Snake Eagle Thinking Path – Geoglyph
34October 16, 2015 by petrujviljoen
Kindly visit Site Specific, South Africa and be astonished. The organisers invite written meditations based on the work – all details are available on the site. Spend some time now, won’t you?
Following is an acrostic poem I made.
Spaced rhythmic pace, step quietly
Nature’s temple welkin canopied
Ancestral universe mapped
Knowing the Way without a name
Evolving spirit journeys the distant interior
Ever undulating on
Archaic stone – limned
Globes, in this wise realise
Light – the wind has taken shape
Exultant vibrancy of Life, of Earth
Timeless pulse of motion – I
Having stepped: a quest
I – the private reason –
Nurture the sacred flame
Keen with the breeze
Intuit
Nascent strength
Grasping the inner life
Perfect return to enigmatic creation
Artless designation
Time remains silent
Here be healing
Petru J Viljoen
16 October 2015
I linked this work to Dverse.com for the Open Link Night. Visit to read other people’s contributions.
petrujviljoen 
Your poem has a meditative quality to it…jus like the snake eagle walking path
Thanks Bryan. If you visited the site you’d see an invitation to write a meditation in response to the landart. Kindly do one yourself and email it to them.
What is really amazing about these cosmic works of art is beyond their huge size. If you ever have tried to do large art (I painted scenes on scrims for theater), you realize that it is nearly impossible to gain/get perspective without moving away/up from the work; that’s why the UFO-ologists believe there was alien intervention/coaching. Something to ponder. I like your lines
/nascent strength/grasping the inner life/perfect return to the enigmatic creation/.
One can see how this artwork was done, but how did the previous artists (if that’s what they were) make those huge drawings on the land and how did they get so perfect without the benefit of an aerial view? And if they did have an aerial view how did they get up there? A balloon, which is an older invention than we think. I take things from memory and can’t point to particular sites right now. Easy to google (if one had a strong internet connection). 🙂 Thanks for visiting and appreciating the work, mine and the artists that made the Snake Eagle.
I like what you did with the acrostic, i have seen several acrostic poems but the seem forced. Yours, however flows well and I really like your last line: there be healing here.
Thank you so much for stopping by my poetry blog!
I enjoy reading other people’s work and am equally pleased, obviously, when people visit my site. Speak again next time.
I like the effect of eternity you create by saying time is silent. Well penned.
Thank you!
Hope you don’t mind if i share yoUr path..
Sunsets gleam through eagles WinGs..
Nature’s beast of feathered SinGs..
Ajoy beak says.. spiraLinG Son..
Kepher soaRs foRce ONe..
Eagle eYes Blue skeYe..
Earth replies
All Alive..
Grow
Life
Earns
The Valley
Has new breed..
Indigenous
Nature
KinG..
Ink of path
No plan
GOlD
PainT
ALL iS..
TiMe N0W
Hath InNate Sprite..:)
Do I mind? It’s what it’s for. I’ll send this off to the organisers of this landart project for their collection of meditations/poetry about the monumentous work they created. Hope you don’t mind?
Smiles friend.. In general I find it best to walk with soft feet and humor in poetry lands.. I share heart and never own it.. I am honored you feel my words worthy of reading.. so sure feel free to share as I am free my friend.. Smiles again.. and thanks for the inspiration.. It sparks joy for me..:)
Good. That’s settled. I’ll copy it down and send it off. Stay free – not easy to achieve and sustain.
True.. And thanks my friend.. I will travel the no name path of Eagle’s WinGs.. SMiles..:)
Submit another meditation in response to the Snake Eagle artwork. You’ll find the email address on the Site Specific web page. 🙂
Yes friend I will aim to do that..:)
I read your epic poem on your blog and appreciated the photos. My internet connection won’t let me post a comment on your blog, so herewith. Amazing work! A life recorded
Thanks my friend..:)
This is a wonderful acrostic poem. I work within a native community and I especially appreciate the last line of your poem.
“Time remains silent
Here be healing”
We have so much to learn from and about all ‘primitive’ or ‘native’ societies and nations that live on a different level than most western minded people.
I am always amazed by these works of art that can only be seen from the air. It just blows me away how they did it and executed it and the thoughts of who they thought would see it. I majored in Cultural Anthropology and minored in Native Archaeology and had the extreme blessing of studying the petroglyphs made by the Indigenous People here in the US. So beautiful and how they speak! Your acrostic with this example is incredible.
I really appreciate your input. Going back to learn from cultures that came before us is a way forward in living a balanced life.
Incredible work here.. i m seriously awed…!!
Good! It is incredible stuff. They do it mostly on their own resources too!
I admire the acrostic and the spiritual healing of nature ~ I will checking out the link ~
Thanks for sharing ~
And do add a written meditation if you’re up to it. Thanks for visiting.
The great mystery is why people worldwide were compelled to create these art forms. I find the whole thing fascinating…thanks for the link. I took some time and read up on these things. Your acrostic is a lovely homage to a most amazing creation.
Gayle ~
Thank you! I was scared it was too sweety pie. Hope people respond with meditations of their own to the Eagle artwork, as per the invitation and email address (thinkingpath@sitespecific.org) on the Site Specific site.
No, not too “sweety pie” at all. I’m glad that you shared this…thanks.
The art in creating that eagle is fascinating – that continuous line – like a thought, meandering. To us an acrostic to depict that thought seems exactly free, yet bound.
… ‘yet bound’ …
The eagle is such a powerful symbol, and has been used in so many cultures. I know here in the western United States it is an important totem among the American Indians. Our paper had an article yesterday about petroglyph that have been discovered here in Nevada that date back 10500 years. Mind boggling.
Indeed. South Africa boasts many ‘primitive’ art sites, mainly done by the San or Khoisan or Bushmen. (Same name for the same people). I learnt the other day it’s an ongoing process, extant shamans still do it. Fascinating stuff.
Wonderful allusion in the final line.
Hope you visited the site. Astonishing stuff on it.