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Indeed you must. Petra is an incredible place that seems to inspire poetic thoughts in every visitor, including your humble correspondent: https://www.flickr.
by mikhailfranco 6y ago
Indeed you must.
Petra is an incredible place that seems to inspire poetic thoughts in every visitor, including your humble correspondent:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikhailfranco/8579438475 https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikhailfranco/8579438475
It is a sculpture not a building.
A fanciful classical facade
carved around a small beshadowed room.
It is hard evidence of insanity.
Proof that sculptors can only take away
but add so much with their subtractions.
It is a glorious folly
in a hidden valley
beyond a lost city.
The grandeur and futility
of the human spirit
has been revealed within the stone.
And down the endless millennia
each wondrous visitor
will cast a dismayed gaze
at the madness and beauty
of ancient days.