Encounters

 

This is a sequel, part three of four, of the poem cycle that I began last week

http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2022/12/anticipations.html

http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2022/12/this-is-sequel-part-two-of-four-of-poem.html

It's a continuation of a non-traditional advent, evoking the spirit of the Magi. This poem evokes the encounter with King Herod, an encounter with naked, violent, and war like power. The imagery may well evoke Ukraine suffering under the ambitions of the Russian President Putin. That is deliberate.

Encounters

Mother night, a midnight clear
That frosty night so cold
The shadow of trees upon the earth
A darkening lust for power and gold
No peace on earth, the strife of men
Evil rulers, who would be king
Devastated lands in stillness lay
As mourners lament sing

Still through the blazing skies they come
Deaths banner is unfurled
And still the deathly music roars
O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains,
Like a dragon taken wing
And still the crash of rocket sounds
As mourners lament sing

And yet, beneath life's crushing load,
When lanterns flicker low
We still see the starlight way
With painful steps and slow,
And now approaches midnight hours
Night owls upon the wing
We rest beside the weary road
And joyfully will sing

For the night is now fast hastening on
The moonlight growing old
And a sacred circle though the years
Shall gift a time foretold
When peace shall come over all the earth
And dawn’s new light shall bring
And the wheel turns, on goes the song
Which we will joyful sing