humanity 
Participating in the dance 
The seasonal variation 

Tired and weak after the annual labour 
As if the water is abandoning it's track 
Allowing traders erect shops on her path
Awaiting the rains to replenish the volume

Revival

It  is still  the same
subtle and fresh.
Your voice deep 
like a grave dark wood,
invades my antiquity.
The chasm within 
transports my existence ;
denudes me 
and it cast a pall on my sanity.
Disheveled
Grotesque
My own reflection 
deceives me.
So lonely 
and desperate.
Form: Verse

Dewdrop

absence of a melody
          was wrenching
          on the face of a song

surface tension –
a venom creeps
surging in twin black eyes

you raise your price
in extremes
unburdening of embryonic waste

outsider
matches his death
          with antiquity 


SATISH VERMA
Form:

Premium Member Teapot

Teapot






Hymns a sweet morning will sing,
As teapot pours freshness,
In bowl of great antiquity,
To start the day with zing,
Hymns a sweet morning will sing.




A prized refrain- 7/6/8/6/7
Written August 5th, 2015
© Dr. Upma A. Sharma
Inspired by pic#2 in nette's contest
Form: Verse

Premium Member Empty Shoebox


The shoebox lay in antic muddle,
gathered the dust of antiquity.
When time came to clear the clutter
I held awhile the frail cardboard carton,
found inside emptiness with memory specks,
heard the echo of faded footsteps,
felt the pulse of the distant life 
I had since walked away from.
Form: Other

Walking Toeless

Stone by stone you kill me.
Petal by petal I die –


holding a scalpel
to unwrite my name.

Violence
erupts among words.
A temple breaks.
O goddess ! don’t cry beyond silence.

The infant’s milk
spills in darkness.
Antiquity raises a wall
around the mother.

I am vanishing now,
freezing my assets. 



Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Premium Member Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor In Mylapur

Limerick: Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur

Once a Meat-Vendor in Mylapur*
Set up shop (O!) Brahmin virtue pure
No hungry customers
Knocked past the front shutters
Though brisk business raged at rear door.

•	Brahmin enclave in Chennai, Tamil-Nadu, India.
Brahmins were not vegetarians from antiquity.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

On Going Epitaph

of all the poets I have read
and loved the most are dead
impressions they have left with me
with gentle touch that meant so much
are part of olde antiquity
for they were dead e'er I was born
though not yet gone the pictures stay
and rondelays go on 
kipling through my mind
what word's worth a
pound or tenny
son
what wall do 
emers own ?
Form:

33 Reasons

I have 33 reasons
      Why I won’t go home.
   I am a loyalist
                    Tortured by iniquity
          Captive of antiquity
But the snake inside me
      Is unfolding its fibers of cypress
      And the water is thicker than blood
                                   I have 33 reasons
                                         Why I wont go home.

Premium Member In the White Noise of Elegy

Her pale face is voided antiquity,
a paper-thin line

fallen fresh
from flowery fallacy 

to hardwood floor, coiled 
cold & blue in landing;

words, like little 
droplets of April rain,

a distant deluge
of drought parsing orange

Hemerocallis petals

trenching 
around her.

To see it unfold.

Bent at the altar,
Spring’s forgotten daughter can’t.

Premium Member About Face

Listen to poem:
About Face
David J Walker

It is about face 
About time and place
And direction 
And unoccupied space 
In East or West that 
We face

And the unknowing of 
which is  forward or 
backward or north 
or south

the illusion of which is
up and which is down

bound by the gravity of
anticipation in

each new moon and season
Named for the gods lost
To antiquity
Form: Rhyme

I Live Here


Do you know where I live?
I live in Rome
I live in Greece
I live in Egypt too
These three great kingdoms of antiquity
have all faded into obscurity
So I ask you,
do you know where I live?
Syracuse once was a great city
in ancient Rome
Philadelphia once was a great city
in ancient Greece
Memphis once was a great city
in ancient Egypt
Now, do you know where I live?
Form: Bio

Minds Eye

A formidable tale...

Ravaged with pure insight,

unforeseen embellish warning,

Divine gift inherited...

Driven by antiquity...

forces unraveled...

the aforesaid...the yet unmentioned...

Dejavue...suspended...deluge familiar...

outpouring without denial...

silent surprise on the outer...

immersed in a sphere of wait...

controversial alignment...

Spectator foretells undulate.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member ANCESTRAL MURMURS

This poem is written in the Parallegram de Crystalline form:

cedar breath  
rising like spirit-wind  
wakens names sleeping beneath the grain

softly-latched  
quiet as moon-shadow  
closing veil between now and before

amber glow  
floating like olden prayers  
circling the chest in a soft halo

memories
wait in antiquity   
ancestral murmurs drift through soft light

Not So Ancient Reality.....

The Nebra Disc.....
tool of antiquity,for them then
not so ancient reality.....

As above,so below
to fall,to recieve

Cup shaped vessel
recieve messages celestial
on the outer edge,left to right
images of darkness and light
from chaos to order,heavenly sight

Shamanist or cosmologist
destined order should be humanist
animalistic we continue
as we struggle to evolve,altruistic....

Premium Member Tribute To a Major Appliance

Stove is a device used for heating or
cooking food.
There are wood, coal, electric and
gas stoves.
Oven is a part of the stove used for
baking cakes and other recipes.

Stofa is an old english word used
in the antiquity.
The first stoves were used in Rome.
Modern stoves has a glass top.

Stoves come in many sizes and colors.
An appliance that has been very beneficial
to modern kitchens.

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