What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Monday, August 15, 2011

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Histories: God King

It was the Nile that obeyed the Pharaoh.
He was the god that made the river flood.
Those floods watered the desert & that narrow
strip of green & fertile cropland was
what served as their civilization’s spine.
The Pharaoh then provided everything
even life to his people. The shrines
put up to pay homage to the king
were erected to adorn the public spaces
so that thousands of years later we can gaze
at the icons of those royal faces.
But upon death their splendid royal graves
were hidden away—buried secretly—
lest mortals find & rob their deity.
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