h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Walter,

I have your poem for you hope you like it.

Times of Knight and Kings

I need someone who can walk with me
And talk with me, to explain some of the things
About how the people lived their lives,
In the time's of knights and kings.

Someone who can introduce me to Plato,
Aristotle, Socrates and Ptolemy,
To talk with the great men of learning,
About their many and varied discoveries.

To take me among the Roman ruins,
And show me where I need to go
To teach me how to be a senators wife,
And the things I long to know.

To walk among medieval towns,
Where the knights on steeds parade,
Where damsels are in distress,
Because their men have gone on crusade.

To rub shoulders with the philosophers
And the poets and artists renowned,
The astronomers and scientists,
In the salons where the men of learning are found.

I need someone who will walk with me,
And understand about the things,
The way that peopled lived their lives,
In the time of knights and kings



Moondancer

Moondancer,

You take my breath away. How on earth to you get to be so lyrical and evocative? This is just SO right. I just so desperately want to be able to act as a guide, and be guided, go hand in hand with those who like me want to explore and experience the sheer spellbinding magic of history.

I cannot be the first to tell you that you have a great gift. But thank you. Thank you for sharing it with me.

My cousin sent me a poem just the other week. It was about our childhood, and my mother, and it saddened me immeasurably. No-one else ever wrote a poem for me. Yours touched me with a lot of things, but nary a trace of sadness.

Can I please put this on my h2g2 home page?

Clive

Hi Clive

Of course you can put it on your page. I wrote it for you

Moondancer

Moondancer,

Watch my space.

Walter