Two poems: Ta Prohm and Siem Reip (Cambodia)
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Website design By BotEap.com devil intestines
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Website design By BotEap.comIntestines of demons-they
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Website design By BotEap.comthumbs and limbs, of the dead,
Website design By BotEap.comcoughed into his long
Website design By BotEap.comtrip back to hell…
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Website design By BotEap.com#2195 1-30-2008
Website design By BotEap.com The Grand Hotel at:
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Website design By BotEap.comAt the hotel, the waiter pointed
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Website design By BotEap.com“Look,” he murmured, “Jackie sat right here…”
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Website design By BotEap.comI left the Grand Hotel,
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Website design By BotEap.com“…the very Jackie Kennedy Hotel
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Website design By BotEap.comCross the street,
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Website design By BotEap.comfeet…) walked among the people in the park,
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Website design By BotEap.comI look at the stars
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Website design By BotEap.comat the age of fifty-three,
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Website design By BotEap.comhad a stroke, a heart attack
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Website design By BotEap.comairplanes, and here I am, in this
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Website design By BotEap.com#2196 1-30-2008
Website design By BotEap.comNotes (#2194/1-29-2008): In the year 2000 AD, my wife and I took a ten day trip to Cambodia, to Angkor Wat; We also visited Phnom Penh, and a dip in the Mekong. In the past I haven’t written much about my time or travel in Cambodia, not sure why, it was a great trip, and the people were friendly, the food was great, and the sites were great. Ta Prohm is a site that dates back to 1186 AD, right there. Of all the sites in Angkor, which is a large area, Ta Prohm has its own beauty, roots surrounding the temples there. The name is a modern name for the temple, it was originally called Rajavihara, located about a kilometer east of Angkor Tom, which to me is the tower gate, with faces, perhaps the most magnificent work of art in the Angkor complex . But nothing in this world is like Ta Prohm. Here you have trees growing out of the ruins, surrounding the temple, with their roots exposed. There were about 90,000 inhabitants in this area, at one time, to include dancers, priests, and common people, the stela records. The poem, of course, is not strictly about Ta Prohm, but rather about my time in the Angkor complex, which comprises a large area, and the main temple complex is Angkor Wat itself. But the roots seem to have caught my attention more perhaps because when I think of my trip, the roots are the first thing that comes to mind, then Angkor Tom and then the main temples, called Angkor Wat. During our stay near Angkor Wat, we went to the Grand Hotel to eat in Siem Reip, Jackie Kennedy ate there, pictures of him are everywhere, just to the left of our table there were some.