POEM #19- Chitchen Itza

Chichén Itzá, by xtinabuena, Wikimedia Commons

As you know if you read my blog regularly, you know I've been participating in Mary Lee Hahn's "Our Wonderful World" Poetry Challenge. Each day, we travel to a different Wonder to write poetry; so far we have been to the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Golden Gate Bridge, the CN Tower, the Itaipu Dam, the Delta Works in the Netherlands and lots more. Mary Lee and Kevin Hodgson and I have written every single day. Several other folks, Cathy Mere and Carol Varselona, have traveled with us some days.

Today we are journeying to Chichén Itzá, on the Yucatan Peninsula. I've been struck, as I have researched a lot of these places- pyramids, temples, mosques, etc.- by humans' search to know/understand/connect with their creator. Sometimes I've been struck by the beauty of their efforts. Other times, I've been saddened by the depravity or destruction involved. Today,  I was struck by both. I started with one poem, then felt like it was going in two entirely two different directions, so I broke it into two separate poems. I'm including them both.

"A Question"

Did Creator God’s

eyes twinkle

as He watched

small humans

chart movement of

His great fireball

across earth dome

measuring three hundred sixty-five

two or three or ten times

discovering precision

of Patterns

hand-created

millions of years

before?

© Carol Wilcox, 2014

Chichén Itzá”

Great Holiness

Humans seeking

to understand

Creator God

chart movement of

great fireball across earth dome

then construct temple

 to honor Sacred Precision

Great God smiles

Great Depravity

Humans seeking

to please Chaak,

giver of Rain,

hurl bejeweled beauties

into sinkhole wells

human sacrifice

Great God weeps

© Carol Wilcox, 2014