Ptolemy Poems

IDA NADI

...We wash our dead, our dead!
We make paper bags, alembics, sandpaper and words from their bones
The abstract reality of the walls - the chandelier of the sky - the sound reflected in the water
We m...

Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution

...Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march...

A PROMISE TO M

...
I was crafted for you long ago of bronze
Carried by Egyptians like fine silk
I was once the ankh pressed against your pain
We crossed the Nile while pharaohs slept in lotus
dreams
The desert w...

Concentric Circles

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Lift your celestial gaze to be amazed in Wonder
As has Ptolemy, then Copernicus and Kepler after
Who are the capricious Gods who dance in wander
To revere Mercury? Venus? Mars? Saturn? Jupiter? ...

God's Air

...Imagine that someone wants to argue against the existence of air
All the while breathing in air
The Catholics have the Mitered Buffoon
They say Protestants have the “Paper Pope” too
Immanuel Kant...

A Cautionary Tale

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Great is the battle, small the victory
  when all that is won is lost to mankind -
in this war of worlds its great casualty 
  is the fallen consciousness in our mind.
From spear tip and ar...

Hour of Power

...HOUR OF POWER

If I remember rightly, someone once said
Enough of all this farce, democracy is dead
So don’t let any of it mess with your head

In some democracies, a President is elected
But ...

Cleopatras Palace a True Narrative

...Alexandria, Egypt is well known for being the city where Cleopatra once ruled her people and both she and her famous lover, Mark Anthony met their final, tragic fates.  It is where the "Pharos of Ale...

Ingenuity 4-19-21

...To Babylonians, Ptolemy (and me),
The night sky was a glittering sea.
They called them all stars 
But (including Mars)
These “observers” were startled to see…

That charting their heavenly cour...

Cleopatra

...Cleopatra ruler
Captivating beauty
Collected four husband
Caesar was her lover
Claimed Caesarion son
Crucial Roman nation
Chose Mark Antony last


10/21/2020





Cleopatra VII Philopa...

Loving Yemen

...The Greek philosopher Ptolemy described Yemen as “happy Arabia”.
Understanding her beauty during ancient days.
Some have changed this to “Fortunate Arabia”.
Both names enlighten her in positive wa...

A Brief Meditation on Aristotle's First Cause

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Like seraphim whose wings unfold,
your majesty goes not untold!
As the light of your brilliant face
moves in me all of time and space;

as planets orbit heaven's Sun
and encircle it one b...

Celestial Cloud Complex

...Our parent galaxy Milky Way
has a nebula giving birth
to stars neath ‘baby blanket’ array
that’s one of the closest to Earth

of astral-forming regions around—
Rho Ophiuchi Complex Cloud,
name...

Odyssey From Africa 16b

...16b Stargazing 

Here they filed into a hallway
Into almost total darkness
Just a pair of flick’ring candles
Led them to an inner circle
 
At its center was a platform 
Where a single chair w...

Odyssey From Africa - Stargazing 1

...King Ptolemy the Second (cont.)

Sleek of line for speedy sailing 
It was rugged in construction 
Several layers of well cured timber
Lined the hull and bridge and gunwales 
 
There were four ...

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