Dead Pompeii | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Sonnet
  4. Dead Pompeii

Dead Pompeii

February 6, 2012
By K.Spirit PLATINUM, Nashville, Tennessee
More by this author
K.Spirit PLATINUM, Nashville, Tennessee
26 articles 0 photos 4 comments
View profile

She spins her threadbare wool while on her porch
Her eyes are swelled and closed, the trait of sages
The charcoal grays between the black look scorched
Her pepper hair is thin from fires or ages
A mystic cradled in an ancient place
Of dead Pompeii, a part of peeling lore
Like weathered paint that’s left the wood’s embrace
But stays a part of what it was before
Whose eyes give answer to a long sought plot
A flick of trickling green, a thread of gold
A tale of wealth, archaic surfeit lost
Remote and ashy, times that have grown cold
But she in all her primal ways have learned
That breaths forgotten speak through cities burned

© Gary C., Pequannock, NJ

Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
Explaining Myself
By mavaabrat3 PLATINUM
Palm Harbor, Florida
mavaabrat3 PLATINUM, Palm Harbor, Florida
23 articles 0 photos 0 comments
View profile
Poetry
Tommorow
By hannahbee7 DIAMOND
Boca Raton, Florida
hannahbee7 DIAMOND, Boca Raton, Florida
67 articles 1 photo 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You know you’re a writer if your friend tells you a heartbreaking story and your first reaction is – wow, that would make an incredible plot for a novel. You know you’re a smart writer if you manage to keep that reaction to yourself."

View profile
Poetry
Take me
By hannahbee7 DIAMOND
Boca Raton, Florida
hannahbee7 DIAMOND, Boca Raton, Florida
67 articles 1 photo 65 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You know you’re a writer if your friend tells you a heartbreaking story and your first reaction is – wow, that would make an incredible plot for a novel. You know you’re a smart writer if you manage to keep that reaction to yourself."

View profile
Poetry
truth
By breebee GOLD
Lawrence, Kansas
breebee GOLD, Lawrence, Kansas
13 articles 0 photos 3 comments
View profile
Poetry
You & Me
By bluemagnet22 PLATINUM
Dearborn Hts, Michigan
bluemagnet22 PLATINUM, Dearborn Hts, Michigan
24 articles 16 photos 644 comments

Favorite Quote:
You were born an origanal why die a copy?The secret to success is the consistency to pursue.To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world.To receive the right answer,you must ask the right question.Don't worry be happy! :)

View profile
Poetry
Lost in Love
By bluemagnet22 PLATINUM
Dearborn Hts, Michigan
bluemagnet22 PLATINUM, Dearborn Hts, Michigan
24 articles 16 photos 644 comments

Favorite Quote:
You were born an origanal why die a copy?The secret to success is the consistency to pursue.To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world.To receive the right answer,you must ask the right question.Don't worry be happy! :)

View profile

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.