Short Ptolemy Poems

star gaze
          a winged white horse
      flies across the northern sky
   lovers worldwide look in wonder
            just as Ptolemy did

Jack Horne for Nette’s Pen a Pensee contest,  1st July...

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High in the sky, Beehive Cluster.
Nebulous mass, to quote Ptolemy
shines within the breast of Cancer.
An astronomer's anomaly -
"twinkle, twinkle little star"
what genius your light inspires.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster

written 27 April 2016...

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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 was once our home and Cleopatra, our
Queen

While the queen courted Caesar and General
Ptolemy ruled
We clung to the fevered silver of the stars
But now is today and all is forgotten of us
A promise to M.
Written in sand 






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