Short Relics Poems

Retirement home museum trip to see relics under public care....

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smokers
human relics
societal outcasts
banished to secluded islands
misfits...

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holy shops are filled
with sacred relics acquired
from the bodies shed...

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Unholy heretic
your relics despoil
Augustine in tears
—embracing the shame

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Grand basilicas
built to papal false idols
of graven image -
to apostate relics from
pagan Rome and Babylon!...

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Scaled relics of time
Ancient reptilian living fossils
The Alligator



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature4.php...

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postcards
tattered relics
soft paragraphs wailing
faint memoirs languishingly dampened...
boneless


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Each dawn's debris sort
of wreckage from day before
yields jetsam just junked 
and flotsam break-up relics.
On the beach who can tell which?...

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My chest is double crossed
To defend from demons
A heart protected from evil
Is another life saved by Him
And two radiant relics
Keep me safe
On the Devil’s Earth...

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Bailey's Irish Cream, a delicacy
  Perfect for old country relics, you see
    Joe Biden would take a sip
    Or an elongated nip
  If it weren't for his 'white supremacy'...

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Bonfires of instruments play faded relics
of song.
Hungry enough to steal,fingers beg,know longer
do they hold a lover or hope.
I am a disfigured statue vandalized by currency
of regret....

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You see a wall,
where I see a door

You are imprisoned,
I am implored

You spend your fortune
on relics that burn

I, but a beggar
—last verse heaven earned

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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R ead into what you will
E ntrusted into a religion
L acking proper understanding
I mplicating sinners into false saints
C onflicting souls one at a time, what do you really believe if not in me...

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TIME
passes
timepieces

sundials, water clocks
known relics of past time
timers supplant the hourglass

“I-phones put the wristwatch on hold.”


revised June 21, 2014, Spring Equinox....

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Our love is like a pilot light
Burning long, burning bright
But if that light beomes erratic 
And gas leaks out into my attic
The compresser on my fridge turns on
 Bam! the relics of my life are gone...

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Relics, relics sad and lone,
Cromwell's head and a single bone
that William the Conqueror left on earth
prove today of petty worth.
Oh that now those proud in  power
knew the shortness of their hour....

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As the ocean's anchors - hold the relics old
time engulfs life's sphere - to seize
generation's gold
murkiness of sea - may well
mark the moments slight
oh, but nothing can blot out
the brilliance of the light...

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Leaning pine trees yearn for the open coastline,
needles pointing far and away from vernal
bondage. Left with relics of restless newborn
butterfly's cloister.


for Craig Cornish's 
"Sapphic Stanza Number Three" Contest...

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Read,
escape;
Then share it;
That adventure 
will last for all time;
Before bed give daydreams,
feast on relics from the past;
Passed to the next generation
a gifted storyteller wields the 
mystery and magic of evening tales....

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Geschichte zum Anfassen
Geborgen aus dem Kern der Erde
Relikte des Vergangenen



Living history
Recovered  from the core of the earth
Relics of the past



Historia viva 
Salvado del  núcleo de la tierra
Relictos del pasado...

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Standing by the colosseum
Is the time of the last persecution
When the houses of Caesar
call out for revenge
Byzantine highways have lost their sheen
thwarted tall ships fall
and trumpets sound
relics of soldiers roam
you walk to your fate alone...

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Withering winter 
will fold away 
like relics of old
smashed flat 
inside a musty 
static suitcase,
stacked under 
chaotic blunders 
of wonder.
These photos 
and notes 
unknown for 
ticking moments
will be 
as chilling as 
a blizzard wind 
when revealed again.

12-8-2020...

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But what of shells and ruins
The stories they hold
In silence they ponder
The truths of the past

And what of echoed voices
Do they tell what will be
Friend or foe
Piercing the wind

I also ponder the truth 
As I stand among the relics
And beseech the looking glass 
To speak to me...

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Up the mountain
The forest hides a fountain
Escape the summer madness, 
In cool shade

Ice cold water
Glides through my fingers
Senses awake
A gushing melody Under Ottoman shapes

There's light on the surface
Even oppressors
Leave relics to impress us
This oasis of calmness sedates...

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I bought the shroud of Turin
the vatican had a sale
they have legal expenses
and priests that needed bail.

It was just an old dusty cloth
so I put it in the wash
that Tide detergent, never fails
all the smudges and stuff washed off.

don’t get excited, i was raised a catholic...

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