Best Maps Poems

Professor Hapgood’s studies on ancient maps were fixed
Einstein said his theories should be added to history’s mix
Perhaps it proved too big a leap for other minds to take
But his ancient culture findings, Hapgood would not forsake

6000 BC, before Egypt’s pyramids were built
Millennia before Pompeii’s lava...

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This map has grown lines,
deep creases, curled corners,  
since you've been gone.
Tear-stains and fingerprints
mar its wrinkled pages like scars,
mocking markers 
of where you've gone.

Mum's face has grown lines
around her mouth and eyes
since you've been gone.
And each sunrise tallies the days, 
fading the map's mosaic...

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Veins blue as death but they flow,
tributaries in a returning system.

They fork only when the mind
rides a lightly sleeping cycle
to...

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At times, Spanish becomes
An incomprehensible 
Tangle of strange words
Like strange woods
And unfamiliar sounds
That roll like hills
And confuse my senses-
English is my natural
Habitat, but to my lover,
English is a new land
Which still feels altogether
Unfamiliar under his feet...
So in the moments
We cannot find enough
Common ground to
Communicate with
Spoken...

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in daylight’s grace, a casteless sphere revolves
           poignant maps emerge at night
              the wealthy shine like stars

kimo (10-7-6) syllables...

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Positive mental map messages
contain no more or less effective information
than appositional negatives notnot.
Both language map
and spacetime's notnot body referents
ecosystems of organic binomial life
loving and leaving days and time and lives
changing our collective DNA map
as mind experiences and dreams and imagines
our better richer sacred liturgy
fending off...

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Topography- embrace its meaning
Open roadways- visually gleaning

State boundaries- further we'd proceed
Connect-the-dots- we'd follow their lead

Deepened creases- a wider landscape
Artful tearing- revived with clear tape

Thumbprint dirt stained- unplanned souvenirs
Revisited- discovered frontiers

3-10-2021...

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out of sorts like something's missing
seems everything in life is preordained
vaguely sense today's unfilled blessing
maybe that's why life feels estranged

once, not enough, maybe all that we get
to glean from fields, our fruit and wheat
satiate our bellies, taste little regret
life's experiences that to us, taste sweet

if...

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London is bewildered by its roads
The Circular, the North,the South,  the Codes
The Morse  and the  Enigma Turing broke
So now we have new bicycles with spokes

Once we had the A to Z  in hand
Turn it upside down and you’ll be grand
New technology...

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DNA maps the way,
there is a very vast 
difference in people;
from head to knees,
from nose to toes,
from eyes to thighs,
from arms to palms,
from ears to rears;
DNA maps the way,
it's relied on in Science,
pretty much,everyday! 

Copyright McCuen 2009...

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The kings and their crusaders are forgotten, 
No one reads about them anymore,
The flowers that the princess held are rotten, 
Crushed beneath her slipper on the floor.

The chivalry of knights-in-armor’s ended, 
Fading like a fable into Time,
The castles and the walls are undefended, 
Empty like...

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Word

Selection is 

Apparently the

Map of the 

World for the

Individual..

Separation's

Terms from

Struggles of

Daily survival..

Or more settled

Words of science

Religion or

Contemplation..

Searching for

The better word..

All are stories

Maps of separation

Things of beauty

And of horror..

May we speak of

Escape..??...

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PASSION     FOR     MAPS

Like an addict to the cartograph
I can never get enough.
Only maps are the real stuff  -
Without them life is tough.

Maps showed me how to find  Cuba  - 
A thrill  to see...

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I’m staring at the bottom of another empty bottle,
What am I doing here?
I’m staring down another weekend of mediocrity,
Why am I not doing something?
All I’ve heard, all my life – a well of untapped potential,
Were they wrong, or am I?
I have a map, but no...

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** THE GLORIES NEAR **

Here! The Glories have arrived from 
   afar..as far as east from west.
The Glories come riding mists
To lead us leaping over our discontent; 
   over waves lost from their beaches,
  their glimmers grayed,and moon sunken.

The Glories...

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