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Category: Marathon Poem
Relics of the Future
The cache in casket buried Exhumed as a signpost of immeasurable information Aha! Relics of the future iPad iPhone iPod iMate iTV We, the future, are now in the present Modern army will cultivate Another capsule For another farmer For another rain
The Inverted Word
Interpretation and understanding reside When the Word itself—is inverted As Truth is said to—confide The meaning must be converted Fixed in the opposite order For light to shine in darkness Interpreted by its own author But by the mirrored image’s strangeness Strangeness…
The Chalice of the Goddess of War
(for hour 5—time capsule prompt—put in the world of Onweald) The Chalice of the Goddess of War More than four hundred years have passed Since the wizard Hrazon accepted his quest When prophets announced the lots were cast And he placed her…
Hour 5, Hands
Hands They open the casket and I ask if I can hold your hand a callused time capsule of every choice you’ve ever made, particles clinging from the skin you last caressed, hairs on the back moving under the fans – the only part…
Poem #4 — Haiku
Metamorphosis A gradual transition From youth to adult
“Twenty-Four”
“Twenty-Four” All you need is twenty-four, All you need to do is keep positive, All you need is to graduate, All you need is get a respectful job, All you need is to find love and start a family, All you need is to succeed,…
5 Reflection
All my lovers were worth it Even when I cried and tried To understand why they left Or stopped being kind I had them each at their best And most wonderful as they Were full of pride and beauty I was their proven prize…
Poem #3 — Haiku
Wandering alone The solitude calms my mind Revelations come
Hour 5… time capsual
the storm has passed, like all storms do me, i made it, but as i walk the new day l see all have not, the ancient legs of the snow gum have been pulled from the earth line upon line of its history bared and…