Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

Left here standing
On this open landing
A church once filled with worshippers
Now heard only
A few lonesome whispers

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

“Enter at your own peril”
The sign was read by Meryl
“Well, we have to get to the next level,
If we want the beat the rebels!”

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

The ruins of Acropolis
A place for fun, a place of knowledge
Decipher if you will
The old texts written with skill
Into to the old stones
Which no one owns

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

Oh my, oh dear,
Is this a place I truly fear?
Does anyone my cries hear?
Please, get me outta here!

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

Ladies in waiting
May be a sentence under stating
A few millennia
They have stood in catatonia

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

When the pipes are a-smoking
Do not go around poking
There may be something cooking
In the ovens no one is looking

Dare adventure inside
But be careful of what you find
It may or may not be kind
Something preserved in time

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

History written into these forgotten stones
They used to be for many simple homes
Now what remains, may just be, some forgotten bones

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

Remnants of a temple
Now available,
For long term rental

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

The castle of brave knights
Who attended many a fights
Spent drinking many a nights
Now turned off are their lights
And remaining a stony sight

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta

Written in Stone

One pillar
Two pillar
Three pillar
Even the mighty caterpillar
Could them do no ill-ar