The interminable flight
to an exotic scene
the nocturnal light
of a wayfarer's heavenly dream.
Modern ramshackle Italy,
the ruins of Rome,
upon the cobalt-blue Mediterranean Sea,
to Caesar's home.
Down the long Nile
into ageless unkept Egypt,
to a towering and masterly cut stone-pile
where a pharaoh slept in a crypt.
Peregrinate to China,
scale the Great Wall,
marvel wonder of Asia,
with its enormous stone mall.
Sail to the Mayan city
of Tikal, in northern Guatemala's hills
with its beautiful courts and plazas of smithy,
where life now stands still.
The interminable flight
to an exotic scene
the nocturnal light
of a wayfarer's heavenly dream.
- John Hardesty
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