Guest Xradion Posted June 3, 2002 Report Posted June 3, 2002 I fly through the sky Like Icarus, my wax wings Melting in the morning light. I land like Lucifer In the deepest depths Of the sea. I have caused my own Downfall, for I am The morning star, Cast down like a comet From the heavens. I’m caught up in a Perpetual apocalypse, As I watch Christ crucified Over and over by His own people. Cain kills Able A million times Babylon falls, The weak inherit the earth, And the foolish believe It To be the end. I am not a believer of prophesies, Yet I see them fulfilled All around me. Over and over again The wheels of the machine Turn. Trapped in celestial cycles Like bikes going against traffic And watching everyone crash In burning blazes to try to Avoid them. Are we doomed to repeat Our past mistakes? Is history The study of the Pastpresentandfuture? As the coin is tossed Into the air, heads And tails become indistinguishable From one another. And I pray for the Minute flicker of probability That the coin lands on edge. Xradion, The Horny Druid, Scholar of the Ancient Arts, Holder of the Eye of Odin. "The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream." -Wallace Stevens "When at home, do as the Homans do." –Xradion
reverie Posted June 3, 2002 Report Posted June 3, 2002 hmm, brings to mind old solomon... In either the song of songs or eccesiaties...(i'm rusty) "verily, verily all is vanity... There nothing new under the sun...) revery the dreamlost
Gyrfalcon Posted June 4, 2002 Report Posted June 4, 2002 And the Wheel turns, and Ages come and go... In an age that once was, and will be once again, called the Third Age by some, a wind blew from the mountains... that wind was not the beginning, for the Wheel had neither beginnings nor endings, but it was a beginning... Heh, Robert Jordan delivered from my memories, which means its off. But your poem brought how he always starts his books to my mind- a single being watch the world spin through the ages, watching humanity repeat its mistakes over and over, and hoping, straining for a single age where humanity will break free of its pattern and do something... different. *applauds*
Rahsash Geldich Posted June 4, 2002 Report Posted June 4, 2002 If you'll beg pardon while I quote myself- "we claim we learn from our mistakes But we still let the same venom come And say there were different snakes" Or some such thing like that (Sorry, its a bit early for me) Very invoking of the backgrounds with the names as well as their purpose, such as the flight for freedom of Icarus and the greed in the story of Cain and Able. Very nice. WoT Rules! Even though we would like to actually have a finished series, and a non-cliffhanger book... Ah well, such is life
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