Cleopatra’s Needle 9.5.23
Cleopatra’s Needle
It stands on the Embankment
above the flowing waters of the Thames,
a reminder of time’s ever flowing stream.
Three thousand five hundred years ago
it’s granite was quarried from Aswan
by the waters of the Nile.
Erected by Pharoah at Heliopolis,
moved to homage Caesar at Alexandria
Cleopatra’s Needle then bit the dust!
Preserved by sand it rose again
through British enterprise and carried by sea
came to preside over the Thames.
Cleopatra’s Needle points heavenwards
lifting the soul as it has for millennia
inviting an eternal perspective.
John Twisleton 9 May 2033
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