The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

-W.Shakespeare

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Imagine This Fantasy, Please

Behind the sleeping giant
Whose slumber looks of stone.
There is the dragon's breath defiant
That whispers from Imagination's throne.

Before the mechanical clock
Struck the doomsday hour.
The child's eye did flock
To a hidden kind of power.

The eye in the sky does mock
The memory of the Fantasy.
Depleted is Imagination's stock
For we have sunk it into the sea.

Like sunken treasure with lock
Now rusted shut in its watery grave.
The fathoms of Fantasy lack
The proper gauge to save

Imagination from the black
And deep requiem of the sea.
The scientific attack
Has made the mythic monster flee.

For now the Supernatural, see,
Surrenders to the Factual plee.

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