DIVINER
Source diminished to mere trickle
Hushed up gurgles imitating laughter
Thwarted energy silence stirring anima
Restive soul tickling innermost depths
Winding idly downstream from wherever
Meandering aimlessly flow off course
Waylaid river of no return
Twisted fate around next bend
Soil that once absorbed rainfall
To replenish wasteland stripped away
No taproots stemming against disgruntled
Stream of consciousness virgin spring
Watershed ridges drained of surfeit
Crinkly edges retching dry heaves
Insistent thirsty desire craving quencher
Glossy lips speaking in tongues
Makeshift forked divining rods downcast
Portending to regorge stillborn undercurrent
Snake oil peddling quintessential elixir
Medicated lozenge soothing parched throat
Frothy whirlpool saliva gushed undeterred
Barren earth standing its ground
Grimy sediment rock crystals exposed
Open jaw one-way journey engulfed
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GIZA PYRAMIDS
Sticks and stones piled up
Steely flint sparks dry kindling
Twigs neatly stacked lean-to supports
Billowy smoke ascending curlicue puffs
Quadrilateral mass steep masonry slope
Giant steps converge at apex
Corners facing four winds diverted
Shadows bisecting light-years away shafts
Osiris son of earth god
Geb spouse sky goddess Nut
Horus posthumously begotten regal offspring
Crook signifying divine underworld authority
Guarded by enigmatic foreboding Sphinx
Considered to be Horus’ aspect
Harmonious proportions almost smiling face
Re choking parched throat sunstroke
Greedy Ka ravenous thirst unquenched
Chapped lips tingly clogged nostrils
Shades of ochre burnt umber
Exhaling gritty lapis lazuli specks
So tightly cut impossible to
Pass a hair between them
Clay mortar thin as papyrus
Brightly embellished relief pious hieroglyphs
Nobles buried in rectangular mastabas
Embalmed mummy anima gauze bound
Eerie omens invective curses dispelled
Exquisite tombs tunnel vision skullduggery
Metaphysical maxims derived from nature
Sublime oracular truths deeply ingrained
Prosaic obsessions mystical otherworldly invocations
Transcending ring of fire horizons
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