Greetings & salutations, my friends!
I really do not want to comment too much on this week’s poem other than it started around the idea of lapis lazuli and its spiritual influence in ancient Egyptian mythos.
In fact, I read somewhere that Cleopatra notedly wore powdered lapis lazuli for her eyeshadow due to its limitless power.
I think you will find this poem can be read a few different ways… several of which have nothing to do with the Egyptian allusions… and I am very eager to hear your varied interpretations.
Please share your thoughts & feelings in the Comments Section below.
-PS Conway ☘ ☘ ☘
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in moonlight
the Book of the Dead
recalls you in moonlight
silver bones
flesh of gold
hair like lapis lazuli
high upon the desert sands
with starshine your sacred scrim
the whimsy of the night wind
tugging gently on your raiment
its sequined scarab caress
lost in a shadowed codex
as with memory, treasure rusts
and i am left … longing