Idol Of The Holy Fool
© Surazeus
2025 02 13

I hear the yellowhammer bird reply
with platitudes of stoic principles
to the crippled angel with tattered wings
who limps down the signless road of false hope
after blowing up bridges to strange worlds
where the fool makes the whirling world stand still.

The old woman under the maple tree
tells the laughing turtle with raspy voice,
"The most accurate measurement of courage
is how people endure harsh suffering
when they are the most vulnerable and weak,"
then gives last jar of honey to the fool.

The half-blind man with weed-entangled curls
paddles small wood boat on the purple lake
and explains to the swan with diamond eyes,
"Only cowards hide behind silence of faith,"
then dips his hand in waters of the mind
when the fool throws his book into the water.

The red tyrannosaurus with gold eyes
blinks when steel bullets pelt his heaving chest,
so he grasps green army tank with sharp claws
and hurls it screeching into the swamp pool
where soldiers scream in horror as they drown
clutching gold idol of the holy fool.

Raindrops glisten on the clear window glass
as wind blows clouds across the desert plain
where lizards scurry among the sagebrush,
and devils make deals with poor guitar players,
painters, and poets to sell them world fame,
laughing as they all bow before the fool.

The young girl in pink boots and green raincoat
runs along wood fence in the rain-wet field
as she flies her kite over the white church
where blind angels sing hymns of ecstasy,
then gazes entranced in sea-silver eyes
of the fool who recites love poetry.

Sitting upstairs in the small theater
to watch the play Our American Cousin,
Lincoln tells the ghost with the laughing gun,
"Those who deny freedom to other people
deserve it not for themselves," then he spreads
vast wings to fly to Heaven with the fool.

Watching finches on Galapagos Islands,
Darwin explains to the tortoise of truth,
"Freedom of thought is best promoted by
gradual illumination of human minds
with follows from the grand advance of science,"
while the fool writes his words in the notebook.

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Orpheus and Rimbaud walk the summer-hot road in the rugged hills of France while chatting about the Dionysian energy of poetry.

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