Lord Of The Pens
© Surazeus
2012 08 01

The name of philosopher Anaximandros
in Greek means the Lord of the Pens.
Nabu is a great power-hungry wizard
who creates a powerful magic Pen,
and then forges nine other magic pens
and gives them to poets around the world,
but then his hand is cut off in a battle
when he sings better than proud Apollon,
and the pen is lost for thousands of years,
then a young man named Homer finds the pen
and writes two powerful epics about heroes,
then hides in a mountain cave thousands of years,
until Edward de Vere stumbles into his cave,
and takes the powerful magic pen away
after winning a poem writing contest,
and returns to England to write great plays
under the secret pseudonym Shakespeare
and the pen is lost again in the mists of time.
The magic Pen passes from hand to hand
of great poets and playwrights and novelists
over thousands of years, but noone knows
which writer has the Pen at any one time.
Fiery letters of a dark powerful spell
are etched on the gold side of the magic Pen
in Sumerian cuneiform which can be read
only when the Pen is filled with human blood.
Three Pens for the lyricists who pluck strings,
Seven for the satirists in their marble halls,
Nine for modernists who scribble free verse,
One for the Epic Poet at his oaken desk,
In the Land of Hellas where the Muses sing.
One Pen to note them all, One Pen to outline them,
One Pen to code them all, and in the silence write them
In the Land of Hellas where the Muses sing.