04-05-2016, 09:06 PM
REPRESENTATION
![[Image: Fig.-2-Demon-Downcast.jpg]](http://artinrussia.org/wp-content/uploads/Fig.-2-Demon-Downcast.jpg)
Isolate -- turn of the century
prostrate to past and present -- tears
rolling down windless slopes -- wings, loins
hacked, scattered -- off the immortal
I AM -- desiring no malice
seated, flying, fallen -- peacock eyes
filled with hateful flame -- with rueful power!
and skin glowing copper
turned tarnished tin --
Though my skin is earth
and Venus is my favored planet,
Saturn cannot conquer. There is
only Love within this fire,
misplaced, cracked, consuming,
yet nevertheless Hallowed,
for I AM nothing -- a child
still, enjoying -- sunset flowers
in the shattered forms of dusk --
![[Image: Fig.-1-Demon-Seated.jpg]](http://artinrussia.org/wp-content/uploads/Fig.-1-Demon-Seated.jpg)
WILL
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[paintings, second The Demon Seated, 1890, oil on canvas by Mikhail Vrubel,first The Demon Downcast, 1902, oil on canvas by Mikhail Vrubel, both to be found in The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. I was lucky enough to discover these in Russia, neither being Russian or in Russia -- bloody magnificent! and for the interested: http://artinrussia.org/dueling-demons-mi...-downcast/]
Isolate -- turn of the century
prostrate to past and present -- tears
rolling down windless slopes -- wings, loins
hacked, scattered -- off the immortal
I AM -- desiring no malice
seated, flying, fallen -- peacock eyes
filled with hateful flame -- with rueful power!
and skin glowing copper
turned tarnished tin --
Though my skin is earth
and Venus is my favored planet,
Saturn cannot conquer. There is
only Love within this fire,
misplaced, cracked, consuming,
yet nevertheless Hallowed,
for I AM nothing -- a child
still, enjoying -- sunset flowers
in the shattered forms of dusk --
WILL
--
[paintings, second The Demon Seated, 1890, oil on canvas by Mikhail Vrubel,first The Demon Downcast, 1902, oil on canvas by Mikhail Vrubel, both to be found in The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. I was lucky enough to discover these in Russia, neither being Russian or in Russia -- bloody magnificent! and for the interested: http://artinrussia.org/dueling-demons-mi...-downcast/]