Short Inscription Poems

The death of a tree
Is praised by an inscription
There's warm in my house...

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this warrior threw his spear
to kill the village head
the headman wed a financier
while he sleeps here dead...

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A Little Nip
To Settle Your Stomach
And Gladden Your Heart
To Warm The Nights
While We're Apart...

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don't knock nor disturb
                          if you good, enter
                       if you are bad, go away...

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World heritage site
Multilingual script
The God's place or land




     http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/places.php...

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beauty's honey sight  
                                             inscription carves over heart
                                                   ellipsis..........inclines...........

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Compressed separation, reality unveiled
Suffocated freedom, identity confronted
Coalesced spaces, vision uncharmed
Memory inscription, chapter closed
Closeness obscure

May 27, 2019...

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"Hey stop
If ye be a poet
Smile through my teeth"


An inscription on a tombstone in memory of Peter Elsewhere who was a poet.







© r.k.chakrabarty
Written on 5th Nov, 2014...

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Even at the very end
Mel Blanc was still cracking jokes.
It's hard to weep, reading his
tombstone inscription: That's all folks!



NOTE: Mel Blanc did the voices for all the Looney Tune characters....

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knock, rest here with assurance
                  we are not rich but we have warm hear
                             we share what we have
                        your coming is a blessing to us all...

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he was no hero
                      a mere farmer from Ahero
                who tendered crops of breed inferior
                                 bow to him
                               he was a man...

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The temple is named after the Flower Mountain,
Yet no flowers are seen and weeds are overgrown.
Planting and weeding must be on the routine list ,
For fair flowers are brief while weeds grow fast.

(tran.)...

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After Dark

The moon splays its splendor.
Red roses somber in vase.
Subliminal shadows, peaked and sallow,
flicker like windswept, willow flame.
Inscription, on her headstone, illuminated.

10/14/2017 ...

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This is the King of the Jews,
The inscription proclaimed to all
Who passed by the cross on Golgotha’s hill.
Pilate could not have known that day
That the words he had inscribed there
Were the TRUTH to mankind revealed....

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The Medallion



I have searched the Earth for Mankind's birth
Stumbled across some petrified wood in the southeast
Inside was a medallion carved with strange markings
An inscription that said, we came in peace

1/4/17
contest Rooting for 8 to 5...

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To those who are weary and burdened
                                                     enter
                            Here you will find rest
                            Mend your troubles
                                                    You will live...

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There is a thombstone in Ohio, with the inscription:
’’Harold Hart Crane:  Lost at sea.“
His words, soaked with tears blossom
Beneath the waves, in lonely, starving hearts
While he sleeps the sleep of the sea
Without his dark passion,
Free at last 
Calm at last...

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Silver string tugs
By the moons inscription
Writing:
“Open to heart’s desire
Left upon the kind
Leaving one to perspire
Towards the unyielding mind”
The moon sends its grace
To the passerby
Filling all with hope
Of a silver thread design

Russell Sivey...

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Six enlightened tunes 
Eight melodies of virtues 
To become acclaimed 
In the ten skies of the Church 
This is the eternal bell


This poem is about a 1,200 year old Manichaean bell (and its inscription) found in Ordu-Baliq (Capital of the Uyghur Khaganate).
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The outstanding artist Pieitro Perugino
loved to put himself on show
He painted self-portraits* to go
with a framed inscription below


*https://www.wikiart.org/en/pietro-perugino/self-portrait-1500


*https://www.wikiart.org/en/pietro-perugino/self-portrait-1500...

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“The strange is the inscription on the wall seen by the gifted. It’s the enigma they run from.”
                         - Quote by Poet 

Losing sight of the light,
Encumbered by the night,
The daylight is not freedom’s way,
There’s a strange for each day.


March 10, 2025....

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a scratch
a scar
        an inscription
carvings 
         as memorials
gravestones
and walls
            of a cave:
I was here
            we were here
we lived
we loved
we died
            now,no one
remembers
              our sighs
              our cries
....... our lives...

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I trace the harden, scars of bark
Merely, a piece of heart has healed
One by one and letter to letter
With tinges of smile as I feel
The puppy love that fades within inscription 
Passions scratched upon a Weeping Willow 
So far away are the lives in parallel 
All abstractions as... statues in a field...

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She has a courage like no others,
Having faith is like a blood veins that will not fade,
Inquisitive about everything she sees or learns,
Running here running there trying to find what's the best,
Inscription is a mystery way of how to rhyme,
Never will lose her focus when reaching a goal....

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Finally,

what I wished for, came to pass.

After many decades of a turbulent life, I managed to reach

the gates of old age!


Now,

 
before them I stand,

pondering at the inscription written above the entrance:

"Enter at your own risk!"








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     02 March 2020...

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