Martin Bidney - The Be-Loving Imaginer Episode 53 - Travel Wordsongs in Egypt, Greece, Turkey

The Be-Loving Imaginer

Synopsis Episode #53 Egypt, Greece, Turkey Three Historical Legacy Tours At various times I’ve taken “antiquarian” tours of the countries named above, one tour per country, each of our journeys lasting two weeks. The sponsoring firm, “Travel with the Experts,” always offered both American and native-land lecturers on each nation’s history and culture. I wrote a poem a day: 3 x 2 weeks = 6 weeks = 42 days = 42 poems, all written in Greco-Roman poetic meters (stanza patterns, rhythm schemes) widely used in ancient times. I was doing historical research into olden types of wordsong while learning about the histories of ancient cultures. No snapshots, only snapjots. Egypt poem 2 The Art of Living (Necropolis at Sakkara) Egypt poem 4 To Akhenaten Greece 22 Eyes, or the Fortunes of Hellenism Greece 25 A View of the Acropolis Turkey 32 Derinkuyu Underground Turksy 39 Domabahçe Palace