The Book of Fears
In the beginning
beasts fierce and mysterious
roved woods dark and deep,
fires reflected from
eyes of apes crouched in caves
awaiting some dawn.
The Book of Fears
reads like apes dawning
to conquer the dark,
the
woods and the beasts,
the land and the seas,
the heavens above.
Whole worlds have flooded,
scorched earth has risen,
woods and beasts survived;
the land and the seas,
the heavens and all below
survived the ravaging apes.
Peering from their caves
high in artificial cliffs,
apes watch in fear the dark
born of ancient nightmares,
the
ashen phoenix rising,
a burning new beginning.
Bob MacKenzie
Bob MacKenzie's poetry
has appeared in more than 400 journals across North America and as far away as
Australia, Greece, India and Italy. He has published sixteen volumes of poetry
and prose-fiction and his work's appeared in numerous anthologies. Bob has received
numerous local and international awards for his writing as well as an Ontario
Arts Council grant for literature, a Canada Council Grant for performance, and a
Fellowship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Georgia. With the
ensemble Poem de Terre, for eighteen years Bob's poetry has been spoken and
sung live with original music and the group has released six albums.