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Ode to Easter Island
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Ode to Easter Island |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
Could those lichen clad granite lips but speak, that stone formed countenance call its features to contort, Would you tell me faithful sentinel; On what dread Medusa did you cast those unsuspecting eyes? Or could your kin reveal, if their watchful eyes, unblinking, cold, steady, might make an instant’s dark comfort, What walks among us now, unknown, unseen, that dealt, to disguise its coming, this fate to you fearful guardian? Or is it in its coming we should birth our fear? Is this disguise your choice; to garb your vigil in stone? Do you set your eyes upon the future still ancient warrior, in waiting, and watching, and waiting and watching. Set hard against the wind’s keening knives and its spattering sea birds, braced, tensed, hard glazed as cold as bone, On what distant line do you set your unlidded guard, the shorefall, horizon, the cloud skim, the stars? Oh ancient ones, you timeless soldiers tensed yet bid be still in your readiness; Hold ever fast, Each muscle rock and sinew steel; quivering each unseen beneath that stony skin aching, straining, for the call to battle, Let me shelter in your lea; let me lay my face against the cold reassurance of your ageless body at last, To shelter for a moment the guttering candle of my frail and fleeting existence in the wind shadow of your ageless sentries. For what foe would dare such enemy, such conflict, that against such an army the first spear would throw? Or dare your wrath my cold, heroic barbarians whose very body, cold unwavering rock, is of the unyielding earth itself. From time, through time, for time, still you wait, scanning the endless stellar horizons for the black sails of an unknown foe, Though yet - what invader would suffer your rage my selfless, stoic ancients, when your very gaze itself might hold tight the gates of hell? www.sullivanthepoet.com "Live free in the world and owe allegiance to no man" |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
THIS is VERY fine! I have often thought about doing an Easter Isle 'write' (in my geologic/geographic/travel series), but...could never quite 'make it work'; I am really glad this author did!! How about doing 'Stonehenge'??!! serious, sustained applause!! |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
secondhanddreampoet - Thank you sincerely for your encouraging words. I confess I hadn't cosidered stonehenge, but I will now... Thank you for kicking my muse in its all too idle backside... Mike  "Live free in the world and owe allegiance to no man" |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
you're welcome! If you can do Easter Island so well...you are assuredly the one to do 'fair justice' to Stonehenge! [I did a 'write' recently that was (in part) about nearby Agriglyphs (crop circles) but did not reference that grand-fine megalithic monument itself] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"Could those lichen clad granite lips but speak, that stone formed countenance call its features to contort"  What a great opening! Those imposing eyes must surely have frightened lesser warriors!In agreement here with Bruce, you could do Stonehenge justice. Consider your muse's butt kicked twice! |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
whoa...simply stunning write...gripping, almost theatrical...no, not almost, it is... amazing write...thank you |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
Thank you all for your plaudits - they are most welcome if not I suspect entirely deserved - I am encouraged by your remarks to write 'Stonehenge' and will post it here as soon as it is finished. Thank you all again - Mike "Live free in the world and owe allegiance to no man" |
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