Short Empires Poems

Nations, people, all,
No spirituality,
We're like empires fall....

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Worms in multitudes,
Strewn empires in the trees:
Palace made of thread....

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With regardless grace,
The dawn succeeds.
We, the midnight revolutionaries,
Are as loud as empires
In the calling black.

The day comes. Our words refuse her....

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flesh or bones or wood 
inch by inch moves this termite ~
eating up empires


10 January 2022
A STRAND (1050) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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Empires fall, other will rise;
toll, bells...time defeats glory!



Entered in nette oncloud's contest,
" In It's Essence "
Written by Andrew Crisci
on 10/14/2014...

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His suits and empires made it so swift
from afar all you saw was his mid-rift
with me you were glowing
our future was moving
from his dark pit, you now expect a lift....

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All Hail Caesar,
the conquering wind

A force of nature
that gusts within

Cities crumble
and empires fall

The shadow of Rome
—covering all

(The New Room: May, 2021)...

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A poetess once told me,
"Power shifts balance all the time
Empires crumble
Wealth and greatness shades too.
The only prosperity you can bed forever is love."
So i married her....

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Memory wanes,
portal to another time;
beings diverse
filter past
upon a screen
past illusions
future delusions
empires 
now tattered
by time’s blade.
...

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Alexander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon too
   Through military conquest empires grew

Pulitzer's Fourth Estate ruled the modern world
   ~ 'til Zuckerberg Facebook, then Meta unfurled...

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Hollow tin-cup chess pieces 
tethered to fate are we
manipulated by forces
   unperceived
landing abruptly in
   alien territories
naïve suppositions
   blown to bits 
on the wreckage of empires...

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The night is asleep with its lamp lit
on the pillow of cottoned clouds
wrapped in sheet of vast welkin
and the breeze running its
fingers through its mane
while crystal stars
like empires
guarding
her.

copyright: 02072017...

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Empires rise,
Legions fall.
Men and women live through it all.
Empires fall,
Legions cross the sea.
Families with men they never again will see.
Empires no more,
Legions disappear.
War is done and people no longer live in fear....

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Skin of indigo
mind says
Ah, here I go
Whiteness
conceptualizes
African
enlightenment
baptized in a river
named I wish 
I could
Never have been
seperated
from empires
turned hood
Basking in
Melinated magnificence
Through her
I see me
King of a black queen...

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The sun will shine and 
Lovers will dine and 
It don't really matter if 
You don't know why 
Clouds up in the sky 
Will keep on floating by 
Even if you ease your mind 
So, give it a try 
The ants will still crawl 
Empires slowly fall 
While we're smiling here 
Year after year...

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Between the dawn of ends and time empires wept wealthy 
where glints of pillars vanished beyond the grass,
alone quiet merchants beneath joined will and turned the gates of golden riches
where tombs set dust and shadows upon a lonely grief and bid a final silent 
sunlight...farewell......

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As you
go about
your journey
on this planet
you come
across things
you think
are permanent,
will last forever
But nothing does!
Everything fades away,
disintegrates into
the convalescent
extremities of the
duration of survival. 
Great empires
are gone. 
Life is short.
That's just
the way
it goes....

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Word-hoards fall from mouth-cups
out along roads, out along seas:
faith migrates; sayings run away; verbs escape; 
nouns meander as memes in other tongues.

Invaders’ words intrude on empires, spill 
cream that soaks our souls, leave 
bones of meaning
lying around.

Etymologists 
will tour 
and devour. 
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This is all in my head, I'm merely dreaming, eternally dead

They say the dead can't dream, I say bullshit! We may be buried but we retain our heads 

Stop time and start over again, don't worry, we'll follow through; we'll do it the same

We'll build empires and fight as we perpetually chip away at the human reign...

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Fall away, fall away
all that is green and gay.
See the world for what it is:
an empty land and grey.

The fire dies in ashes,
the flesh returns to dust.
Children of a distant god,
our empires fall in rust.

Death comes to the living,
he will not come to me.
He comes to those with hope to steal,
the barren souls he leaves....

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The rise and fall of Empires 
The rhythm of existence
The story of Nations 
The sequence of life 

As a Nation as a man 
The story is same
Only appearance differs
The component is the whole 
The Whole is what makes it up

Rising and falling 
Even in one lifetime 
Life maintains its sequence 
Undulating to test the voyager...

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Promiscuous shadows haunt the night
Forging their maps by day
Passing through the ethereal unseen
Lunging lurid luscious

Empires of sadistic interludes teach verse
In exchange for tempered instrumental falsetto
How can the night be so quiet?

In your city, on your street 
Inside
Without warning.

A dog barks and out bursts
The answer....

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Can I be your hero of tomorrow?
I know that I have not been
Your hero of before or today,
But give me a chance to stay
By your side next time,
I know I have unbuilt
Your empires before,
Myself slipping aside
As new problems come ashore,
While my talent seems to be
Removing people's pleasure,
Please let me be your hero
Of tomorrow, a day I might change....

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Destroy moral bounds
Distill the damnation
Produce temporary soothes
Attention deficit deathtrap
Empires made of scrap
Mass media’s contagious
Meant to enslave us
Distracting virus
Never silence
Radio waves
Devils communicate
Observe and contemplate
Wire made noose
Have eyes only for you
Gently rest your neck
Pine sided bed
Cushioned from toe to head...

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I am the one 
   who rises in the east
   and sets in the west,
I am all the best
   of orange, yellow
   pink and red;

With many faces of love 
   I have come
   to build empires 
   of light
   and make bright
   as a fire-sky ----
   a smile for every season,
   and harvest hope ----
   all the while
   the Earth is sleeping
   
   (and I am set)...

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