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Satan Bug Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Landscape & Nature Photographyon: September 12, 2020 at 11:31 am
I’ve named him COVID-19
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?David
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This topic was modified 3 years, 12 months ago by
David Eckels.
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Christopher Sanderson. Reason: Removed formatting tags
Re: Satan Bug Slouching Towards BethlehemReply #1 on: September 12, 2020 at 11:33 amObviously the formatting is screwed up. Sort of defeats the purpose, but then again, “things fall apart” 😉
David
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Christopher Sanderson. Reason: Removed formatting tags. Please use the Text field when pasting text, not the Visual
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Re: Satan Bug Slouching Towards BethlehemReply #2 on: September 12, 2020 at 1:54 pmCool shot.
Kevin Raber
Owner and Publisher of photoPXLRe: Satan Bug Slouching Towards BethlehemReply #3 on: September 12, 2020 at 2:28 pm<p>Thanks, Kevin. I guess the formatting got straightened out. Thanks.</p>
David
Website and blog: www.DavidEckelsPhotography.comRe: Satan Bug Slouching Towards BethlehemReply #4 on: September 12, 2020 at 4:27 pmI’ve always preferred the term leaf-footed bug or assassin bug, but yours works better with this image. Thanks for sharing your poem!
Mike.
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