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Tag: Nefertiti

Posted on February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

A Brief Three-Line Poem Touching On The Possible Co-Regency Of The Potentially Now Delusional & Therefore Increasingly Unfit Akh-En-Aten & The Probably Unsettlingly Powerful Nafereti-Iti, With Her Given The Public Persona Of A Male Co-King & Future Sole King Due To Lingering Societal PTSD Over The Earlier Hat-Shep-Sut Incident

A man to take the crown.

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Posted on December 18, 2022

Nafereti-Iti: Book Two

The girl-child, become woman, leaves her childhood for the palace life.

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Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Hymn To The River

From beyond the Island Of The Elephant – realm of Khnum, Satet, Anqet – you flow from your
secret cavern-source to those bouldered, bord’ring shores!

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Posted on June 29, 2021

Nafereti-Iti: Book One

The final days of Nefertiti’s childhood.

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Posted on March 8, 2021June 29, 2021

Hymn To The City Of The Sceptre

Your wealth extends to awe all foreign lands! Your pious worship deeply pleases all our divine hosts, who bless our lives with Ma’at!

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Posted on February 22, 2021February 26, 2021

Thus Was The Girl-Child

‘Midst the dawn’s chill, she watched the night-time passing westward as she felt the tide of heat fall on her bare skin.

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