Bodies from Ashes

This was a poem that I wrote for a Latin project but edited in class :) Feel free to tell me what you think. Posted with the knowledge that the Poetry unit starts soon :D Oh, and I'll apologize ahead for the informational overload.

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Slain by fire

Frozen in time

Bodies from ashes

Brought back to light

Sediment piles

Suffocating life

Removal of breath

A terrible sight

August 24th

A. D. 79

Bodies from ashes

A preservation of time

Brought up from the rubble

In ruins, it lay

Pompeii in its splendor

A glimpse of a day

Vesuvius, volcanic

Ashes and rock,

Spewed up in the sky

Brought down in a shock

The earth, it shook

Causing great tremors

An eruption that lasted

Many long hours

Ash fell like the rain

Hot, gray, and dry

Burning through throats

Of those who will die

Pyroclastic waves

Of poisonous gas

Cover the city

And kill off the last

The screams, the cries

Of burning pain

The tragedy struck

The city lay tamed

Bodies from ashes

Preserved in the dust

Kept safe from decay,

Erosion and rust

Scientific discoveries

The first of their kind

Bodies from ashes

A picture of time

Now emotions lay frozen

In the faces, inlayed

To show the terror

Of a day in Pompeii