"petroglyph" poems
I spent my 20th birthday in a petrified forest
It meant nothing and I sweat very much
I wonder how it feels to be petrified, how it feels for
Nature to memorialize you,
Laid to rest until coal-covered hands unearth you
Gingko and sassafras and yew feel the sun’s aged, dotted hands caress all over
This is how it feels.
A petroglyph carved from ancient basalt
And my dad carrying our dog on his shoulders.
15.5 million years of layered rock and
Worrying about the size of my legs next to yours.
Ice age floods exposed crystalized bark and
You wipe the **** off your shoe and we drive some more.
Dec 2, 2024
Dec 2, 2024 at 11:49 PM UTC
"I am engraving this piece of rock
poetry is known
in the twenty-first century zone"
© 2022 Carol Natasha Diviney
Sep 2, 2022
Sep 2, 2022 at 6:46 AM UTC
Tell Me Little Woman
Are You An Artist Of Stone Art?
That You Waited This Long...
Just So They Bully And Turn My Heart To Stone
Only For You Soulmate,
To Come And Carve Your Name Into It
A Love Forever Scripted In Stone
The Purpose Of Love's Pain Atoned
©josh
Dec 19, 2022
Dec 19, 2022 at 1:08 PM UTC