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As Pharoah thought
Deep thoughts on Thoth,
He became serious
And thought of Osiris.

What of Seth?
What do Anubis and Horus sayeth?
Of Amun and Mut,
And panoplied Nut?

It may take me forever
Mused the Pharoah -
To invent the Alphabet
To honour me and the rest.

So he hit upon a plan
From the carved likeness of man
In relief on a cliff.
Hey, hello - was born the Hieroglyph!

So excited was the Pharaoh
That row upon row
Of ideograms were made
For then and beyond- never to fade.

Way back in Antiquity
Was the hieroglyph's nativity,
From civilization's start
Great works of art.

After five millennia or more
At a light and sound show
The Hieroglyphs stand out
In splendor and shout:

Look on and wonder
On our days of thunder;
When great kings ruled the land
Where you wonder and stand.

Great things we'd  tell you
If only you knew
To read papyrus and stone
Like your own Champollion!

Be that as it may
Setting aside our dismay
We venture to now and here
And our version of the ancient fear -

Athazagoraphobic
Is a form of being sick
Where you fear you'll be forgotten
As your memory gets rotten.

To overcome this fear
Modern science was here.
Came our Dennis Gabor
With the fruit of his labor.

- Hologram-
Now you can see light effects
Both form and the texts
With science of the day
Having had it's great say.

But think all over again-
Isn't it plain
Holograms in chips
Are but chipped hieroglyphs?

That some day in future
A post-apocalyptic preacher
Would try to decipher
The hologrammatic cipher?

A Rosetta Stone of old
A better story told
Than this obsolescent chip
Of a "modern"  Athazagoraphobic.

Let me wind up this ditty
Of trying to be witty
Holograms and Hieroglyphs
Are both alliterative scripts!

~11 April 2016~

Contest Judged : 29 May 2016

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