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18. Machu Picchu
HOW?
No wheel for rolling,
or draft horse for pulling,
and hills too steep,
with trees thick and deep.
So how to move countless
stone blocks up a mountain?
A hundred-man force
up an inclined plane course.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2014
After a week that featured wonders of the modern world chosen by The American Society of Civil Engineers -- the Empire State Building (my favorite of my poems this week), the Golden Gate Bridge, the Itaipu Dam, the Delta Works, and the Panama Canal (I cheated and wrote a non-wonder poem that day) -- it's been nice to return to some ancient wonders: Petra yesterday and Machu Picchu today.
And what fun to learn about unknown or little-known places around the world, and to marvel, day after day, at the ingenuity of the human race!
Kevin wrote a pensive ransom note poem for today. It's at his blog,Kevin's Meandering Mind.
Carol Wilcox's poem for today focuses on a tiny detail to get at the big picture. It's simply masterful.
Carol Varselona at BeyondLiteracyLink wrote a poem for the Panama Canal.
Carol Wilcox's poem for Petra is at Carol's Corner. I immediately thought of the cliff-dwellers of the American Southwest when I looked through the pictures of Petra!
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