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| Stonehenge. Image found on Wikimedia Commons. |
As I said yesterday, I'm participating, or trying to participate in Mary Lee's "Our Wonderful World" Poetry Celebration. Mary Lee has selected a list of thirty wonders of the ancient and modern world, and will be posting a new poem every single day. You can read her poems at Year of Reading or at her new blog Poetrepository. I'm going to try to join her as often as I can.
Today's wonder is Stonehenge. What I've done the last couple of days is google the wonder, and simply read until I found something that interested me. Yesterday, I was fascinated by the idea that the Egyptians built the pyramids to encourage favor between the gods and their dead pharoah. Today, I read an interesting article, "Five Strange Theories About Stonehenge" on LiveScience. That inspired this "poem."
Today's wonder is Stonehenge. What I've done the last couple of days is google the wonder, and simply read until I found something that interested me. Yesterday, I was fascinated by the idea that the Egyptians built the pyramids to encourage favor between the gods and their dead pharoah. Today, I read an interesting article, "Five Strange Theories About Stonehenge" on LiveScience. That inspired this "poem."
"Stonehenge. Why?"
Stonehenge.
Why?
Were
you simply
a
cemetery?
A
place where townspeople
bearing
incense
or
mace heads
might commemorate
the
lives
of
their society’s
religious,
political
or
military
elite?
Stonehenge.
Why?
Were
you a place for healing?
Did
the lame, maimed
sick,
dying, hopeless
make
pilgrimages
to
chip away at
your
great blue stones
and
somehow
eke
out
wholeness
and
protection?
Stonehenge.
Why?
Were
you some kind of
celestial observatory?
a
place where worshippers
slaughtered
pigs
in
celebration of
summer
or
winter
solstice?
Stonehenge.
Why?
Were
you an
Neolithic concert hall?
Did
pipers
travel
to this
earthen Carnegie Hall
to
play tunes
they
could hear
in
no other
human
cathedral?
Stonehenge.
Why?
Were
you just
an
ancient
teamwork
exercise
a
place
where
people
unified
to
create something
much
greater
than
themselves?
Stonehenge.
Why?
©
Carol Wilcox, 2014
http://www.livescience.com/27832-strange-theories-about-stonehenge.html
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