New Poetry Contest: I Wonder - Jiaqi H. - 09/22/20

Contest: Winners

New Poetry Contest: I Wonder

Submitted by: Jiaqi H., age 11, Ann Arbor, MI

The Mystery of Stonehenge

What inked the grooves written in the ground?
What erected those gray boulders
That tower over the swaying grass
And paint shadows on the fields?
What hoisted the slabs of heather gray
Onto the backs of its ashen kin?

Did the hands of ancient gods
Or the blood and sweat of slaves and servants
Raise these wonders of stone?
Or was it magic,
A force of nature beyond reckon and thought,
Or machines of wood and steel?

What etched those scars into the pastures beyond?
What marred these meadows that stretch out for miles?

Did the heels of boots and the points of swords
Scratch and claw these shallow carvings
That spiral ever so gracefully from grounds of grass and flowers?
Or are these the trails of winds and snow falling from stormy skies
Or of feather waters drifting over earth?

What built this solemn council of stones
That goes by the alias “Stonehenge,”
A magic both foreboding and a temptation,
A curiosity and an enigma.
The mystery of the Earth and the beauty of creation.


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