IMMORTALITY...!!

Day 751, 09:01 • Published in Indonesia Indonesia • by kardjodimedjo


The Phoenix Bird, does you not know him?
The Bird of Paradise
the holy swan of song!
On the car of Thespis he sat in the guise of a chattering raven
and flapped his black wings
smeared with the lees of wine
over the sounding harp of Iceland
swept the swan's red beak
on Shakespeare's shoulder he sat
in the guise of Odin's raven
and whispered in the poet's ear
“Immortality!”
and at the minstrels' feast he fluttered through the halls of the Wartburg...