Hi all. This is a poem by Robert Bly about the goings-on at the Bohemian Grove during the Vietnam War (depicted in the photograph below). This poem was first published in 1968. — efc<\/p>\n
I<\/p>\n
It is a clearing deep in a forest: overhanging boughs
\nMake a low place. Here the citizens we know during the day,
\nThe ministers, the department heads,
\nAppear changed: the stockholders of large steel companies
\nIn small wooden shoes; here are the generals dressed as gamboling lambs.<\/p>\n
II<\/p>\n
Tonight they burn the rice supplies; tomorrow
\nThey lecture on Thoreau; tonight they move around the trees;
\nTomorrow they pick the twigs from their clothes;
\nTonight they throw the firebombs; tomorrow
\nThey read the Declaration of Independence; tomorrow they are in church.<\/p>\n
III<\/p>\n
Ants are gathered around an old tree.
\nIn a choir they sing, in harsh and gravelly voices,
\nOld Etruscan songs on tyranny.
\nToads nearby clap their small hands, and join
\nThe fiery songs, their five long toes trembling in the soaked earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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