#APoemADay – Day 27 – Sunken Cities

#APoemADay – Day 27 – Sunken Cities

Beneath the water

Cities lay sleeping

For silty centuries

Upon the salty seabed

Drowned deities

Sunk in sycamore

Mysteries encased in

Abandoned barges

Sphinxes curl their tails

Keeping a watery gaze

At the gateways to

Toppled temples

Hippo headed goddesses

And giant bulls preside

Over ocean empty

Stony still streets

Here under the sea

Hieroglyphs swim

With Greek alphabets

Across tablets of stone

Fluid cultural metamorphoses

Generals become pharaohs

Drowned lovers turn gods

And sister queens goddesses

In a titanic outpouring

Of shared inspiration and wisdom

The dreams of two continents

Slipped beneath the waves

Their sleep uninterrupted

Until this modern awakening

Unblinking eyes of seabathed stoneNow gaze upon humanity again