Saturday 25 April 2009

Pompeii August 24th AD 79

AM

The city bustled

with gossip and news;

Vesuvius throbbed


PM

Escape? Where to? How?

Fear pulsed now as darkened skies

breathed gassy poisen.


EVENING

The city, news, life

are quiet now; buried. Time

entombed; wonder born.





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