Poetry Contest Submission - "Temple"
Shakespearean Sonnet
Sixteen pillars. Fifteen pillars stand
Where the chief of Javan's gods held court
And the sixteenth lays upon the land.
Upon once sacred ground, vermin cavort.
Was there no Perseus, no Heracles,
No Zeus-born hero to prevent the sack
Of her who'd sacked the world by such as these,
Such baseborn men that hell should spit them back?
Greater than the Parthenon upon
A time, 'til the rude invader came.
Air, now, forms the thunder god's salon
While sixteen pillars rest on Gaia's frame.
If gods there were or are, their only fane
Is silence, which no mortal can profane.
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