Thursday 1 March 2018

THE GODDESS ON PORTHTOWAN BEACH: A NEW POEM...

The Goddess On Porthtowan Beach 




She had been carved in a cliff-face
By an ancient Egyptian stonemason, 
Surely?
Her hippopotamus and feline features
Left leering at tides,
The swollen belly sculpted and stylistically designed…

And thus the goddess Taweret served in this foreign place,
As a sentinel, a bastion, 
Certainly;
For the secrets of millennia she invariably hides,
This pregnant deity, beautifully refined…

Pete Ray
February 2018

The angle of the exposed cliff-face took my eye and I could see Taweret somehow, the pregnant Egyptian goddess usually associated with protection and childbirth.


She was part hippo’, part lion and part crocodile, all creatures feared by the ancient Egyptians…

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