General Poetry posted December 1, 2023


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A lament for hand-drawn antique maps.

Beasts and Gods

by Urbanscribe

In olden times the mythic beasts

and fearsome gods of distant lands

were real. On drawn maps they lived, feasts

penned by wild dreamers’ hands.

Came Google Earth and mystic easts

vanished, like whispering sands.


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