A Poem For Today - Ozymandias

[KEN DICKINSON]



Ozymandias of Egypt
 
I met a traveller from an antique land  
Who said...

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone  
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,  
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown  
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command       
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read  
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,  
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed."

 
And on the pedestal these words appear...

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings  
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

 
Nothing beside remains

Round the decay  

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,  
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- P. B. Shelley

[Rafael Edwards]

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[Chris Wells]

Stunning - and thanks for the picture Rafa!

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[Kurt Heyl]

Thank you both Ken and Rafa

Hugs

Kurt