The Ancient Ones Painting by Diana Perfect

The Ancient Ones

by Diana Perfect

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Title

The Ancient Ones

Artist

Diana Perfect

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas Board

Description

This is image was inspired by scenes at and near Arches and Zion National Parks.
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Eolian sands, how can I know your ancient winds,
That arranged each grain, now frozen in place?
Your dunes buried alive and so lithified
Into canyon walls that bear your trace.

Vast monuments you are, but for whom do you stand?
Continuing sculpture in this remote arid land
Glowing warm red in the golden dusk light
Strong silhouettes on a moonlit night.

Your bedded layers like pages in a book
Crumbling, laying open, inviting me to look
Far down the corridor of time and to see
When the Earth was not home to creatures like me.

True monuments you are, but for whom do you stand?
For the dinosaurs that lie in the nearly sand?
They lie where they fell on an ancient shore
In a vanished world, extinct forevermore.

What can I hope to find in this place?
Some truth, some answer, or an abyss?
Questions like these your presence demands
Great monuments you are, but for whom do you stand?