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Epiphany

Writer: Stephen KingsnorthStephen Kingsnorth

After “Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot


This was the first, met spoken Word,

of players demythologised.

Epiphany to me at least,

a caravan entrenched in sand,

as seekers of new star bogged down,

of graphic Zoroastrians,

who took the hump, cold comfort nights,

their awning dawning, wake up call.


Did Matthew - wise adopted name -

write for a readership of Jews,

that gentile flock towards their God,

or was it universal claim,

that aliens saw where others blind?


Ariel view, tense future past,

the end of magic in three trees -

so Sycorax might testify -

as this old sage finds death awaits,

cribbed lines, divines who wrote before,

travelogue printed just in time.


The numinous unstable fare

if God incarnate born to die.


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3件のコメント


不明なメンバー
2024年1月08日

Love the Tempest reference - and a great embedded rhyme in "Hump" "Comf ort" Bravo

いいね!

Jarlath Busby
Jarlath Busby
2024年1月07日

Your enigmatic style compels me to ponder and repeat read (admittedly with Doctor Google in hand). Great stuff.

いいね!

Nigel Smith
Nigel Smith
2024年1月06日

A lovely read Stephen, the delight of the familiar looked at from a different angle, the word-play, a smattering of quirky, finishing with an extra 2-line ponder. Thank you mate!

いいね!
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