Where to begin and then end this saga of stone; <br />On Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments of stone? <br /> <br />With the mighty megaliths of Britain’s Stonehenge? <br />Start we will from the beginning when there was stone. <br /> <br />Centuries ago some built fires in caves of stone; <br />Drew wild animals and hunters on walls of stone. <br /> <br />On dark nights some read moving stars, measured the moon; <br />And for each month some chose a special precious stone. <br /> <br />Behold the pyramids and amphitheaters <br />Enduring the centuries - monuments of stone. <br /> <br />Nothing is more lasting than a flat slab of rock; <br />Why streams flow along many pebbled beds of stone. <br /> <br />As people reborn some live the life of the Son; <br />His stone from the tomb found rolled back on Easter morn. <br /> <br />Relieving us all of weariness in our bones, <br />Fateful death lays us low at the foot of a stone. <br /> <br />Content will I be with B. J. G. chiseled there <br />While forever reposing in that outer zone. <br /> <br />- January 3,2009 <br /> <br />Published by The Ghazal Page online, April 2009 http: //www.ghazalpage.net/<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saga-of-stone-ghazal/
