The Great Desert Kingdom of Peru (a Poem in English and Spanish)

Poeta Laureado de San Jeronimo de Tunan, Peru

In the spring of 2000, I flew over

The desert kingdom of Peru, The Nazca-Lines carve (or etched),

Bearing symbolic images (in

The desert sand), in the

Desert kingdom of Peru.

Our plane was but a hundred

Feet above this desert temple

(Perhaps a shrine); Streams of lines, carved out of

An ocean of dirt and clay,

(so it seemed), looked as if it