Of history’s walls
None proved more ineffective
Save to rally mobs
Obsolete as built
Unfit for useful purpose
Divisive folly
The wall crumbles still
Allegorical symbol
Relic of its age
For Day 26 of Na/GloPoWriMo2017, NaPoWriMo.net challenges us to consider what future archaeologists, whether human or from alien civilization, will make of us? Today’s poems should seek answer that question, exploring a particular object or place from the point of view of some far-off, future scientist.
A shoot will rise up
From the roots of Jesse’s stump
A Branch will bear fruit
Foreseen by Israel’s prophets
A King born to save the world
written in response to today’s prompt at The Daily Post, and in spired by Isaiah 11:1
How strange to behold
The Eye of Agamotto
Infinite marvel
written in response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #Challenge #146 – “Behold” and “Eye”, and inspired by the Marvel comics and cinematic universe.
Behold your brother
Remove the plank from your eye
Before his small speck
written in response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #Challenge #146 – “Behold” and “Eye”, and inspired by Jesus’s teaching in the gospel of Luke at 6:42
Faith Unlocked 