The anatomy of a clusterfuck

[Magnetron]

Or,

I swear I wrote it that way on purpose.



Nonetheless, guilty guilty guilty of passing off a Riddle as a Poem that is so riddled with not so obvious goings on that even I am still trying to recollect all of them after 8 or so years.

Rebelnations

Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of untold lies
Awaiting for his enemies to atone
After their silver Falcons cross the skies

Cast westward by King of Terror into flight
Tearing asunder mirrored monument
A forceful display of wicked might
Drawing forth a wary Eagle perched for descent

Enter the insatiable belly of the Beast
With ten horns
Rising up in the Middle East

A mockery of the One adorned
With a crown of many thorns
Long ago this was forewarned

Prepare for the bloodbath
Of the millenium
When brother hath
Buried the dagger deep
Inside each other

Marching across the desert sand
His people will go
Led by the Falsest of Prophets
Into the land of

Megeddio

Prelude to madness
By which the fabled were enticed
Be witness to the dawning
Of the third generation Antichrist

As he crushes nations into nation
Within his iron vice
This is the New World Order
Of the final Antichrist

Bow down before the one you serve
Sever loyal ties
Let old bonds be sliced

Here comes the armies
The armies of the Antichrist

 

[Magnetron]

I thought it would be fun to write an homage to quite possibly the most notorious poet ever based on book sales despite his inability to be poetic.

Nostradamus.

He wrote quatrains about future events that appeared in his mind during trancelike states, but went overboard on symbolism in these to obscure their meanings. His fear was that of the Church punishing him for becoming a source of guidance that the people could turn to and away from the controlled environment established with religion.

The fascination with trying to decipher his rather bland prophecies over the last 400 years have helped push book sales beyond that of the Bible.

A true homage would be a poem that in likewise dull fashion goes right over the reader's head. So, unless you are familiar with his prophecies, you probably won't make the connections necessary to see that it was an homage to Nostradamus more than anything else.

Rebelnations

Right out of the starting gate, the title was meant to get the reading thinking about nations here and there causing strife for the rest of the world. And, get the reader thinking about the Book of Revelations from the Bible.

Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of untold lies
Awaiting for his enemies to atone
After their silver Falcons cross the skies

Here we have the second George Bush becoming President of the United States. Despite the epitome of ignorance, he and his administration are fully aware that an attack from Al Quaida is imminent and there is a great likelihood of airplanes being use as weapons.

In retrospect, I wish I would have incorporated something about him being the "second coming" of a singular bloodline. That would have murked up the waters a bit more and reinforced the overall Armageddon concept.

Cast westward by King of Terror into flight
Tearing asunder mirrored monument
A forceful display of wicked might
Drawing forth a wary Eagle perched for descent

The attack comes from the East. Osama bin Laden in the Middle East to be precise. The target is the World Trade Center. And again, the Bush administration was well aware that an attack was coming.

Enter the insatiable belly of the Beast
With ten horns
Rising up in the Middle East

Here we break away from Nostradamous's typical style of double quatrains.

The ten horned Beast is from Revelations. Using the horn in the sense of a weapon, this is a very vague reference to all of the U.S. occupations in the region ready to be mobilized. Give or take, there was ( and could still very well be ) about ten of them.

A mockery of the One adorned
With a crown of many thorns
Long ago this was forewarned

You don't get much more ridiculous than a [airquotes]Christian[/airquotes] president flapping his piehole about Jesus and God being on the side of America in The War Against Terror .... if you are fan of acronyms, T.W.A.T.

Forewarned long ago by Nostradamous and the Book of Revelations.

Prepare for the bloodbath
Of the millenium
When brother hath
Buried the dagger deep
Inside each other

Enter the Moonbats and Wingnutz and all the extreme partisan shenaniganery erupting, especially over the Internets.

Marching across the desert sand
His people will go
Led by the Falsest of Prophets
Into the land of

Megeddio

Bush leads U.S. armed forces into dun dun duh Iraq. Megeddio being where the biblical Armageddon occurs.

Prelude to madness
By which the fabled were enticed
Be witness to the dawning
Of the third generation Antichrist

The foreshadowing of a power struggle like so many others in tales Biblical and otherwise.

The first and only substantial clue that this poem was more relevant to Nostradamus : the third anti-Christ. He mentions three major figures in his prophecies and many scholars have concluded that Napoleon and Hitler were the first and second. The Bible brielfy mentions but attributes the title anti-christ once or twice to no one in particular; there is no anti-Christ figure in Revelations.

As he crushes nations into nation
Within his iron vice
This is the New World Order
Of the final Antichrist

The third anti-Christ is George Bush and his administration trying to perpetuate Democracy even if by invading countries under false pretenses.

Bow down before the one you serve
Sever loyal ties
Let old bonds be sliced

More pertaining to extreme schism in politics.

Here comes the armies
The armies of the Antichrist

Plural, as in the anti-Christ harnesses the forces of other nations to aid him in his conquest.

In this scenario, there was alot of bullying going on by the Bush administration. If you aren't with us, then your against us. That type of nonsense. Again, a missed opportunity to incorporate that in.

 

[HarryHill]

Scratch, chop, rend, tear gigo

Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of dastardly lies
Awaits his enemies to atone
After silver Falcon's cross the skies

 

[Magnetron]

Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of dastardly lies
Awaits his enemies to atone
After silver Falcon's cross the skies

Dastardly .... devious ..... heinous ...... atrocious .........

Untold should still be in there, because it was known ahead of time that lies would be necessary in using any excuse to get boots on the ground in Iraq.

