Disc World: Soapstone
Discs Found Thousands
of Years Later in a Dried
Up Watercourse
Millennia ago, before CDs
And DVDs, artistic discs were made
In India with carved motifs to please
Their owners. Birds were set into a braid
With animals around the edges. Bloom
Of lotus and of female beauty lay
Upon the surfaces. The central womb
Was not depicted in this disc ballet
But wombs were well implied. A wealth
Of animals was held in the designs.
Were discs for rituals of gods, or health
Of women? Parrots, peacocks, geese and lions
Were joined with a rhinoceros and birds
Of prey. The makers left no helpful words.