June Month of Poetry Project: Mysteries of History

I have decided to challenge myself to do a mid-year month of poetry (similar to what I do every January with my poetry group, but solo this time!) as I have been feeling the lack of consistent creativity in my life and would really like a stimulus to get that started again.

This time, I have decided to set myself a theme to see how that works out for me. I enjoyed writing a recent poem on the Stonehenge builders so much that I have chosen as my theme "great mysteries of history" - relatively loosely defined, but an organising principle at least. 

Starting from the position of ruling out unsolved serial murders (no Jack the Ripper, Tylenol Killer or Zodiac for me, thanks), I have a bunch of ideas floating around, but if anyone wants to add anything to the suggestion box, feel free! The key ones I have in mind at the moment are in the list below. NB: I know some of these now have plausible or even probable solutions, but none have been conclusively resolved and all remain fascinating.

  1. The Marie Celeste
  2. DB Cooper
  3. Roanoke
  4. Nazca lines
  5. Ark of the Covenant 
  6. Voynich manuscript
  7. Tunguska
  8. Isdal Woman (might do this one as a broader "mysterious unidentified dead folk" one and include Somerton Man, Peter Bergmann and Jennifer Fairgate)
  9. Harold Holt
  10. Lord Lucan
  11. Lost works of the Library of Alexandria
  12. The Sea Peoples
  13. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist
  14. The Princes in the Tower
  15. The ten lost tribes of Israel
  16. Dyatlov Pass
  17. The Lost Legion of Britain
  18. The Dancing Plagues
  19. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  20. Plain of Jars
  21. Yonaguni Monument
  22. Easter Island moai

First poem will be up on Sunday to start the month off! Hopefully this will be fun.


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