Three days there then,
That thing it hung
Hanged before the fume and spray,
Trussed and strung up by it's thumbs
It's heart a wailing drum
Of Mundi's fair World Memory lost,
Re-won
Thrummed in time
With the World's Autumnal hum,
Re-called,
In transient echoes of
The Neptunian refrain
Upon the piers and queues,
Of Man's paltry domain
Here now in gross victorious glee
Stand the triumphant Sentinals and Monoliths
Of Man's cyclic defeat and fecundity
Speechless in Mastery;
Stricken NOT
By Mortal's meager invocations
Nor Enochian Memory's trifling sums.
Lo!
There they scream in frantic ecstasy
Before the roiling god of Aeons Lost
And Humanity's defeat,
Screamed now, in repeat
Of forgotten hymns
Of Man's dark youth
Beyond the dens and dells of drearest thought
Of Death Rejected and Life Stolen away,
Upon the waves,
Of ebbing Lunar palsey,
Strident now, through the eyes of the accursed
Dreaming inhabitants of even the Gardens of Ibbiss
And their opiate haze'ed denouement in epiphany
Please tell me what you think
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confusing
it seems that you must be an english major...i am shamed to say that even after looking some words up, i am still not sure what you are talking about...my guesses...train hoppers hitch hikers, the fires of california, or people waiting at the gates of death...i doubt any of these are correct...what are you talking about? a strong write anyway.
*Leah
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The first section is describing a human or human-like being hanged by its thumbs as some sort of offering perhaps to allay the wrath of the oncoming oceanic deluge. The being is fearful;"its heart a wailing drum..." It is also an allusion to this entity being the last creature to remember the world from before the deluge which it had been offered up to stop and with each passing heart-beat, doom comes closer and the memory of the fair pre-flood world nears oblivion. "Mundi" being Latin for "earth", the World. He succeeds, at least in preserving some part of the memory the the pre-flood world and hence "re-won". "Thrummed in time with the world's Autumnal hum" refers to the memory and knowledge of those lost times and that lost world reverberating throughout time and memory hidden but ever-present to those who look and especially in this, the Autumn of Humanity's Ages. The poem then says "Re-called" which alludes to the people of today becoming more and more aware on some level at least of the reminders of the ancient world destroyed and lost and finding the signs of it all around, ruins and writings and such. "Recalled in transient echoes of the Neptunian refrain" refers to the ocean bringing all things full circle and keeping knowledge alive. Transient because it is ever changing and flowing and ebbing and Neptunian refrain being a poetic allusion to the soughing sighing song of the ocean which recalls us always to its embrace. Upon the piers and quays of man's paltry domain is a reference to how very small and limited our natural domain is, the land which is bordered by the majority of the earth which is Water and how upon OUR borders are the piers and quays. The section after this about the gloating monuments to man's failure and also survival are a reference to the ancient ruins and archaeological finds which are perpetually coming forward and which, while they do show man's ancient lineage and age, also show his repeated failure and degradation as many of the artifacts found are of such a technologically advanced character that even today we can not duplicate them and can not even begin to fathom HOW to! Such as bronze stronger than modern steel found at the ruins of Mohenjo Daro in the ruins of the Indus-Sarasvati Civilization's great civic center and hub. Or, the CARBON-FREE non rusting steel hammer found inside of a CRETACEOUS era piece of coal in Northern England. With the only smelting processes which we know today, that is an ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY. No matter what, we are always reminded of our mortality and the emptiness of human vanity by such things in their mute majesty and doleful triumph over the ages. Enochian memory refers to the Enochian Calls in the Book Of Enoch, purporting to be a book handed down from ancient times telling of life before the flood. The ruins of Man's past glory and might scream as gibbering idiots before the ghosts of the ancient past, the "Roiling God of Aeons Lost" Then the Ancient being which survived neither accepted death or kept life, but stole it from others in one form or another. All of this is seen in a drug induced fugue by the inhabitants of the dreaming Gardens of Ibbiss. . .
I really do hope this helps make some sense of my piece here and Really Glad that you've enjoyed it!
-Yours Truly as Always,
E!
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