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By Samantha Terrell
(Twitter: @honestypoetry
Website: SamanthaTerrell.com)
—Reburied Revelations—
(Inspired by “Archaeologists Rebury ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Roman Villa,” Smithsonian
Magazine)
Coming home from Scarborough Fair
She tucks her head,
Leans into the wind
A little. Where did she intend
To go, knowing
Festivals are prone to ending?
Now, isn’t much different
Than Medieval or Roman Ones.
We still cover over our tracks,
and if we’re nice enough —
Those of others.
—To Rise—
Once upon a time,
God unzipped the sky
And the world fell out of its pocket, and
Humankind looked up from that world
And saw that sky and said, "I will go there, and be amongst the clouds,"
Never knowing
It was there from which they'd fallen, not realizing
The world needed
Picking back up again.
But, the sky! It was vast and glorious, and a grand distraction.
Getting up in the clouds wasn't as easy as it looked. Reaching around up there
was dangerous
And endless,
And time-consuming.
Once, when
Someone was up there fumbling around,
They brushed by a cold, foreign, lifeless thing — could it be a zipper pull? It
couldn't be worth grabbing onto. Better to come back down.
But down below, things were messy and chaotic. In fact, gazing upward
Seemed the only way to find peace. Finally, after doing a lot of looking upward,
humankind discovered
A task for which it was uniquely suited —
Picking themselves up again, since picking things up works best with opposable
Thumbs and a yearning soul.
About the Author:
Samantha Terrell is an internationally published American poet and author whose work has received five-star reviews.
In 2021, she received First Honorable Mention in the "Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Awards" organized by Poets Without Borders.
Her most recent book, Things Worth Repeating?, features an invented form — the poetic trinitas. Terrell and her family reside in upstate New York.
You can follow Samantha Terrell on her:
Twitter: @honestypoetry
Website: SamanthaTerrell.com
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