Thursday 13 March 2014

OF GLOBES AND MAPS:


Winding paths, roads, lanes, rivers, & seas,

Forests & old woods, traced through trees,

Deserts, ice-caps, lagoons & the oceans wild,

“And where is Atlantis?” asks the excited child.

 

Adventurers, explorers & ancient earlier man,

Traipsed, walked, rode, sailed & even far swam,

Looking for rumoured lands & far away worlds,

Searching for gold, diamonds & undersea pearls.

 

Mapped & scribed, lines painted & in old ink traced,

Upon parchment & velum, pathways so well laced,

Stretched upon tight old skins & rolled in old scrolls,

Maps & globes in sepia & when lost, rolls & unfolds.

 

Wayfarers, seafarers, missionaries of long gone & past,

Gold diggers & pirates, all travelling, slow, far or fast,

Upon pathways & roads, man-made & sorely uprooted,

Where quiet nature once slept, undisturbed & un-looted.

 

 

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