Very well done Jadi. Still have your head in the clouds?....Charlie

Vibrantly descriptive with philosophical overtones! Takes reader to both the present and the past.

Yes, its a long journey on the evolutionary scale, 'Tracing ancient footsteps', 'the Inca trail','Synchronized with omnipresence''absconded with the key to glory'...yes, this is the history of this great civilization in nut shell lost on the scale of time.

What an interesting people and culture that have been lost too us except for the syudy of their ruin. Excellent, vividly descriptive verse paying homage to them and to our own desire to touch what has been lost. Outstanding!

You don't post a lot of poems JD, but when you do, man they're doozies. Excellent spiritual read. Should have read this to Steve Miller's Fly Like An Eagle.

one can only imagine the settings that enblazoned this passion on our parchments and it is a blessing as well as a curse to experience them vicariously through your pen.

Wonderful! Dizzy from the altitude of this one!

Awed by the ancients and the power of nature. Your verse captures the power and brings visions to the reader. Great read.

How did I miss this one? The Inca mythology and ritual, plus the location and feeling mesmerize. This is like taking a trip along with you, without actually being there. Fascinating, as usual.
~Chelle~

Thanks for the mental trip, it was invigorating.

Thank you for this trip into the clouds via an ancient people. "tethered to the next dimension" - excellent!

"Intihuatana stone" a specific ritual stone of the Inca's "hitching post of the sun," is our guide through the "terraced labyrinth" of the poem. Just as the stone is to point directly at the sun on the winter solstice, so for us it points to the glowing light of the poem's allure. It was in midwinter that the Incas would gather at the stone to "tied" the sun to the sky, to ensure its continued progress across the heavens... and so we touch our forehead tight here to transcendent meaning for our journey. We follow this poet, "tracing anciet footsteps" measuring in "klicks" (kilometers) distance carved and set in stone, and related to the heavens. Now the scene in "crystalic" beauty the ancient lanscape illustrated, thrilling "paradigm" moves us, anchors us,"where alpacas graze" to this spiritual place. The sense of being "Synchronized with omnipresence" is strong here, and centers the poem, links it from past to present. The feeling of a deep timeless link to the past and to timelessness emphasized in many details here--the "Quenchua" even much older than the Inca civilization. All points skyward as our personal "hitching post" "tethered to the next dimension" so as we may walk with this poet in this high ethereal world, "cognizant"ly "cloud" walking with him. Beautiful.