Aladdin And The Magic Lamp

The sky is Aladdin

And the moon

His magic lamp

The lamp is rubbed often

By the snow-white fingers

Of the clouds

But the genies appear

Only on the ground

And the genies

Are all beautiful!

They bear that

Which flows from the heart

And through the pen

1.

The educated eccentric

Is excited

"The geriatric night

is poring over the

lexicon of the skies

through the moon-monacle!"

2.

And the granny who

sells her wares by the wayside,

"Now there's a fluffy white pancake

fried in the sky-pan downside up

by granny Sun."

And so granny called it pancake

And it panned the pan-like sky

3.

And the little boy

wished a wish that night,

"I wish I may

I wish I might

String the moon

And fly my kite."

4.

And the petal-soft heart

of the flower girl waned,

"I shall twirl my loom

from the passing clouds,

string it with starry blooms

And garland the moon."

5.

And the fisherman weeps for

The white fish those swim the skies!

"Who be that heartless fiend?

Who swam the milken moon-lake

And cast out the fish within?

Look at them thrash at

The floor of the sky!"

6.

And the tree-lover opens

The canopies of his heart

"The moon-tree's branches

Hug the sky

And sings to the starry-sparrows

a lullaby."

Night-time's clasp weakened

The corners of the sky

were streaked

with reddish clay

The sun began

to bustle about

And the people

grew busy getting lost!

The sky choked

at the smoke rings

of men and their machines

And aladdin...

fell back into his cave!