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Post by Der Trommler on Feb 15, 2007 22:53:13 GMT -5
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Post by Der Trommler on Feb 15, 2007 23:02:02 GMT -5
Witch Hunt
part III of 'Fear' The night is black, Without a moon. The air is thick and still.
The vigilantes gather on The lonely torchlit hill.
Features distorted in the flickering light, The faces are twisted and grotesque. Silent and stern in the sweltering night, The mob moves like demons possesed. Quiet in conscience, calm in their right, Confident their ways are best.
The righteous rise With burning eyes Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies To beat and burn and kill.
They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness, too dangerous In our theatres and bookstore shelves, That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves.
Quick to judge, Quick to anger, Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice And fear Walk hand in hand.
A little Greek Mythos for you....
Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres
I. Prelude When our weary world was young The struggle of the Ancients first began The Gods of Love and Reason Sought alone to rule the fate of Man
They battled through the ages But still neither force would yield The people were divided Every soul a battlefield...
II. Apollo Bringer of Wisdom 'I bring Truth and Understanding I bring Wit and Wisdom fair Precious gifts beyond compare We can build a world of wonder I can make you all aware'
'I will find you food and shelter Show you fire to keep you warm Through the endless winter storm You can live in grace and comfort In the world that you transform.'
The people were delighted Coming forth to claim their prize They ran to build their cities And converse among the wise
But one day the streets fell silent Yet they knew not what was wrong The urge to build these fine things Seemed not to be so strong
The wise men were consulted And the Bridge of Death was crossed In quest of Dionysus To find out what they had lost...
III. Dionysus Bringer of Love 'I bring Love to give you solace In the darkness of the night In the Heart's eternal light You need only trust your feelings; Only Love can steer you right'
'I bring Laughter, I bring Music I bring Joy and I bring Tears I will soothe your primal fears Throw off those chains of Reason And your prison disappears'
The cities were abandoned And the forests echoed song They danced and lived as brothers; They knew Love could not be wrong
Food and wine they had aplenty And they slept beneath the stars The people were contented And the Gods watched from afar
But the winter fell upon them And it caught them unprepared Bringing wolves and cold starvation And the hearts of men despaired...
IV. Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind The Universe divided As the Heart and Mind collided With the people left unguided For so many troubled years In a cloud of doubts and fears Their world was torn asunder Into hollow hemispheres
Some fought themselves, some fought each other Most just followed one another Lost and aimless like their brothers For their Hearts were so unclear And the Truth could not appear Their spirits were divided Into blinded hemispheres
Some who did not fight Brought tales of old to light My 'Rocinante' sailed by night On her final flight To the heart of Cygnus' fearsome force We set our course Spiralled through that timeless space To this immortal place
V. Cygnus Bringer of Balance I have memory and awareness But I have no shape or form As a disembodied spirit I am dead and yet unborn
I have passed into Olympus As was told in tales of old To the city of Immortals Marble white and purest gold
I see the Gods in battle rage on high Thunderbolts across the sky I cannot move, I cannot hide I feel a silent scream begin inside
Then all at once the Chaos ceased A stillness fell, a sudden peace The Warriors felt my silent cry And stayed their struggle, mystified
Apollo was atonished Dionysus thought me mad But they heard my story further And they wondered, and were sad
Looking down from Olympus On a world of doubt and fear Its surface splintered Into sorry hemispheres
They sat a while in silence Then they turned at last to me 'We will call you Cygnus, The god of Balance you shall be'
VI. The Sphere A Kind of Dream We can walk our road together If our goals are all the same We can run alone and free If we pursue a different aim
Let the truth of love be lighted Let the love of truth shine clear Sensibility Armed with sense and liberty With the Heart and Mind united In a single perfect sphere
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Post by Der Trommler on Feb 20, 2007 8:30:12 GMT -5
Natural Science I. Tide Pools When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet A complete society
A simple kind of mirror To reflect upon our own All the busy little creatures Chasing out their destinies Living in their pools They soon forget about the sea...
Wheels within wheels In a spiral array A pattern so grand And complex Time after time We lose sight of the way Our causes can't see Their effects.
II. Hyerspace A quantum leap forward In time and in space The universe learned to expand The mess and the magic Triumphant and tragic A mechanized world out of hand
Computerized clinic For superior cynics Who dance to a synthetic band
In their own image Their world is fashioned- No wonder they don't understand
Wheels within wheels In a spiral array A pattern so grand And complex Time after time We lose sight of the way Our causes can't see Their effects.
III. Permanent Waves Science, like nature Must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same State of integrity It will surely serve us well
Art as expression Not as market campaigns Will still capture our imaginations Given the same State of integrity It will surely help us along
The most endangered species The honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world- State of integrity Sensitive, open and strong
Wave after wave Will flow with the tide And bury the world as it does Tide after tide Will flow and recede Leaving life to go on As it was...
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