Caravan

Middle east caravan travel

Caravan

 

From the noisy souk of Constantinopolis

There, under the blue dome of Hagia Sofia

We set caravan to travel to the Far East

A hundred men, goats and mehara

Gone for trade, toward legendary Baghdad

Hot desert dust burning our eyes

Fiery sunlight drying our skin

From dirty town to oasis water holes

With our companions of Muhamad's Faith

Under the tents of some Bedouin Sheik,

We ate and slept on dyed wool of Turkish rugs

So many ghostly ruins of fabulous cities

Like Nabatean Petra, now silent we passed by

In Damascus by the great sea between the lands

We traded, with ship travelling merchants

Thru Lebanon across the Jordan to Palestine

Under the antique walls of Yerushaláyim

To the desert, we returned to the burning sands

To the salty waters of land locked Dead Sea

There I witness, the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah

Lot's wife turned to stone on Yahweh's orders

With parched throats we reached the Euphrates

We saw fallen Babylon sun dried bricks

I roamed the ruins of the once tall Babel ziggurat

Ending journey to Haround Al Rachid's city

Mesopotamian Baghdad, of Thousand and One Nights realm

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Reviews

[ANTO]

Wow ! So vivid and exotic Richard. I loved this. Such a journey.
The desecration of similar sites by IS must be a dagger in your heart my friend.

[Richard Guimond]

Cain's black Crows by Richard Guimond ©2015

Barely out of the forbidden Garden of Eden
A new generation had learned to toil the earth
The sons of Abel had sown seeds in the ground
Civilisation rise all over the Fertile Crescent
But jealous of his learned brother was Cain
Eldest brother sets in the hunter's ways
The nomadic sons of Cain's swarmed like crows
Armed with spears and swords over the fields
Pillaging the labor of sickle bearing villagers
The blackbird of Anarchy stormed from above
Having been fed by regurgitate lied from their elders
The Crow of Ignorance rejected any new learning's
They followed the steps of the laborers, to destroy
Every works of Reasons of Mother Earth followers
From between twins rivers to the banks of a single one
Nomadic desert tribes followed Cain's murderous ways
All over Mesopotamia to the rich banks of the Niles
Still today the black birds fed by their elder's lies
Seek the destruction of any signs of civilized Reason
The Crow of ISIS, the listeners the One Single Book
Pour their hated over the readers of many sources
They seek the destruction blasphemous images
Erasing the illustrated books of knowledge and history
Far beyond the limits of Babylon and Khemet, they aim at
Worldwide domination, submission to their dark ignorance
Chaos and anarchy blind fate over of Reason and Logos
City dweller beware of Cain's blackbird swarms
Forming in the desert, preparing to obscure your sky

[ANTO]

Wow (again) - this gave me shivers -
the more things change...

thank you very much for sharing this extra treat Richard. I appreciate it.