The Ambivolent Wizard

The Ambivolent Wizard


In the madness of the shadow

Eternity flickers in its cause

Dooming empty spectres

Of us all    Of us all


In the fertility of the farmland

Be not shaken by its pause

Embrace malleable moments

In us all   In us all


Bend not forward in such thinking

Step not backward by its flaw

Engage in constant surveillance

Between us all   Between us all


In the vision of the wizard

Hearts and minds and cowards fall

Leaving candy-coated fantasies

Of a clicking   And a drawl


In the hatred of the burrow

Idology mixes on

As the ash was once ash

And the dust covered all


In the sanctity of the skyline

Ideologies ascend and fall

Fear not, I've risen from the culdren's

Steam for all


And in the vision of the wizard

Hearts and minds and cowards fall

Leaving evil little fairies

And the wicked commanding all


BURN BURN

BURN BURN

Scorched Earth  winters come

The past The past

One lost One won

BURN BURN

BURN BURN

Son center  Center son

The past The past

One lost One won


Where was this done?


From the growls of the belly

Ernest values nature marks

Til the time of confinement

And experience and thought


With the numbness of senility

Curse the pigeons in the park

Til the time of concession

Raise a glass with sly remarks


BURN BURN

BURN BURN

Chlorine and dirt

The past The past

Scorched Earth  Scorched Earth

BURN BURN

BURN BURN

Disembark and learn

The past The past

One earn One urn


And from the time of the beginning

To its ending

Small to tall

In the vision of the wizard

Hearts and minds and cowards fall



Author's Notes/Comments: 

The following is not a slight on anyone's theology.  It is, if anything, the protaganist commenting,"there's nothing new here. Warefare or its idea will never leave."

My father, a career military man and graduate of the Naval Academy, pounded in my head we should be isolationists from day 1.  His brilliance is even more staggering years after his death.  In my simplicity I ripped from Auden, farmer Woo, military leaders, etc using a bafoon to comment - the wizard of Oz

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allets's picture

Clarity

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I always seek clarity in poetry and voila! I shall read on. Auden, Poesque, and a touch of Wallace Stevens m'thinks ~Allets~

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Started by playing guitar and

Started by playing guitar and writing lyrics. I can respect the structure of math.  Auden compared the burrow(the hole) Hell to madness and the sword of justice denied or delayed.  Check out William Blake and I shall check out Stevens