We Drink Because We Are Poets Thurday Prompt # 5 has set and we have a new goal!
Prompt: What if you were a god for a day? What would you do? What would the world be like? Would you be a good god or an evil god? I’m thinking along the lines of the classical pantheons (like from Greece and Rome), but you can take this any way you’d like. If you’d like to go the Bruce or Evan Almighty way, by all means, it’s your universe!
You can write your poem in any form that you choose! If any of you would like to write an epic like the Illiad, that would be waaaaaay awesome!
People, it’s your party. Have fun! 
Look in this mirror, how do you see yourself?
Bastet Asks
I am great Bastet
the Goddess of cats
born from the rib
of Sekhmet the Goddess of War!
As I’d been forgotten
I thought
I’d
become human
for in this
wonderous age
the deities are you!
I’ve followed your
progress
over the ages
and seen how you’ve tamed
the Earth and the Air
I’ve seen your
great progress from
frightened young
babies
to warriors who could turn
this planet to dust!
I’ve watched as whole
species
have ceased to exist
I’ve watched as the forests you’ve changed into cities
I’ve watched as you’ve played
god
transforming my noble minions
into silly playthings
to be shown in fairs.
I’ve seen your
great growth
7 billion or so
and wonder where
the rest of us might go!
You fly into space
exploring the planets
you dive into the sea
at impossible depths!
You speak across
cyberspace
in less than an instant
creating ideas
no god ever could.
No burning bushes
for you
a keyboard you use
a modem
a webcam
and all is concluded!
So
answer my question
for deities you
are
what sort of world
have you created
are you good gods
or evil
or just unconscious of your great power?
Other participants:
http://5degreesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/thursday-poetry-prompt-5-displaced-divinity/
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Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
All three! All three! Bastet, this is awesome! And the questions are pertinent. This is going to invoke a lot of thought.
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Meow said Bastet…glad you liked it! I think that thought it might provoke, but probably not many who will like it… 😉 some thoughts are perhaps not very popular you know.
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“…warriors who could turn this planet to dust!”
P.S.:
let me add, Bastet: the problem is not the “clash of civilizations” [Samuel Huntington] – more the “clash of religions” [frizztext] maybe a “clash of the different centuries”, meeting each other [Ernst Bloch, “Ungleichzeitigkeit”]
thank you for your comment there!
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I think it’s just the clash of securities…some feel secure with tradition some secure in science…the real question is why should one man’s security be a point of contention, unless of course they don’t feel very secure in their security…hmmm….bit of a merry-go-round that last sentence, wasn’t it? Which means I agree with Ernst Bloch.
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