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A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II

...A Place Not Meant To Be
           
PART: II            (699 of 1487 words)

#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...

Any Old Iron

...He’s a modern Harold Steptoe
With his reclamation machine 
Very few planets on the Galaxy
On which he’s not already been.
He’s got every known Wormhole
Marked on his Galaxy Survey Map
And he pr...

A Place Not Meant To Be: 11

...#11: Space Race Revised

X-X Bethlehem, then Jerusalem, He'll lay,
slides from angel wings through hourglass timeless
inquiry, that constant without delay
spatial values in place of ...

Angkor Wat

...Angkor Wat
infamous temple complex in Cambodia
largest religious structure known on earth
spreads two hundred and forty-eight square miles
there are seventy-two temples inside this complex

Thi...

Ingenio's Lair

...What genius can thus inspire,
the mind will never know

It takes more than a thought conceived,
to go where visions go

Angkor Wat or Taj Mahal, 
we only stand in awe

And wish to go from wh...

You

...I’ve watched the sun rise in Angkor Wat
The beauty in Santorini will not be forgot 
Mount Bromo was a sight worthy to behold 
Cape Town did shine so bright and so bold

I witnessed the sun as it...

Bucket Lists

...List one: climb up to Machu Picchu,
ride the Orient Express,
see the Terracotta Warriors,
find a monster in Loch Ness,
brave the winds of Patagonia,
hike along an Everest ridge,
visit Paul Gaug...

Temples of Angkor Wat

...sari of morn floats

draping temples with orchids,

as Angkor Wat blows its mist

to flame coned incense;

and in the still of homage

pilgrims wander with their gods.


Angkor ...

Chariots of Gods

...Angkor temples 
reveal old paths 
of god borne ‘raths’ 
came from lands far 

gods, goddesses 
guard the altar
keep demons far 
people at peace 


'raths'- chariots in Hindi language

Mo...

Song

...Led down from the tower
Head high and hands bound
Blindfold declined against the wall
Black square pinned to his heart
His eyes afire and shining
And he sang...

He sang of Caruso, Townes Van ...

Holy Land, Your Place, Your Flesh -

...Would you crusade to remote regions
in search of that timeless tomb, the one made of seasalt & sandstone,
to towns tempered by the terror of war, windswept with worry,

Do prayer calls of the Jihadis...

Few Sensitive Other Callous To a Symbolic Gesture Earth Hour

...For “EARTH HOUR” we pledged  without words rearranging,
Let us try and attempt to stop things from changing
Am doing my bit as promised to myself and me,
wrote a poem on “earth hour”, published it...

Cambodian Cote D'Azur

...“Cambodia is
Cambodia but not really
Cambodia.”
That’s what some say
As the years roll on
Forty years or so since Pol Pot and his pals posted
‘Year 0”, 
Sent the whole thing to the wash,
 And...

Where the Temple Is

...Not coldly proud, in Saint Paul's cathedral,
     Nor silently strong in the Great Mosque of Mecca
     Nor sorrow-filled at the Wailing Wall
     Nor winding with the vines through Angkor Wat
  ...

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