Petra Poems - Poems about Petra

There are doors but you can’t knock upon them And if they were opened There is nothing to see if they did Just a hollowed out space Large enough for the width of a door And no more Some...Read the rest...

An amazonian appears over cliff ledge Looking down at her butterfly allies To defend her they promise with a dying pledge In the fields beyond her stone enemies arise She leaps into the fray, grinding rock into clay, The butterflies...Read the rest...

A stairway of tinted boulders reveals The fable of old gods marking a past, Etched on tall red-stones divinely claimed… And as I ascend to touch a warm glow, My feet quiver among hallowed mounds Of blazing rocks, of sacred...Read the rest...

You are a Venus of beauty multiplying at night, As your City Lights adorably carpet each mountain, The moon smiles above you with its gleam so bright; A breathtaking view which a repertoire cannot even contain In admiration of...Read the rest...

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