Dream time for an ancient land



Dream time for an ancient land
and its native people
songs of the aborigines in the
land of forgotten time

Deep in inner caves
ancient paintings
hand prints sprayed on stone
murals of another time
layers upon layers of when time began
tell a historic tales of tribal lives on a crimson land
oral traditions written in stone
legions of the deep within the bushes soul

Dance to the spirit of the burning flames
painted faces in earth like tones
dream keepers of the earth
where ancient ceremony come to life
in rings of fire beyond a yellow sun

Didgeridoos mystical sounds
echo  in the background
of a silver moon as the burning stars  
fly over the liquid sky

About this poem

inspired by indigenous Aboriginies culture

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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXB XXCBXACX XXXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 661
Words 123
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 5, 4

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