Monday, 31 October 2022

#1029 - gifts for the journey




31.x.22

1029

3.303

gifts for the journey

tomb steele for a seated child with grapes and bird


a full  cup 

some beaten gold to barter

a dog at beck

fish fill the sea


and we are going across!


cloak over tunic

styles of the time 


the Egyptians say it’s

Ka and Ba 

must be able to return 


who knows?

they may be right


one must always be ready

practical problems


what to pack?

how much can you carry?

you have to be ready for anything 

and nobody’s ever known 

quite what that means


but a bottle of something anyway 

some coin for the crossing 


nobody wants to be gone

but if and when 

best well dressed 

you never know whom you’ll meet 


fast talking 

heroic scenes!


these are the pictures 

of the dead 

as they remain to us 


in all the years we find ourselves 

and they must find us gone 


through every kind of weather

stone keeps us looking best 









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