Skilled in magic and
funerary matters,
Thoth is the moon
god of Egypt and
sacred to him is the ibis.
Long after sunset
I saw seven ibises
fly in a line,
low over the waters
of the Nile.
They followed a path
laid down by the moon
to bring them home safe
to Thoth.
Alone out of time
in my mind’s eye
still they fly
as they always flew
low, over the Nile
in single file
homeward to Thoth, who dwells
in a beautiful house
at the further end
of the silver path to the moon.
Pete Crowther
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/meetings-with-egyptian-gods-thoth/
