Saqqara Poems - Poems about Saqqara

...I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof the......Read the rest...

...By a stone near Saqqara Sand blown from the Sahara Mixes with dust from Ankara Particularly near a pyramid it peculiarly disappears amid Two ascetics on a pilgrimage They observe the stra......Read the rest...

...My Lords an adjournment is Called for... All my retire; But holding foremost in your Thoughts, I beseech ye, Thee impudent countenance of This most ardent denier. Therefore heed me, I cauti......Read the rest...

...I wake up and get ready for work, At 3AM, my day starts early; A cup of ahwa* gives me a perk, At this time of day there’s still much to see; I’m off with my crew to Saqqara, So the di......Read the rest...

...I know I haven’t been there yet, It’s the one thing that I do regret; There’s no place I would rather go Such history from so long ago Someday I will make that trip, Maybe by plane, maybe by......Read the rest...

...I stared, and stared, and stared Following the light with my eyes To see beneath the dress The deep bosom of water suckling Babels on the ancient salt of primal seas. We build our ladders not fr......Read the rest...

...From Maidum staired beginning Walk me north to Cairo But keep your eyes on the pole star The moon meanders like a whore From year to year waxing bright From bed to bed in spans of light Her cyc......Read the rest...