"The Second Coming" Poetry Competition
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http://www.thephora.net/forum/showth...300#post682300
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http://www.pastorlindstedt.org/forum...c.php?f=7&t=67
I've always thought that William Butler Yeat's "The Second Coming" was the best political poem of the 20th Century, if not all time. I'll post it below. But what I want to do is to have a sort of competition for best dark poem for the 21st Century, full of doom and gloom and a wanting to whine about chaos overtaking the world. A sort of poetry competition.
Let's review the standard first. I have my own entry, of course.
Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri
The Second Coming
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=2995#post2995
http://www.arguewitheveryone.com/ent...mpetition.html
http://www.thephora.net/forum/showth...300#post682300
http://stumbleinn.net/forum/showthre...832#post168832
http://www.pastorlindstedt.org/forum...c.php?f=7&t=67
I've always thought that William Butler Yeat's "The Second Coming" was the best political poem of the 20th Century, if not all time. I'll post it below. But what I want to do is to have a sort of competition for best dark poem for the 21st Century, full of doom and gloom and a wanting to whine about chaos overtaking the world. A sort of poetry competition.
Let's review the standard first. I have my own entry, of course.
Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian/Aryan Nations of Missouri
The Second Coming
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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