Cyclopean Architecture Poem by Justin Reamer

What is New York City?
Filled with architecture of all sorts,
Buildings that are diminutive in height,
While others are colossal,
Dwarfing those that are vertically challenged.

The skyscrapers are a wondrous thing,
For how can man ever manage to build something
So grand and so huge like that?
Yet, skyscrapers are not as wondrous as
The other things that humans from
Ages and ages past have built.

The Romans built the Coliseum,
A huge entertainment spot that
Was a huge engineering feat.
It housed the Romans' hunger for
Entertainment by showing off
Gladiators and making executions
Go all about the day,
Each giving some sort of bloodthirsty,
Heart-wrenching disgusting thing go on.

The Egyptians built the Pyramids,
Which are far bigger than the Coliseum,
And were built way before the Romans
Were even thought of.
The Pyramids, with their triangular faces,
And their cubic bases,
Were burial grounds for the
Ancient Pharaohs,
The ancient kings of Egypt,
And they still stand today
Unlike the rest of the buildings that
Have collapsed over time.

The Greeks built their temples,
And those are still standing today,
Though they are not the Coliseum
Or the Pyramids,
Or the skyscrapers of New York,
But they are still quite amazing,
Housing statues of their gods,
Such as Zeus, Hera,
Aphrodite, Ares, Athena,
Poseidon, Hades, Hephaestus,
And others,
Which of all are standing large and lifelike,
Or more like larger than life.
They are amazing, too.

The Mayans, the Aztecs,
And the Incas of the Americas
Built amazing structures that
Still stand today,
For they were major cities
That had once been filled with people.
They were just as brilliant
As the Egyptians, the Greeks,
The Romans, and, of course,
The New Yorkers today.

The Celts built the old monument
Of Stonehenge in Great Britain,
And it has been standing for
A millennium now,
Which is amazing in its own right.

The ancient Mesopotamians,
Or the Sumerians,
Built major temples like
Those found in ancient Sumer,
Called Ziggurats,
Which house the statues of
Their gods,
Anu, Ishtar, Ea, Enlil,
And many others.
That one was built long before
The Egyptians, the Greeks, or the Romans
Were even thought of,
And it has been standing for over
Two millennia,
Which is amazing, also.

The Chinese built the Great Wall of China,
Which stands today,
Interminable,
And untraversable,
For it has been standing for more
Than a millennia and has been
Keeping enemies out for the longest time
Until airplanes were invented.
The Chinese were very brilliant, too.

Temples, mosques, and cathedrals,
All ancient in nature,
Dating from the Ancient World
All the way to the Middle Ages,
All stand in beautiful splendour,
Showing their great beauty
After standing from hundreds
To thousands of years.
These places of worship
Still stand today
As symbols of faith
And the civilisations of ages past.

Yet, many more things have been built,
Like Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower,
Victory Gate and the Taj Mahal,
The Leaning Tower of Pisa,
The Wailing Wall,
Where the old Temple of Jerusalem once stood,
The Empire State Building,
The Sears Tower,
And many more.
Man has showed his genius
And continues to do so
To this day.