Tag Archives: Diogenes

NOW AND FOREVER

the army halts
is quiet as a mouse
phalanx, cavalry
they
     just stand

at its head
their young god king:
he dismounts

he knows philosophy
his tutor was Aristotle

but the man
in the barrel
sneers atchison praise
rebuffs with contempt

promised the Earth, only
wishes for the sky
light of the Sun
not to be plunged
into hero shadow

so many armies, conquerors
heading East, heading West
an unbreakable pattern
now and forever