Night-Clad Comments

WOW! It's as if YOU are the Poet-Seer in this poem! But no, you are a poet blessed by the Muse to play the role of a kind of mystagogue, replete with a ceremonial robe, and your role is truly a grand and necessary one. It is one of restoring things to their proper places, to making a spiritual system operate the way it should. I count four tasks you fulfill in your mystagogue mission 1) you SING AS NIGHTINGALES DO. (John Keats is smiling in heaven!) 2) You sing of peace not war. Poetry will NOT serve the warlords' violent purpose.3) Your SONG, your poetry grants power to the people 4) Your poetry refines, even reduces the coercive power of the LAW so that it serves the people's needs. This is a grand poem addressing the social/societal roles of the Poet and the Poem! It is a necessary poem and you have fulfilled that necessity. The Way is set for other poets to follow, as they too put on the Muse's robe/mantle.