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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

POEM #2- Wonders of the World- Stonehenge

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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."
"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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