The Amazing Tale the Old Stone Sphinx Never Told

The Amazing Tale The Old Stone Sphinx Never Told He walking softly repeating deep silence to the grass Waterfalls gracefully wore away broken heart and stone They invaded, full of dead vigor and obstinate mass And maddening midnight the one- legged king slept alone Nature held true to course and applauded the dying wheat. While the tyrannical wind swept across the sad pregnant hills Chaos and silence roved far and with nothing to eat Except the panic and red paint the heartland over spills Never mind the beast with its aggressive dancing about Nor the bashful ghost that eats away the damn racing time Therein caldron lies temptations crying with wounded shout And the false prophet yells out dying here is not a crime. He walked back to survey the revolution in its start. He told father time, do not worry, I have her in my heart. Robert J. Lindley, May 1st, 1976 Sonnet