The Great Watchers
Think of those great watchers of the sky,
the shepherds, the magi, how they looked
for a thousand years and saw there was order,
who learned not only Light would return,
but the moment she’d start her journey.
No writing then. The see-ers gave
what they knew to the song-makers —
the dreamy sons, the daughters who hummed
as they spun, the priestly keepers of story —
and the clever-handed heard, nodded
and turned poems into New Grange,
Stonehenge, The Great Temple of Karnak.
by Nils Peterson
from Loving Darkness a Little
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