Showing posts with label ancient times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient times. Show all posts

30 September 2016

Poem-A-Day #214 : Antikythera

Antikythera

                                        Your body - only
                    a mass of color - sitting on the floor
                              doing its nails red

                                   After the smelting
               there is a small man-shaped lump
                         in the bottom of the cauldron

                              Iron mandrake - it screams
          once into the darkness of life
                    and then vomits its poison on the concrete floor

                         You have been Midas-ed
     if we buried you - the future
               would think your heart Antikythera

                    Your heart is indecipherable as is
paint my toes red as well
          my gnarls of gold are cold


The Antikythera Mechanism

01 June 2016

Poem-A-Day #93 : Boudica

Boudica*

Part heroine - part terrorist

Just what you need to build an empire
                       or destroy it


Boadicea & Her Daughters - Thomas Thornycroft 1902
Source - steeve flikr

*Found poem taken from the script for the Boudica episode of Warrior Women