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  November 2021     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 45 total

Nothingness


I am nothing
Smaller then the smallest grain of sand
Resting at the bottom
Of the lowest valley on Earth
Gazing out into the infinite Universe above me
Welcoming a coming deluge
As I seek a flood of love and knowledge
Cascading from the...

– by Keith Lankford

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The Epic of Gilgamesh: The fall from the Light


Into the darkness
He slowly did fall
As he told the tale
As he left all

The world of the living
Slipping away
To the House of dust
Where he would stay

The angel of death
Had taken his hand
Gilgamesh save me
Make one final stand
...

– by Keith Lankford

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The Trespass

I have two barrels
And they’re bearing down on you
I’m real interested
In what you plan to do
Did you come in peace
Tell me what was your name
Before another fool
Standing before me you came
You see that sign
Look down you see the land
It...

– by Keith Lankford

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The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Scorpion Beings

The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Scorpion Beings

Ishtar at his door offering herself at last
Gilgamesh refrained, much knowledge or her past
The Bull of Heaven shall reign down upon thee
She explained to Anu, or from hell I shall free
The dead to...

– by Keith Lankford

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A Reflection of a Shadow

Just a shadow of a reflection


She was a stranger
In danger of loving me
I looked in the mirror
What couldn’t she see
Eyes staring back
It just can’t be
Broken and crooked
Hanging around endlessly

I wasnt looking
For a project
When I...

– by Keith Lankford

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