The Dance Of Shepenet (The Poet's Ecstasy):

It is to love, as no one has loved. Your poem is a religious experience without all the dogmas attached. You live with Rumi. ~Anna In NY when King Tut's treasures were exhibited, I was in a long line. There in the middle of a glass encased exhibit, was a small statute of an alabaster Shekmet. The light was shining through her, and I started weeping as if I had met my long lost sister daughter or myself. It was an amazing experience. It wasn't until 2005 that I started writing poetry to my Egyptian persona. http://www.dahoovsplace.com/Travels/Illinois/FieldMuseumKingTut/AlabasterCanopticJar.jpg p.s. I've been drunk ever since. "...when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." ~ Buddha

Dalton I found myself reading this again and again History folklore myths and legends This is inspiring my friend Always blue I was taken by Anna comment above of maybe past lives where we once were connected.

A beautiful poem John... Another favourite of mine...but then, they're all my favourites. Here's a little Egyptian stuff for you: Seven days to yesterday I have not seen the sister, And a sickness has invaded me My body has become heavy, Forgetful of my own self, If the chief of physicans come to me, my heart is not content with their remedies; the lector priests, no way out is in them- My sickness will not be probed. To say to me: "Here she is!" is what will revive me; Her name is what will lift me up; The going in and out of her messengers is what will revive my heart. More beneficial to me is the sister than any remedies; She is more to me than collected writings My health is her coming in from outside When I see her, then I am well. If she opens her eye, my body is young again If she speaks, then I am strong again When I embrace her, she drives evil away from me - But she has been gone forth from me for seven days! -Chester Beatty papyrus (Shepenet is also an Egyptian Beer-Beverage, which may have been brewed with poppy seeds.) "The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer." -Egyptian Inscription dating to 2200 BCE With my love, Raven A Poet in ecstasy is a beautiful thing to behold; and a better thing to be.