Great Wall Time Divides Past Present Poem by Terence George Craddock

exquisite expansive
a scope of time effort
in landscape ancient
an insightful brilliance
emanates in purpose
walls withstand test
centuries weather past
take a measure of soil

sand earth wood bricks
stones multiply parts
each countless times
vary required proportions
construction materials
in construction times

stretching locations
into The Great Wall
of China defensive
early cultural insight
work spans time scales
time dragon leaps
rugged mountains
weathered ranges

winter fierce storm ice
sun baking rock heat
blasting sandstorms
waterless droughts
dragon indifferent
shakes off rest sleeps

time sleeps warriors
wind leaves spent
no longer guards
armoured behind
walls arrow ports
nomadic invaders
sand time swallowed
what is a wall when wall

takes on life symbolic its
own snakes across mountains
Jurassic landscape ranges
an earth dragon
road through time
remnant sections

in pounded earth mud
turning back into dust
in time ruination scale
nature modern ancient
intermixing resurges
time growth recycles
nature plant peach trees
bees hum honey journey

grass creeping
in psychological
darkness past

to invading
imagination present
an exceptionally

creative poem
nature sings
time changes


Terence George Craddock (Shadows Of Light)
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