The bust of Queen Nefertiti in the Neues Museum of Berlin
The dabble of your power
have reached nowadays…
in thrill I lift my chin,
half-closed eyes
to see the sun disk
shining throughout the hall
above the heads of others…
The center piece -
with shallow breath
I read: ‘the beautiful comes…’ -
Illusive woman,
you could easily manifest
as multidimensional being…
I see you wearing false beard,
a pharaoh’s robe and kilt
wrapped around the body-
is this the reason
why you’ve disappeared…
Mummy hunters scour in vane
the dark tombs, excavating ruins;
regal throne stained by the trophies,-
the history keeps digging for truth.
Unfolding the future
skills - blast - revelation
we can’t forswear
that won’t see
victorious tall crown
at the head of
our saviors…
by Brenda Warren
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It is hard enough discovering the truth today, let alone 33 centuries later. For all her fascination she was just another ruler (or ruler's wife) wielding power. Meanwhile my forebears were shoveling sand! She certainly was beautiful though.
ReplyDeleteFor me it's important that she was independent in her views and maybe too much for her time, but powerful and wise female leader in her young age. ~ Thanks!
DeleteThe artists are behind what was and is now able to be imagined, defining, maybe embellishing, to pass on their creativity and a format to pass it forward.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed…
I love your point, Anthony! Maybe you right...~ Thanks.
DeleteYou could pull the words from within the image and then apply your formidable imagination ...is that where these words emanate from ??
ReplyDeleteWhen we widen the perspective, it's easier to prepare for what's around the next corner....Should we shrink ourselves? for what? ~ Thanks, K.
DeleteThe beautiful comes...i love that line...and i think she will...and has..right here in your words
ReplyDeleteThis is what the name 'Nefertiti' means..~ Thanks :)x
DeleteKeep on digging indeed, but doubt we will ever really know, unless time travel is invented haha
ReplyDeleteWho knows what miracles ahead...~ Thanks, love time travel much!
Deletefascinating story... i haven't seen her in the museum in berlin but would love to... always mesmerized by the stories the sculptures have to tell
ReplyDeleteI always amazed how the person's life gets overgrown with stories after death, esp. the famous ones...~ Thanks, Claudia! x
Deleteis the truth in our history...or is that just what has been written by the ones that control the flow of information...i agree in that truth is hard to find no...much less then....
ReplyDeleteA masterpiece, eloquently describing just her way, as well as throughout the world we wonder, beautifully weaved with your word list!
ReplyDeleteOh, what we can dream up from a few artifacts. Is it history or fantasy?
ReplyDeleteYou worded this beautifully.
Brilliant - I really like this!
ReplyDeleteI just read they may have found her tomb.....
ReplyDeleteShe seems to have fallen from power after 12 years co-rule but she had 6 daughters and no male heir when Arkhenaten died who fathered Tutenkamen by his second wife.
ReplyDeleteLoved the poem . . . . :) ~ Eddie