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Tomb Escape

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Memory hovers

On darkened clouds

Corpse is rotting

In it's shroud

Face imprinted

On binding cloth

Image distinctive

Muscle lost

Death of flesh

Is ether's gain

No regrets

For long it reigned

Flesh fiction

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 7th Jun 2022 17:07

Good one, Ruth, if slightly chilling.

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Ruth O'Reilly

Tue 7th Jun 2022 16:53

Thanks to everyone who liked this. NigeI i always wanted to be tomb raider I reckon! Disturbing Devine is a great lineโญ This was actually one of my alternative jubilee poems ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

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Nigel Astell

Tue 7th Jun 2022 10:40

Curse struck
Tomb raider
Slow death
Disturbing divine
Sacred Pharaoh.

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