Hear me,
I am the Voice of the Wanderers
survivors are we
we travel the land
where the mighty once stood
infinitely powerful
but not very wise
they pissed in their nests
and befouled their own drink
think now you my people
as I tell you the tale
of this abandoned house
and this abandoned town
and all of the glories
and all of the destruction
of those who begat us
many eons ago.
Abandoned … this house and all that is hidden within.
G.s.k. ‘16
The photo is the prompt for Poem Tryouts: More Abandoning which I found on “Jane Dougherty Writes“
which inspired the story below .. this poem is a sort of introduction to the story.
The Voice – Science Fiction – January 28, 2016
Bastet and Sekhmet's Library 
Look on my works, ye mighty…
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🙂 And so I shall, now that I’ve written my own (I’m always afraid of unconsciously copying).
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I am fascinated by the speaker’s tone. I like the way this plays. It does echo Ozymandias, but that’s all. No copying to worry about.
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I agree!
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Thank you both Sue and Margo Roby – I’m going to go look up Ozymandias … believe it or not, I’m in complete ignorance as to who/what you are referring to, and I find that very interesting indeed!
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Ah, go find your traveller from an antique land….
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As soon as I found Shelly’s Poem I slapped myself on the head … I’d completely forgotten the poem! I presented a reading on ancient Egypt for my conversation class last year and we talked about the competition that was held on the occasion of the discovery of the piece of statue of Ramses II (and read the poems too).
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Ho hum, way it goes sometimes!
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So true … very embarrassing when it does
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Oh, I’m always forgetting stuff….
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Thanks … 🙂
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😊
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Both versions are great, but I like this version better. Yes, it has an Ozymandias feel but that’s a very good thing 🙂
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I I were to build on the two, this would have been the introduction to the story … Happy you liked the poem .. it wrote itself, after I wrote the story 😉
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