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