I also feel that their should precede silver Falcons, because falcons can be trained to zero in on a target. Al Quaida's weapon of choice being airplanes (re)directed towards specific targets.

Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of dastardly untold lies
Awaits his enemies to atone
After their silver Falcons cross the skies

Time has eroded my memory. I completely forgot about the falcon symbolism.

 

[twelveoone]

Right out of the starting gate, the title was meant to get the reading thinking about nations here and there causing strife for the rest of the world. And, get the reader thinking about the Book of Revelations from the Bible.

OK Magnetron you admitted you fucked up, you may not be drawing some lessons from it.

Does it deviate from what is expected?
I saw this and thought, yet another Great Beast...poem, and proceeded to read something that was the same from beginning to end, no change in tone, no change in direction, now if this was a 1:30 thrash metal lyric, well OK I'm hearing some of the words, that sound pretty much like, thrash, death, or black, what ev.

One of the easiest devices is a framing device, I'm not sure if you know it, so I posted a link. At least two poems here, one by Bronze and one by jd4george. Bronze's is "Blackberrie Sunday" I think, and he is here to correct me. jd4george had some on the top list, but I can't remember the title.

I will give you an example:
Suppose you had Dick Cheney's hand up the ass of the George puppet as a lead in.

Text of your poem.

And at the end, him cackling about riches for Halliburton.

As I said this is a very crude example. What it does do is avoid the straight line and throws the Text in a different light.

I don't recommend doing here, with this at this time. The poem has other problems, I am just trying to get you to think about the inherent boredom of a straight line drive.

 

[Magnetron]

The poem has other problems, I am just trying to get you to think about the inherent boredom of a straight line drive.

Have you read Nostradamus? Unless you are prepping for Doomsday, his prophecies are quite the snoozefest. Enter the homage.

 

[twelveoone]

Have you read Nostradamus? Unless you are prepping for Doomsday, his prophecies are quite the snoozefest. Enter the homage.

I have read translations, translating presents its own problems, I believe the original is written in four languages. The references are obscure. Do you know the histories of some of the deliberate translations, even more fun.

The world is a veil of illusion
mer de la merde succinctly put
Auferstanden aus Ruinen
und der Zukunft... ist kaput,

see throw a couple of German words in, everyone thinks you're a Nazi, Nein, Ich bin ein Ausländer

Translated :
shit of of luck in Alice Springs
the place where they fuck up
the whales, how? there are
no salt water crocs here.

Yeh, its a mystery to me too, but it is true, there are no salt water crocs there.

 

[Magnetron]

Just another key to their everlasting popularity.

Under the right conditions and without any marketing, boring can sell extremely well.

 

[twelveoone]

Just another key to their everlasting popularity.

Under the right conditions and without any marketing, boring can sell extremely well.

assume some form of irony, here? Now nostro does do one thing rather well, he allows you to get out something, depending on what you put in, something boring isn't that good at doing.

 

[Magnetron]

assume some form of irony, here? Now nostro does do one thing rather well, he allows you to get out something, depending on what you put in, something boring isn't that good at doing.

Yes, depending on who you are and your motivations, reading his prophecies can be very exciting .... despite them being as poetic as dirt.

 

[butters]

people found nostrodamus' predictions - ooh, fore-runner to predictive text? meh, shut up butters - interesting, not boring, simply because of the latitude for interpretation. by trying to decipher what he meant and ending up with their own understandings (however diverse) meant his "predictions" could be read a thousand and one ways to sunday... each person believing themselves clever for having puzzled out exactly what was being hinted at. clever stuff if you're selling it, much like horoscope books.

 

[HarryHill]

Yes, depending on who you are and your motivations, reading his prophecies can be very exciting .... despite them being as poetic as dirt.

but this is about you not him, are you a seer? and why here in the pobo?

 

[Magnetron]

but this is about you not him

I think it is safe to say it is more about him, given the fact that he wrote almost a thousand monotonous quatrains.

are you a seer?

I have had numerous pre-cognitive dreams.

Does that qualify as a predictor of the future?

and why here in the pobo?

I believe it started out with me discussing my own poem with myself until twelve entered the equation.

 

[Magnetron]

Just another key to their everlasting popularity.

Under the right conditions and without any marketing, boring can sell extremely well.

assume some form of irony, here?

Perhaps the irony is a bleed through from the other topic in which it was mentioned that the greatest artists were the greatest businessmen.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1002594&page=4

 

[HarryHill]

I think it is safe to say it is more about him, given the fact that he wrote almost a thousand monotonous quatrains.



I have had numerous pre-cognitive dreams.

Does that qualify as a predictor of the future?



I believe it started out with me discussing my own poem with myself until twelve entered the equation.

<<<<<< discussing your own poem is sorta like masturbation, I'll leave you to jackoff in private

 

[Magnetron]

<<<<<< discussing your own poem is sorta like masturbation, I'll leave you to jackoff in private

If only you knew how many personalities were bottled up in this noggin.

Orgy would be more precise.

 

[twelveoone]

Perhaps the irony is a bleed through from the other topic in which it was mentioned that the greatest artists were the greatest businessmen.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1002594&page=4

Bogus should kiss the asses of Warhol, Picasso, Dali, etc.
He doesn't.

Now did you happen to come across the propaganda uses of Nostro's prophesies esp during WW2?
There is a captain of greater Germany
and Hister is his name

Excuse my feeble attempt to rewrite to the tune of Gilligan's island...