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Papyrus Poetry
L.L. here, with a prompt for Random Acts of Poetry.
Take us to an ancient place. Egypt, China, India, Rome, Greece. Research a little if you really want to transport your readers. For instance, at a recent Twitter Poetry Party, we went to Egypt, where we saw carnelian, lotus, Nefertiti, alabaster, canopic jars.
It might help you to write from the perspective of a particular object or historical person. Or not. Play around, like we did...
Excerpt of Once in Egypt, from the last poetry partry. (I believe this excerpt comes from a contribution by @mmerubies.)
My father fell in love with Nefertiti
when he was but a child, white
boy in a country classroom, gazing
at his fantasy, Nefertiti, his first vision
of royal beauty. He never fell out of
love; he never fell out of worship.
Forty years or more past his first
sighting of her, she still rested
above his fireplace, until the new
wife moved her.
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Grasses photo by Kelly Langner Sauer. Used with permission. Post by L.L. Barkat.
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